Google search articles
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Googling "Flag GIF" Leads To Nazi Flags In Google Search
If you search for [flag GIF] on Google, click on the "waiving" refinement, you are taken to images of Nazi flags. I waited a full week to report on this, a full week from when Google acknowledged the issue and it is still an issue.If you search for [flag gif], you will see a refinement to show you waiving flags:If you click on "waiving" Google Search shows you Nazi flags:This was posted on Mastodon on April 24th and Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, responded shortly after saying,...
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Google Search With 16 Shopping Ads
It is good to have choices but too many choices might not be good, said some wise man. Well, here is Google giving you 16 choices of bikes in the shopping ad spot at the top of the Google Search results.This was spotted by Mike Hardaker and he shared this screenshot with me on X - here it is:I tried to replicate it, but I was unable to. I suspect this is some sort of weird bug?I mean, I was able to see the normal carousel ads:I also saw the right side ads:And those new vertical tall ads:This...
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How generative AI is clouding the future of Google search
To preserve the usefulness of its rankings as early adopters defect to ChatGPT, Bing, and Perplexity, Google just completed rolling out the largest algorithm update in the company’s history. But search marketing experts and business owners say spam is still commanding top-ranking positions, calling into question Google’s ability to deliver the best search results in the brave new world of generative AI. “I’ve never seen as much spam in Google’s results so blatantly in top positions,” says...