What affects us affects cats
I entered into a discussion with ChatGPT on what is a popular topic: the gradual ‘breaking bad’ of Google around ten years ago. My personal viewpoint is that because Google has such a dominant position in the internet it has added responsibilities of trust in its relationship with the public. It MUST act as …
This article reflects the current state of play. Things are changing rapidly but the big question is whether AI will one day be sentient and be able to form its own opinions and have genuine original thought, plucked out of its billions of neural connections. Users of AI need to rapidly realise that AI …
By ‘thicker’ I mean more stupid. Here are two clear examples concerning one search term. The search term is: “In general, humans don’t like their anatomy. INFOGRAPHIC“. As I created the infographic, I know what it is about, which is the possible detrimental effect on health of disliking one’s anatomy. Firstly, Google consistently tries …
AVOID websites answering the question “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” If you search for “Are Bengal cats legal in Australia?” you may find yourself clicking on Google search result which takes you to a website which has been created by malware hackers. The site that you visit may download malware (poisonous software) to …
Website owners can ‘re-program’ search engines using English to request improved search result rankings. Yes, No? To re-phrase that: English language dialogue with search engines is now possible to improve SEO. I am speculating. But read on to see what you think about this fast-moving development. My hypothesis here is that it would seem …
Google Scholar must be embarrassed by news that two guys managed to submit nonsense academic papers ostensibly written by a cat called Larry which was cited by others and which led to Larry being ranked higher academically than real academics! The guys who organised this have exposed, they believe, a flaw in the highly …
I have just been doing some research to find out if Paris cleaned up the streets by removing stray cats and dogs before the Olympics using Bing’s search engine. China did this before their hosting of the Olympics in the cruellest way. And Russia before the World Cup. Internet search has changed dramatically by …
A lot has been said about Google search console core web vitals – by Google! They claimed that if you didn’t get your website sorted out with excellent, across the board core vitals pass marks your website would be ranked poorly in Google search results. I for one took this to heart and after …
