New York Times: How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? This link goes to a gift article. “A recent analysis of AI Overviews found that they were accurate approximately nine out of 10 times. But with Google processing more than five trillion searches a year, this means that it provides tens of millions of erroneous answers every hour (or hundreds of thousands of inaccuracies every minute), […]

Using Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search

Marginalia Search may well be the best open source independent search engine on the web. Here, we look at how it can be used to find backlinks to indexed domains.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/using-marginalia-searchs-backlink-search/

#MarginaliaSearch #SearchEngines #Backlinks #SmallWeb

Surveying search across British online newspapers

Currybet has a series of posts reviewing the search features of newspapers’ websites. This post summarises the results. He rates The Times, The Guardian and The Daily Mail most highly. I would agree with the latter two, although the last time I tried to search TimesOnline it was a complete nightmare.

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying

https://www.theverge.com/tech/900302/ai-seo-industry-google-search-chatgpt-gemini-marketing

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #seo #search #searchengines #aislop

Search Is About To Change In A Very Predictable Way

In early 2023 Microsoft's Bing search engine integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT into their user interface. It was a game-changing experience for us. Reflective Dynamics had spent 8 years building up Bing referral traffic to many of the sites in our company portfolio. Since Randy Ray and I founded the company in 2012 we haven't just offered SEO consulting for clients - we've managed a growing portfolio of affiliate Websites - and some personal interest sites - for ourselves.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #google #bing #quantum #ai #search #marketing

https://blog.reflectivedynamics.com/search-is-about-to-change-in-a-very-predictable-way/

Times of India: Aravind Srinivas’s Perplexity AI faces lawsuit over sharing users’ data without consent; company responds. “Perplexity AI has been accused of sharing user data with major tech companies – Google and Meta without proper consent. According to a report by Bloomberg, a lawsuit has been filed against Perplexity AI, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas accusing the company of allowing […]

Search Engine Land: ChatGPT ads are showing up – a lot. “In a test of 500 questions across the mobile app, roughly one in five questions in a new conversation thread triggered an ad at the bottom of ChatGPT’s response — always as a website link button, always tailored to the topic of the question.”

You know what I miss? Empty search results. It’s SO annoying not to find what I am looking for, because the #searchEngines decided to return the results for ‘similar’ search terms.

#webSearch #enshittification

YOU CANNOT REVERSE-ENGINEER HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORK FROM API DOCS.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #google #bing #brave