#searchengines — Public Fediverse posts

FYI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

FYI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

FYI: Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Search Has A Special Dolly Parton Easter Egg 🦋. “To commemorate the life of Dolly Parton, Google has released a new easter egg in its search results. If you search for [Dolly Parton] within Google Search, you will see butterflies come up from the bottom of the screen up through the search results page.”

Ars Technica: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment. “In the mid-’90s, the web was exploding, but finding anything of actual value on it felt like an elaborate negotiation with whatever proto-search engine happened to be standing closest to the door. Unlike now, when Google is widely seen as both portal and gatekeeper, sites like AltaVista, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, and […]

"If Kagi (a startup with a handful of engineers) can extract useful search results from Google's databases, then Google – a thrice-convicted monopolist that's had its pick of thousands of the top computer scientists from the world's most prestigious universities for a generation – could also do so.

They just choose not to.

They're too big to fail. They're too big to jail. They're too big to care.

Google's AI search isn't a way to fix its broken core product: it's a way to partially remediate the damage Google itself inflicted on the open internet, while imprisoning the web in a walled garden that would make Steve Jobs drool:
(...)
It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. The too-big-to-care company is still the internet's gatekeeper, but half the guards at the gate have been fired and the other half have pulled so much overtime that they keep falling asleep on the job.

Google has become a scammer's paradise.

Take Google's "answer box." This is the part of the search results page that tries to answer your query directly, without sending you elsewhere for that info. Back in 2023, Google's Answer Box was taken over by scammers who impersonated airline help desks. When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves:"

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/

#Google #Search #SearchEngines #AI #AISearch #Scams #AIOverview #BigTech #Monopolies #Antitrust

#Ecosia ( @ecosia ) und #Qwant ( @Qwant ) starten deutschen #Webindex | c't Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Ecosia-und-Qwant-starten-deutschen-Webindex-11383500.html #DigitalSovereignty #SearchIndex #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #Suchmaschine #Suchmaschinen

Mashable: Googling ‘Jimothy’ brings up an unexpected surprise. “On Tuesday, Threads users noticed that Jimothy’s fame has now been acknowledged by the search engine gods — namely, he has his own Google animation.”

Published at #IRRJ: "Much Ado about Accessibility: An Exploration of Online Content Accessibility from an Autism-Informed Perspective" by Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera. #TextAnalysis, #Autism, #WebAccessibility, #SearchEngines, #LLMs

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.25297

Search Engine Land: Google AI Overviews are tested and removed based on engagement. What if they were tested and removed based on accuracy? “Google shows AI Overviews in Search largely based on whether users engage with them — and removes them when they don’t. That’s according to Robby Stein, Google’s VP of product for Search. In a CNN interview, Stein explained how Google tunes […]

Tom’s Hardware: Search pioneer AltaVista’s star shone bright with a clean and minimal UI 30 years ago — engine lost momentum after multiple ownership changes and the embrace of the web portal trend. “We’ve already sketched out the explosive but almost accidental success that the youthful AltaVista would see. Its architecture, mixing a web crawler dubbed Scooter and a back-end index server […]

For years I've been writing that AI is essentially another stage of control over semantics. The power of philosopher kings (Plato) who create new myths.

A process that has accelerated... building internet gateways that filter meaning.

New piece on the expert's paradox and the facade of trustworthiness.

https://dadalo.pl/en/tech/ai-slop-expert-paradox-cognitive-biases/

#AI #epistemology #Google #bias #AIOverview #disinformation #criticalthinking #tech #SearchEngines

Search Engine Land: Bing pushes ad-heavy search results with 7+ sponsored listings. “Microsoft Bing appears to be testing an aggressive new ad display format that dramatically reduces organic search visibility in favor of sponsored content.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/search-engine-land-bing-pushes-ad-heavy-search-results-with-7-sponsored-listings/

For those of you freaking out about Google's anti-scraping measures (requiring support for Javascript), now is a great time to get reacquainted with Google Search Console. It's free, the ranking data is more accurate than any SEO tool can provide you with, and you should always have preferred its information to any SEO tool's information anyway.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #seotools #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #analytics #google #searchengines

I just discovered Old'aVista.

https://oldavista.com/

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintageweb #altavista #searchengines #nostalgia #archive #computinghistory

What are your favorite / the best #WebCrawlers for broad / #WebScale #crawling?

I've built a list but am looking for anything I missed: https://github.com/davidshq/awesome-search-engines/blob/main/WebCrawlers.md

Main options I've found include #Apache #Nutch, #StormCrawler, #Scrapy, #Norconex, #PulsarR, #Heritrix, and #sparkler

#question #search #SearchEngines

Demand Curve: Questions you need to answer in your paid search ads - Stewart Hillhouse
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Google Reaches Document Protection Deal in Antitrust Fight - The company had asked a court for limits on consultants working with the attorney general of Texas... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/technology/google-antitrust-document-deal.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #computersandtheinternet #attorneysgeneral #searchengines #googleinc #paxtonken

Google Wants Safeguards for Information in Antitrust Fight - The Silicon Valley company filed a court petition asking for limits on what is shared with consult... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/business/google-antitrust-case.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #attorneysgeneral #searchengines #alphabetinc #googleinc #paxtonken