Spectral Capital Corporation has announced its acquisition of Quantomo, a leading innovator in quantum tomography. The move marks a significant step in reshaping the landscape of search engines as we know them, with promises to outpace tech giants like Google. [Read more…]
Alibaba International is set to transform the global sourcing landscape with the launch of its AI-powered conversational sourcing engine, debuting this September. This pioneering technology promises to streamline the sourcing process for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), making it more intuitive and efficient than ever before. [Read more…]
HIX.AI, a pioneer in artificial intelligence solutions, has announced a major pivot from its flagship AI writing product to a cutting-edge AI search engine. This bold move positions HIX.AI to compete directly with established AI search engines like Perplexity, leveraging its substantial existing website traffic of over 7 million monthly visitors, as reported by Similarweb. [Read more…]
Shoplazza, a leading enterprise in China’s cross-border E-commerce SaaS sector, has announced the launch of its self-developed engine aimed at transforming the landscape of online retail. With advanced technologies like big data and artificial intelligence at the forefront, Shoplazza is set to redefine how businesses establish and expand their global presence. [Read more…]
In a move that shakes up the digital encyclopedia landscape, octogenarian tech entrepreneur Joe Kerwin has unveiled www.Wikimedian.com, a revolutionary platform poised to challenge the status quo of knowledge sharing. This isn’t just another Wikipedia clone; it’s a comprehensive hub that integrates Wikipedia, Wikitravel, Wikiquote, Wikibooks, and Wikinews, providing users with a one-stop-shop for a diverse range of information. [Read more…]
Is Santa Real? That’s a good question. The short answer is that it depends on who you ask. That’s what I found out when I asked three different search engines and 3 different AIs. I asked ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Claude AI. Then, I asked three different search engines whether or not Santa is real, I asked Google, Bing, and Duck Duck Go. [Read more…]
In a groundbreaking move for OnlyFans enthusiasts, Fansearch, the trailblazing OnlyFans Search Engine, has officially made its debut, promising an enhanced and personalized journey for both content creators and their dedicated fans.
Fansearch isn’t merely a search engine; it’s a revolutionary platform, a digital playground redefining how enthusiasts connect with their beloved OnlyFans models. Far beyond a traditional directory, Fansearch aspires to be a dynamic space, finely tuned to cater to the distinctive desires of both creators and their avid audience. [Read more…]
In a dynamic business landscape where efficiency is paramount, SmarTek21 has introducted IntelliTek SearchAI, a cutting-edge document search solution enriched with generative AI technology. This innovative tool is poised to reshape operational efficiency across multiple industries, including Finance, Retail, Food Industry, Transport, Manufacturing, Real Estate, Healthcare, and Telecom. [Read more…]
A company named the Internet Corporation Listing Service (ICLS.net) continues to send out invoices in the USPS mail that are fake. The invoice they sent looks like the one I received above, which claims to be for $259 for a five year website search engine listing, from August 15, 2023 to August 15, 2028. the problem is that companies with websites (or even people such as myself) with domain names and websites should not pay for a search engine listing. Such a listing isn’t required that you pay, as the search engines such as Google and Bing actually will list your website for free. [Read more…]
Pulsr, the first-ever AI search engine for NFTs has launched. Pulsr is an AI search engine that contains over 5 million NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) across Ethereum, Polygon and Tezos, now openly available for discovery on its platform. Pulsr revolutionizes the NFT ecosystem by employing AI to automate, identify, and distribute NFT searchability Web3-Wide, effectively easing discoverability challenges for onchain collectors and NFT marketplaces. [Read more…]
Artlist’s AI-powered footage search engine for digital creators
Artlist, a creative technology company that is used by millions digital creators around the world, has launched their new AI-powered footage search engine. Artlist’s new advanced search engine is integrated into its product, helping creators to find the exact footage that they need more quickly than ever. [Read more…]
California Crane School, Inc. filed a class action antitrust case [3:21-cv-10001, C.C.S.I. v Google LLC] on 12/27/21 against Google and Apple and the Chief Executive Officers of both companies alleging violations of the Antitrust Laws of the United States. [Read more…]
There’s a new privacy-based search engine that just launched called GotConn. GotConn claims that it offers private search, no personalized search results, and makes use of no third party trackers. They also claim that it doesn’t track IP addresses and doesn’t keep user session logs–and doesn’t sell personal information. [Read more…]
SearchBlox, a company that provides enterprise search server tools, has launched SearchAI SmartSuggest, SearchAI Answers and SearchAI Personalization. SearchAI Answers uses natural language processing to provide a more intuitive search experience similar to Google’s Featured Snippets. Websites with a lot of data to search through can integrate SearchBlox’s tools into their internal site search to now provide better suggest, answers, and personalization. [Read more…]
New logo for Microsoft Bing.
Microsoft has rebranded its Bing search engine and given it a new name: Microsoft Bing. Most of us will most likely continue to refer Microsoft’s search engine as “Bing”, but Microsoft would like us to now refer to their search engine as Microsoft Bing rather than just “Bing”. Get it? I’m as confused as you are. [Read more…]
The search engine called WeLeakInfo.com has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice. WeLeakInfo.com was a website that sold access to hacked personal information and account logins. [Read more…]
Did the search engines, Google and Bing, today predict the Southwest Airlines’ emergency landing of Flight 1380 at Philadelphia Airport (PHL)? Absolutely not–but based in the Google and Bing search results, it appears that that they may have actually predicted that news. [Read more…]
I’ve been watching this interesting Google bug for over a year now. Turns out that Google thinks that I posted every single post 7 hours prior to when I post. Whenever I make a new post here on my WordPress blog, and go find the post in Google’s search results, Google ALWAYS shows that I posted it 7 hours prior–even if I made the post 3 minutes ago. [Read more…]
Do you remember the iWon.com website? It was a web portal that included a search engine, but you could “win” rewards and prizes for using their site, up to a certain number of times per day. The more you used the site the more you could win entries into the money that they were giving away each, and every day. A lot of people started using iWon Email years ago and still rely on iWon email to this day, but it’s going away starting on October 2, 2017.
I never really spent a whole lot of time on their site, but I remember having an iwon free account and at least entering something every so often. But I never really did win anything. Or maybe I did? I honestly don’t remember. As I recall, the IAC search (IAC owns iWon.com) was pretty much using another search engine’s results (I believe it’s was Google’s search results). [Read more…]
Well, here’s one that has got me scratching my head. Actually, I’m trying to decide if I should be scratching my head or doing a face-palm thing. An old post from Microsoft, which was a pretty important announcement, is being redirected to another URL. But wait, it actually doesn’t redirect. And then when you click the link that they tell you to, because it’s been moved to another location, you get another notice that you’ll be redirected to the new location. Oh wait, it doesn’t redirect you. Confused yet? You should be. [Read more…]
All the rage nowadays amongst SEOs is about Google’s featured snippets that show up in the search results. It’s that coveted “rank zero” that everyone wants to get. Not only can you rank on the first page, but if your content is good enough, then Google will pull (scrape) your site and feature part of your content at the top of the search results. [Read more…]
We all know by now that you don’t need to actually submit your URL to Google or “submit URL to Google”. Google’s crawlers typically are so good about crawling the web that you don’t need to tell them about a new URL or a new page. And, it’s been this way for years now. I’ve written about it time and time again. You don’t need to submit your website to the search engines, it’s actually free, and you certainly do NOT need to pay to submit your website. [Read more…]
The search engine Ask.com leaked its server log files, displaying all of its users’ aearch queries to the public. For a few hours today, you searched for a keyword on Ask.com, the public could see what you searched for. [Read more…]
Last week, I had the great opportunity visit Google’s headquarters, attend the Google Dance as a part of the SMX West conference, and talk with many in the industry. There were quite a few great tips that I picked up along the way. [Read more…]
Ever since Google started introducing Featured Snippets into their search results, I always thought of Google Featured Snippets as being informational and helpful. And, non-commercial. Well, today my opinion of featured snippets quickly changed when I saw the Google showing a featured snippet for this search query: banking equipment. [Read more…]
According to Gary Illyes, a Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, the Google search engine has no duplicate content penalty. In a Tweet on February 13, 2017, Gary said the following: [Read more…]
Have Chinese hackers stolen Google’s search engine secrets? Have they infiltrated the super-secret Google algorithm, allowing them to manipulate Google’s search results? According to a new book by Bill Gertz titled War and Peace in the Information Age, “Chinese cyber-intelligence services had developed technology and network penetration skills allowing them to control the results of Internet searches conducted on Google’s world-famous search engine. [Read more…]
Apparently, Google Answer boxes can appear in the search results when performing a site:domain.com type of search in Google. I find this kind of odd, as typically someone isn’t looking for an answer per se when they use the site: search operator at Google.
What is a Google Answer Box?
A Google Answer box is Google’s attempt to give you information in their search results about search query (keyword) so you don’t have to click through to a website to get the answer. Google predicts the answer to your question, scrapes the data from a website, and makes it show up at the top of the search results. This is often referred to ranking 0 (zero) position, before the first result. In most cases, Google will show Google AdWords ads before the answer box.
Here is an example: [Read more…]
If you are an SEO (or an SEO Consultant like me), then you should be familiar with Google’s Disavow Tool. Essentially you can upload a text file list of URLs or domain names that are linking to your website, telling them to disavow or ignore those links or all links from a certain domain name. But most of the time, we’ll disavow those links in Google but totally forget about uploading the same disavow file to Bing, as well. You’ve done all the work finding the links to disavow, identifying bad and toxic links, so why not upload the list to Bing as well? [Read more…]
In the past week, you probably have noticed that there is referral traffic from Lifehacker.com that is showing up in Google Analytics. You could also be seeing traffic from one particular Reddit.com URL. This is, in fact, fake, spam, or “ghost” traffic that you should ignore. The only purpose of it is to get you to visit one of those sites, typically trying to get you to copy/paste the URL and visit the website. [Read more…]
A bug in the Google’s search engine is causing false, old dates to appear in front of websites listed in their search results. This, in turn, is causing drops in traffic. Some are also reporting ranking drops, as well. [Read more…]
Back in February 2016, I wrote about Google’s new project, called Accelerated Mobile Pages, and how you can install a WordPress Plugin called the Google AMP plugin. The whole idea is to provide a new web format so that mobile users can view content that loads really quickly, even with a slow internet (mobile) connection. Initially targeted towards news publishers like Practical Ecommerce, we’re seeing a lot more public adoption of this new web standard. Google AMP is not just for news publishers anymore. [Read more…]
Google just launched a new smart messaging app called Allo. This app is certainly interesting–but do we really need yet another messaging app? After all, Apple just introduced a whole lot of new features of their built-in iOS messaging (imessage) when they launched iOS 10 just last week. [Read more…]
I applaud Google for launching a Google Analytics demo account, which anyone (with a Google Account) can access. Now we can use a real, live, Google Analytics account to play around with and look at the data. Quite often, it’s difficult to learn all of the Google Analytics features because some websites (in your Google Analytics account) may not have that feature. So this is all good. But there’s only one problem: even Google’s own demo account includes referral spam. [Read more…]
In a long dispute between Google and the State of Mississippi’s Attorney General Jim Hood, Google’s most recent request for a rehearing has been denied. The Times Standard reported back in April that the appeals court had overturned a ruling against the Stage of Mississippi. Google has appealed that ruling, which has now been denied. [Read more…]
Google Search Console’s Search Analytics feature, the feature that allows you to see the keywords, impressions, clicks, and average position of your website’s pages, has not been updated since May 3, 2016. Usually, Google allows verified website owners to see their search query data up to the past two days (the data is delayed two days). However, this week, the Google Search Console Search Analytics data has not been updated since May 3, 2016. [Read more…]
Google is showing multiple domain names in its search results when the site: command is used if domains pointing to the main domain include the canonical tag. Let me explain by giving you an example. [Read more…]
In the Google search results, I’m still seeing some alternative characters show up at the beginning of the title tags in some results. Looks like the cases I have come across are all search engine spam results, but the fact that these characters are even being allowed is a mystery to me. Let’s look at an example: [Read more…]
There’s a new search engine out there that apparently has ditched the legacy .COM, .NET and .ORG TLDs (Top Level Domains) and only show New gTLDs in its search results. Using Google’s Custom Search Engine, Newgle has done what no other search engine has ever done before: only show search results from websites on New gTLD domain names. Newgle is a new search engine using Google Custom Search that takes the legacy TLDs out of the search results. [Read more…]
Google has added a share button to knowledge graph entries to encourage us to search more at Google. Whenever you search using a desktop (not mobile) device, and you see a knowledge graph entry on the right side of the search results, Google is displaying a share button, like this: [Read more…]