Tag Archives: Search

Google employees have been testing several potential ChatGPT competitors as part of the tech giant’s bid to launch a response to OpenAI’s technology, according to CNBC. A previous New York Times report said that Google CEO Sundar Pichai declared “code red” and accelerated AI development to be able to unveil at least 20 AI-powered products this year. Now, CNBC has detailed several of the products the company is working on, including a chatbot called “Apprentice Bard” that uses Google’s LaMDA… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia Censors Web So ‘Bald F*cker’ Search Won’t Show Putin  The Daily Beast Source link

Russia’s biggest search engine secretly put blocks in its code to stop images of Vladimir Putin showing up in the results of potentially embarrassing searches, according to a report, with Nazi iconography also allegedly scrubbed out of the results of queries for the “Z” symbol signifying support for the war in Ukraine. Last week, fragments of the source code for Yandex—sometimes likened to “Russia’s Google”—were leaked online. Experts have been poring over the code ever since… Source link

Last week I reported that Yahoo Search posted on Twitter that it will be making search cool again. As I posted on Search Engine Land yesterday, we got more evidence that Yahoo is really moving forward with improving its search service. Last night, Jim Lanzone, the CEO of Yahoo (more about him below), responded to Greg Sterling and myself about Yahoo getting into search: Greg, I think you and Barry know – there are always new ways around the mountain. No reason to go straight at it. But… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leak: Insights  Search Engine Journal Source link

The search marketing community is trying to make sense of the leaked Yandex repository containing files listing what looks like search ranking factors. Some may be looking for actionable SEO clues but that’s probably not the real value. The general agreement is that it will be helpful for gaining a general understanding of how search engines work. If you want hacks or shortcuts those aren’t here. But if you want to understand more about how a search engine works. There’s gold. —… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex scrapes Google and other SEO learnings from the source code leak  Search Engine Land Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors  Ars Technica Source link

Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of Russian tech giant Yandex’s many apps and services. It also revealed key ranking factors for Yandex’s search engine, the kind… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex Search Ranking Factors Leaked & Revealed  Search Engine Roundtable Source link