The North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) is making waves in the education world by teaming up with Google to roll out no-cost AI and tech training programs across all 58 of its colleges. The partnership brings a golden opportunity for students to gain cutting-edge credentials in some of today’s most sought-after industries, including cybersecurity, data analytics, and digital marketing. [Read more…]
An SEO-poisoned site hosting a malicious .zip file. Image courtesy SOPHOS News.
In a twist that combines the internet’s love for cats with a malicious cyber scheme, Bengal cat fans in Australia have found themselves unwitting targets in a GootLoader campaign, according to SOPHOS News. This scheme used SEO poisoning, a tactic designed to manipulate search engine results, making malicious sites appear high in Google search results for specific queries. In this case, users looking for information on owning Bengal cats in Australia fell prey to a search-result ambush. [Read more…]
In my latest find, I came across the fact that there are are about 375 pages from the ChatGPT site/domain that are crawled and indexed in Google’s search engine results pages. In this latest example, shown above, there is a ChatGPT page, an SEO Audit AI tool page, that is ranking in Google’s search engine results pages. [Read more…]
Google is hitting the brakes on political ads for the upcoming U.S. elections. The tech giant announced it will temporarily halt all election-related advertising across the United States as soon as polls close on Election Day, November 5th, 2024. The ban applies to any ads that reference the elections, their processes, or outcomes. This policy will remain until further notice, with advertisers being alerted once the restrictions are lifted. [Read more…]
Back earlier this month, I wrote about how Hawk Tuah had infiltrated Google Maps listings, and schools were being renamed “Hawk Tuah”, such as Hawk Tuah High School. There were hundreds of them at one point. A lot of those listings have been renamed or new listings that were created have been taken down, I assume by Google. But now we have something more interesting–Hawk Tuah has infiltrated Google’s AI Overviews, as shown above in the screen capture I took after a search for “Hawk Tuah High Schools”. Google’s AI Overview also brings up MaxPreps.com, which, after I took a look, has some teammates and athletes showing “hawk tuah” somewhere in the bio or the name of the individual. [Read more…]
Google has just thrown down the gauntlet with its latest tech competition: the Photorealistic 3D Maps Challenge. If you’re a web developer with a knack for JavaScript, this is your shot to dive into the futuristic world of 3D maps—and possibly take home part of the $26,000 prize pool. [Read more…]