Introduction – message to Messrs Google & Co: sorry for this apparent criticism. I am not actually criticising Google here; just explaining what I think is happening. I could be wrong. It just looks like that. In some ways I agree with shrinking the internet. It is too big; a sprawling mass of websites, …
I asked Google’s Gemini (AI bot) if the statement in the question is accurate. The last search engine algorithm change by Google (about May 2024) which decides where to rank websites in search results has been devastating for millions of websites. Yes, millions of websites. A survey published on the BBC site found that …
This short article is for the technically minded and website owners and managers. It may not be news for them but it certainly is for me and I’d like to pass on the information for those struggling to pass Google Search Console Core Web Vitals performance measuring tools. These are very technical measurements and …
There is a discussion about the balance between the adverts and the content on news and content websites. A lot of people think that adverts are intrusive and shouldn’t be there at all. The adverts can irritate some readers. But I think that content websites like this one should be advertising platforms with the …
This is nothing to do with cats so cat lovers can turn the page. It is something I want to get off my chest. It is about their search engine rankings or more accurately described as Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). The great difficulty that Google has is that they have to award a …
Can googling symptoms general make them worse? YES, is the easy answer. But it depends on who is doing the googling. If an inexperienced cat owner is googling their observed symptoms suffered by their cat because they are clearly unwell it is entirely possible – perhaps likely – that the owner will misdiagnose the …
I’m questioning Google’s decision to provide AI text answers through their chat bot, Bard, in a revamp of their search engine results. I’ll tell you why. If I am right, I think Google is being unfair and they may damage the Internet. Current status When you use Google today, you ask Google to find …
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot interface online. It is basically and instant message (IM) conversation with a computer run by AI. You can ask the computer all kinds of questions and it will provide you with its best answer immediately. The answers are compact, concise and well written in English. I …
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