OpenAI has added “more prominent” links to the ChatGPT browses the internet feature. After every section, ChatGPT added a hyperlink to the source, if you are using the browses the internet part of the tool – normal ChatGPT does not do this. OpenAI wrote on X, “We’re making links more prominent when ChatGPT browses the … Read more
Google has officially retired the “cached” link feature that allowed users to access archived backups of websites. The cached links were a longtime staple of Google Search, functioning as a way to view unavailable or changed webpages. “It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page … Read more
Ethan Mollick, an Associate Professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, posted on X about his disappointment with overall internet search. He wrote, “There is no greater way to feel the overall decay of internet search then to try to figure out when & if a new season of a show is … Read more
When The Verge published “The people who ruined the internet” on Nov. 1, it caused a shockwave across the search engine optimization (SEO) world. Their writer, Amanda Chicago Lewis, described us in a particularly unflattering way: “So who ends up with a career in SEO? The stereotype is that of a hustler: a content goblin … Read more
On November 1, 2023, The Verge released an article titled “The people who ruined the internet,” suggesting a growing perception that “Google isn’t as useful anymore.” According to author Amanda Chicago Lewis, “a lot of folks are unhappy, in 2023, with their ability to find information on the internet, which, for almost everyone, means the … Read more
The SEO community was in a buzz yesterday when The Verge published an entertaining, detailed, and long piece titled Did SEO experts ruin the Internet or did Google? The short answer is no, SEOs didn’t ruin the Internet, Google did not ruin the Internet, and the Internet is not ruined. But the article and author … Read more
This was a fun week, being that you all ruined the internet. First up Google shocked us with a new core update, the November core update. The Google October core update had a bug that impacted some sites’ performance in Google Discover. A new Google reviews update is coming next week; it will be the … Read more
Amanda Chicago Lewis thinks SEO pirates have ruined Google Search and the internet. And she’s going to force that negative narrative on us. No matter what. Yes, SEOs went beyond the world wide web – where you’ve optimized websites and content for nearly 30 years – and wrecked the whole internet. How? That’s still not … Read more
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