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Earlier this week, Sundar Pichai said that Google has “ambitious goals and will be investing in [its] big priorities” in 2024. This includes AI and spans Google’s consumer to enterprise platforms.  In that company-wide memo (via The Verge), the CEO laid out seven goals for Google in 2024: Deliver the world’s most advanced, safe, and responsible Al. Improve knowledge, learning, creativity, and productivity. Build the most helpful personal computing… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google helpful content system can now impact Google Discover visibility  Search Engine Land Source link

Google is now rolling out two different Google search algorithm updates simultaneously, the December 2022 helpful content system and the December 2022 link spam update. The helpful content update started on December 5th, and the link spam update started on December 14th. Both updates are not finished rolling out, in fact, Google said that the helpful content update “is going to take longer” to complete than the two-week timeline previously… Source link

Google has begun to push out an update to its helpful content system, this is the first big update to this update since it launched in August 2022. The update started yesterday, December 5th but it is now noticeable on December 6th, which is why Google announced this update today. What is new. Now the helpful content update (aka system) is a global update, impacting all languages and not just the English language. This will help Google’s systems… Source link

Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, says the helpful content ranking signal may get stronger with future algorithm updates. The helpful content update started rolling out two weeks ago. Early feedback from SEOs and publishers suggests that the new ranking signal doesn’t significantly impact search results. Sullivan addressed the feedback last week, emphasizing the helpful content update is a big one, despite anecdotal evidence suggesting otherwise. As the update is a continuing… Source link

Google addresses reports that the helpful content update has a minimal impact on search results, reminding everyone it’s still rolling out. After one week into the launch of the helpful content update, there’s a growing consensus that it’s not producing any major changes. Reports that the update is quiet caught the attention of Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, who addresses the situation in a series of tweets. In short, Sullivan reiterates a point made last week about the… Source link

A child asked me which was better: Alexa, the voice inside the Amazon Echo Dot, or Google Assistant, the voice inside the Google Home speaker, renamed Google Nest. Until recently, I would have said Google. That was before I read CNET’s “9 things your Amazon Echo can do that Google Home can’t.” Of course, right after that, I read “9 Things Google Home Can Do that Alexa Can’t.” Let’s start with some Alexa differences. Alexa can play Apple Music as one of many choices; Google makes Apple music… Source link

Google is testing a new feature that could improve discovery for Android apps on Google Play. The company confirmed it’s experimenting with a “Compare Apps” option that would allow Google Play users to quickly and more easily understand the slight differences between otherwise similar apps by comparing specific features and metrics — like star ratings or total downloads, for example. The feature was first spotted by Android Police, which found it at the bottom of an individual… Source link

Google Search Head Prabhakar Raghavan opened the company livestream event, saying people use Google over supposed ccompetitors because it’s “helpful.” Users choose Google because it’s innovative and ‘helpful’ — not because there’s no competition. At least, that’s the message company executives tried to show viewers in a live-streamed event about its search product Thursday. The company announced a burst of small updates to its core search product, including the ability to detect songs from… Source link