Google Updates Googlebot Verification Documentation
Google updated the Googlebot verification documentation to add guidance about IPs from GoogleUserContent.com
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Key Management Leader At Yoast SEO Steps Down
Yoast SEO transitions to new leadership following 2021 acquisition by Newfold Digital
Google Announces Internal Shakeup To Create Google DeepMind
Google creates a more powerful unit called Google DeepMind to accelerate the progress of AI innovation
Are ChatGPT, Bard and Dolly 2.0 Trained On Pirated Content?
Are ChatGPT, Bard and Dolly 2.0 trained on pirated books and is that even legal?
What is Auto-GPT And Is Now The Time To Freak Out About AI?
Auto-GPT is a new technology that leverages ChatGPT and GPT-4 to independently complete tasks by creating its own prompts
Google Updates Product Structured Data Documentation
Google updated the documentation for the product structured data to now include product returns policy markup
Google Reduces What Triggers Video Thumbnails In The SERPs
Google’s updated guidance announces they changed what will trigger video thumbnails to appear in the SERPs
Open Source Language Model Named Dolly 2.0 Trained Similarly To ChatGPT
Dolly 2.0: World’s first open source instruction-tuned language model trained using method similar InstructGPT, which underlies ChatGPT
Google April 2023 Reviews Update Focuses Heavily On Experience
Signals of experience play a strong role in Google’s April 2023 Reviews System update
Google’s Webspam Report Explains Role Of SpamBrain
Google’s annual webspam report highlights the incredible advances SpamBrain has made over the past year
How To Choose A Domain Name
Here are 11 tips for choosing the best domain name that potential site visitors will remember.
Google’s John Mueller On Links From News Sites
Google’s John Mueller offers his insights into how Google handles links from news sites
WordPress Security Plugin Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites
Two security vulnerabilities affect the popular All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress plugin
New Adobe PDF WordPress Plugin Radically Improves User Experience
Adobe PDF Embed WordPress plugin finally makes PDF files easy to use on websites
Seven Free Open Source GPT Models Released
Seven open source GPT models challenge the closed-source models by OpenAI, Deepmind and Meta
Google Reveals How It Catches Fake Local Business Reviews
Google explains how it catches fake and misleading business reviews and accounts on Google Maps
Yoast SEO Founders Invest in WordPress Accessibility Plugin
WordPress accessibility plugin scans and creates reports on unlimited pages – Free
Google Updates Search Console With New Merchant Reports
Google Search Console adds clicks and impressions reports for product snippets and merchant listings
New Open Source ChatGPT Clone – Called Dolly
Open Source AI movement achieves another milestone with the release of a ChatGPT clone that anyone can use
WordPress WooCommerce Payments Plugin Vulnerability
WordPress plugin vulnerability allows full site takeover by unauthenticated attackers. Affects over 500,000 WordPress WooCommerce sites
Google Bard: Everything You Need To Know
Google has just released Bard, its answer to ChatGPT. Here is everything we know about Bard.
Mozilla Open Source AI To Challenge ChatGPT & Bard
Mozilla announced an open source counterweight against profit-focused AI companies. Will create an open source challenger to ChatGPT and Bard
Google Explains Why Sites Should Combine Structured Data
Google explains why it’s recommended to combine multiple structured data into one script
OpenAI GPT-4 Arriving Mid-March 2023
OpenAI GPT-4 is confirmed to be releasing mid-March. Described as multimodal
Bing AI-Powered Search & Edge Browser Grow Users & Engagement
Microsoft shares an upbeat report on continued growth in users and engagement for Bing search and Edge Browser
WP Statistics WordPress Plugin Patches CSRF Vulnerability
WP Statistics WordPress plugin, with 600,000+ active installs, patched a CSRF vulnerability
Elementor WordPress Contact Form Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Up To 200,000 Sites
Vulnerability discovered in Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder plugin affects hundreds of thousands of WordPress websites
Brave Search Engine Summarizing Webpages in SERPs
Brave SERPs now feature a rich result created by an AI Summarizer, sometimes summarizing two webpages in a single summary
Google Removes Job Search Experience From South Korean Search Results
Job Search Experience rich results in Google search is no longer available in South Korea
W3C Launches Beta Of New Website Redesign
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) offers a sneak peek at their redesigned website and asks for feedback