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Google is getting even worse for independent sites: Air purifier reviews site HouseFresh wrote in February about how big media companies used product reviews as a cash cow on Google Search to the detriment of small sites. They say the problem has only gotten worse. 📉
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/2/24147152/google-search-seo-publishing-housefresh-product-reviews
A new report explores the economic impact of generative AI: Close to 80% of the jobs in the U.S. economy could see at least 10% of their tasks done twice as quickly via the use of generative AI. 📈
https://blog.google/technology/ai/a-new-report-explores-the-economic-impact-of-generative-ai/
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon’s new U.S. non-profit 🆕
The Man Who Killed Google Search: In February 2019, Google's ads and finance teams called a "code yellow" on search, because revenue was slow and people were not asking Google enough questions. Ben Gomes, then head of search, refused to make Google Search worse for profit. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it... 🤔
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story
Google is officially a $2 trillion company: Alphabet’s market cap briefly hit $2T in 2021 — but now it’s comfortably passed the threshold for an entire day. 📈
https://www.theverge.com/24140489/google-alphabet-q1-2024-earnings-revenue
Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents: The Replacement of Organic Search with Advertising by Google and Amazon and What That Might Mean for the Future of AI. 💯
https://oreilly.com/radar/rising-tide-rents-and-robber-baron-rents/
Google search boss warns employees of ‘new operating reality,’ urges them to move faster: Prabhakar Raghavan told employees to prepare for a different market reality, because “things are not like they were 15-20 years ago.” 🤨
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/google-search-boss-raghavan-warns-employees-of-new-operating-reality.html/
Google who? Gen Z is searching on TikTok, YouTube instead. 🔎
Gen Z is turning toward social media as a search engine, seeking quick, relatable answers amid dissatisfaction with Google's results. 👈
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/11/google-gen-z-search-engines-tiktok-youtube
#GenZ #GoogleSearch #TikTokSearch #SEO
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down: The publisher-focused platform is going away after less than two years. 📉🤔
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown
OpenAI Sees ‘Tremendous Growth’ in Corporate Version of ChatGPT: OpenAI’s Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap said there are now more than 600,000 people signed up to use ChatGPT Enterprise. 📈
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-sees-tremendous-growth-corporate-182314630.html
