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Google’s Search Liaison Danny Sullivan took shots from all sides on X from the niche site community but kept his cool by politely fighting back the negative comments.

Google’s ranking algorithm systems do not penalize AI-generated content if it meets the Search Quality Raters Guidelines, according to a study by Search Engine Land.

Google is experimenting with the Discover feed on desktop devices, marking a major change to its simple homepage that historically consisted of only a search bar.

Google introduced new features to its AI-powered Search Generative Experience, the ability to create AI images and write draft content.

OpenAI plans to roll out new features for developers next month that will make it easier and cheaper to create software applications based on its technology.

Google Bard product managers, designers, and engineers question the effectiveness and utility of the AI chatbot, messages from an ‘official’ Discord group show.

ChatGPT hit a record month in mobile app downloads but revenue growth is slowing down, indicating market saturation for its paid subscription service.

Google is experimenting with a lightweight version of the Search Generative Experience that displays a more subtle AI-generated answer box with an expand button.

Microsoft integrated OpenAI’s advanced DALL-E 3 text-to-image model into Bing Chat and Bing Image Creator for users to produce more realistic and diverse AI images for free.

Cybercriminals inserted malicious ads into Microsoft Bing AI chatbot leading to infected software downloads.

OpenAI, a leading AI developer, is considering developing its own AI chips or acquiring an existing chip company to cope with the high costs and limited availability of Nvidia’s GPUs and other processors for AI applications.

Google now allows verified Business Profiles to add social media links to their profile listing that appears across Google Search products.

Google released a core update that makes broad changes to its search algorithms and systems to help improve the reliability of search results.

A Wired article says Google may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get users to click on more ads.

Search Engine Journal conducted an experiment to find out how many ads are too many to show on a web page and if users spend more time on the site with fewer ads, which delivered unexpected results.

Google announced an update to its spam detection systems that will improve coverage in many languages and spam types.

Google updated its Discover documentation to include reasons why traffic from Discover can fluctuate up and down for web content.

Niche site owners are furious about the results from Google’s latest Helpful Content Update but SEO experts are not showing sympathy for the fallout.

Gael Breton redirected URLs of old posts that were removed from a website to a single web page without updating anything else and search engine rankings improved from #11 to #1 in Google.

SEO experts are sharing their theories and recovery strategies for the September 2023 Google Helpful Content Update after conducting analysis on negatively affected sites.

A sneak peek of the SMX Next agenda and speakers list has been released for the upcoming November 14-15, 2023 online conference.

Google has removed Bard chat transcripts from its search results after it was discovered that the AI chatbot was inadvertently indexing transcripts of private conversations.

Google announced the September 2023 Google Helpful Content Update has finished rolling out, which targeted SEO-first content.

Google Senior Search Analyst John Mueller said it is unlikely the September 2023 Helpful Content Update will be rolled back despite complaints by niche site owners.

Google Search Team analyst Gary Illyes said links have not been a top 3 ranking factor for some time but content and click data are important signals.