Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai recently discussed the future of search, affirming the importance of websites (good news for SEO). But how can that be if AI is supposed to make search engines obsolete (along with SEO)? Search vs Chatbots vs Generative Search There’s a lot of discussion about AI search but what’s consistently missing is … Read more
If you’ve always been in awe of folks using the Google Search Console API to do cool things, this article is a good read for you. You can use BigQuery with the GSC bulk data export to get some of the same benefits without requiring the help of a developer. With BigQuery, you can efficiently … Read more
In this blog, we will explore how we can effectively utilize Langchain, Azure OpenAI Text embedding ADA model and Faiss Vector Store to build a private chatbot that can query a document uploaded from local storage. A private chatbot is a chatbot that can interact with you using natural language and provide you with information … Read more
A new email was leaked as part of the DOJ investigation, this was from Jerry Dischler, the Vice President of Google Ads. The email was to Prabhakar Raghavan, who leads up all of Google Search including Google Search and Google Ads but also to the leads of the Chrome team. It seems to be asking … Read more
Search is hard, as Seth Godin wrote in 2005. I mean, if we think SEO is hard (and it is) imagine if you were trying to build a search engine in a world where: The users vary dramatically and change their preferences over time. The technology they access search advances every day. Competitors nipping at … Read more
August 24, 2014 | Posted by Shiri Berzack Google is a big fan of “Easter Eggs”, which are fun tricks they attach to certain search queries. Some of these only last for specific holidays or trends, but others are permanent additions to Google search. Recently Google has allowed query refinements for these easter … Read more
Bing Chat will soon allow you to copy and image to your clipboard and paste it directly into the query or search box. This will make it faster than manually uploading the image to Bing Chat. Mikhail Parakhin, Microsoft Bing’s CEO, said on Twitter that this feature should be live on Monday, August 28th. Here … Read more
![People Also Search For, Or Do They Always? How Google Might Use A Trained Generative Model To Generate Query Variants For Search Features Like PASF, PAA and more [Patent]](https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/06/patent-query-variants-lg.jpg)
I was checking out some patents from Google the other day and surfaced an interesting one that was granted and published on May 30, 2023. It was titled “Generating Query Variants Using A Trained Generative Model” and it definitely piqued my curiosity. It was originally filed in 2018, but was granted in late May. And … Read more
This past May, we saw a sharp decline in the performance for FAQ rich results across all our customers. The decline was first noticed on April 5 for FAQ rich results on mobile and subsequently affected results on desktop starting May 4. As a result, the clicks, impressions and CTR for many FAQ rich results … Read more
I don’t know if this is new (sorry Mordy) but Google is showing this blended local finder result set that seems to bridge two or more different but similar queries in the same set of results and then Google shows a line of text on what the local results are matching on. In the screenshot … Read more
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