About a year ago, Penske, which operates and owns Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Variety, and others, sued Google over its AI Overviews. Well, that case was dismissed because Penske failed to prove that Google entered into any formal agreement with Penske to sell its content in exchange for any amount of traffic.
About a year ago, Penske, which operates and owns Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Variety, and others, sued Google over its AI Overviews.
Pietro Valetto interviewed Nick Fox, Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information at Google. Nick Fox shared a snippet from the full video about the DMA changes that led Google to say it had to make the biggest reduction in search quality in its 28-year history. Fox said doing so made him feel “terrible” and “sad.”
Earlier this month, we learned a judge ruled that Google won’t be broken up over its monopoly ruling in its ad tech case. And now we have the full memo with the judge’s proposed remedies, including Google making behavioral changes.
Google Trends has added two new features this morning, explore maps and regional breakdown. Google said it “designed new interactive maps for clearer data storytelling…
Google Trends has added two new features this morning, explore maps and regional breakdown. Google said it “designed new interactive maps for clearer data storytelling…
Google has posted a job listing for a Product Manager for Content Automation, I kid you not. The job posting was posted about two weeks ago and is available for two Google locations, Boulder, CO, USA and Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
It looks like we are seeing some Googler accounts being taken over by sites that sell SEO services, or dare I say it, spammy or low-quality SEO services. Martin Splitt from Google let his X account go during the whole Twitter to X Elon thing and eventually that account was picked up by a search engine indexing service.
Google Trends now lets you compare up to 400 search terms across 8 groups of terms and up to 50 terms in each group. Previously, it was 125 search terms across 5 groups of terms and up to 25 terms in each group. That is a 220% increase, if my math is correct.
Google recently posted a new job listing for a GEO Partner Manager. The position calls for you to be responsible for the “transition Google’s engagement model from Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) discovery to formal ecosystem advocacy.”