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Month: April 2024

Meta Integrates Google & Bing Search Results Into AI Assistant

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Meta’s AI assistant, powered by the new Llama 3 model, will now incorporate real-time search results from Google and Bing. This integration marks a step forward in AI assistant capabilities and their potential impact on the search industry. You can access Meta AI within Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and the newly launched Meta.ai desktop experience. Google & Bing Search + Meta Meta is integrating Google and Bing results directly into its AI assistant. Instead of relying solely on training data or a single search engine, Meta’s AI assistant intelligently selects…

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BofA Survey: Majority of Small and Mid-Sized Business Owners Anticipate Revenue Growth This Year

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Business and Economic OutlookWhen looking at attitudes concerning the national economy, business owners’ outlooks varied by the size of their business: 75% of mid-sized business owners expect the national economy to improve over the next 12 months, while just 33% of small business owners expect the same. Mid-sized business owners (MSBOs) maintain a positive business outlook: 87% believe their revenue will increase over the next 12 months. 80% plan to expand their businesses in the year ahead. 69% plan to hire over the next 12 months. 84% said their revenues…

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Google Ads Introduces Customizable Automation With “Solutions”

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Highlights Google Ads introduces “Solutions” for simplified campaign management and automation. “Solutions” offers customizable templates for various advertising tasks, accessible to all skill levels. Advertisers can easily create, monitor, and modify “Solutions” to optimize their campaigns efficiently.   Key Features Of Solutions Solutions offers a range of customization options for generating reports, allowing you to filter data by various dimensions such as campaign, ad group, or keyword. Advertisers can also set flexible budgets, manage negative keyword lists across their accounts, sort data by metric, and export reports in formats like…

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Google Declares It The “Gemini Era” As Revenue Grows 15%

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Highlights Alphabet grew revenue 15% year-over-year. AI is the strategic focus, with plans to integrate generative AI into Search. Company is reorganizing AI teams under DeepMind to accelerate “Gemini era” innovations. Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company, announced its first quarter 2024 financial results today. While Google reported double-digit growth in key revenue areas, the focus was on its AI developments, dubbed the “Gemini era” by CEO Sundar Pichai.   The Numbers: 15% Revenue Growth, Operating Margins Expand Alphabet reported Q1 revenues of $80.5 billion, a 15% increase year-over-year, exceeding Wall Street’s projections.…

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Google Revised The Favicon Documentation

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    Google revised their Search Central favicon documentation with additional wording that makes it more understandable   Google revised their documentation on Favicons in order to add definitions in response to user questions received about favicons and what to use. The updated version of the documentation is significantly better because it explains the difference between the legacy form of favicon and the latest version of it. Favicon A favicon is a visual representation of a site and when properly executed it can draw attention to itself in the search…

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Google Explains A Weird Domain Migration Outcome

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Google’s John Mueller offers insight into why three related domain name migrations had different outcomes despite following equal process Google’s John Mueller offered an insight into why the domain name migrations between multiple language versions of the same website turned out vastly different even though the same process was followed for each of three websites. Migrating To Different Domain Names The person asking the question maintained three websites under three different country code top level domains (ccTLDs). The ccTLDs were .fr (France), .be (Belgium), and .de (Germany). The project was…

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How To Address Middle And Bottom Of Funnel Pain Points

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Drive pipeline velocity with playbooks to effectively address the most common middle and bottom of funnel lead pain points. The B2B marketplace has evolved rapidly in recent years due to various global factors, with the pandemic and economic turbulence being the top drivers. As a result, there has been a notable change in both marketer and buyer priorities in recent years. Speaking with our clients and partners, I have observed that in 2024, marketers’ top priorities have shifted from personalized outreach to generating sales-ready leads and driving pipeline opportunities. This likely results from a…

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YouTube escalates war on ad blockers Social 

YouTube escalates war on ad blockers

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YouTube users who use ad blockers to avoid advertising on the platform will now see alerts or experience buffering issues. YouTube has introduced two new measures in its crackdown on ad blockers. There will either be: Buffering issues. An error message saying “The following content is not available on this app.” Why we care. YouTube is doing all it can to ensure ads are seen by as many of its free users as possible. YouTube’s war on ad blockers will likely lead to disgruntled users who will abandon YouTube altogether.…

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Gotion High-tech’s operating profit up 391% in 2023, nearly RMB 2.8 billion invested in R&D for the year

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On the evening of 19 April, Gotion High-tech (002074) released its 2023 annual report. The company achieved operating revenue of RMB 31.605 billion, an increase of 37.11% YoY; operating profit of RMB 975 million, an increase of 390.92% YoY; and net profit attributable to the owner of the listed company of RMB 939 million, an increase of 201.28% YoY. The company’s net cash flows from operating activities was RMB 2.419 billion, up 201.86% YoY. On the same day, Gotion High-tech also released its 2024 quarterly report. The company achieved revenue of RMB 7.508 billion, a YoY…

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Brave Search unveils AI answer engine SEO 

Brave Search unveils AI answer engine

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Brave’s new Answer with AI features uses large language models to generate answers to queries directly in the search results. Brave Search introduced a new AI answer engine called Answer with AI. It will produce AI-generated answers “synthesized” from multiple sources for any query. What is Answer with AI. Answer with AI, as the name suggests, uses AI to generate answers to queries directly in the search results. This new Brave Search feature appears above the organic search results. The format varies slightly, depending on the query type. At the bottom, Brave includes…

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