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Has AI changed SEO for better or worse?

Search Engine Land

One concern is that it could decrease the quality of content, as marketers may focus more on creating content optimized for search engines rather than providing value to readers. Customers value their experience with a business very highly.

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The modern search landscape: How and where to reach your target audience

Search Engine Land

Over 80% of searches worldwide occur on Google based on the latest search engine market share data. It’s no surprise that Google is the most-visited website across the globe and all the top 10 most-visited websites worldwide feature a search experience that is core to the user experience. as of August 2021.

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This day in search marketing history: January 26

Search Engine Land

Google’s Topics API: Advertisers share concerns about topic diversity and other potential challenges 2022: Search marketers applauded Google’s proposed user privacy measures, but also highlighted its shortcomings – particularly the number of topics in the initial design.

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This day in search marketing history: February 3

Search Engine Land

Also on this day Google will suspend merchant sites that show higher prices at checkout 2021: Starting on April 6, Google would begin enforcing price accuracy between Merchant Center feeds and checkout. Chrome’s Market Share Drops In January; Was It Due To Google’s Penalty? However, MUM was not used for ranking purposes.

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PPC 2023 in review: UA sunsets, Google antitrust trial, X’s downfall and more

Search Engine Land

Amazon unveiled plans in October to roll out upgraded generative AI capabilities that offer a more conversational, detailed, and personalized user experience in the US from January. The new Bing failed to take any market share from Google after six months. In June, Instacart added generative AI to its search experience.

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The Google anti-trust trial: A deep dive into the details

Martech

Justice Department claims Google, which owns a 90% market share in search, paid massive sums to companies like Apple to make it the default search engine on products like the iPhone. 12 John Schmidtlein, lead lawyer for Google, claims the company dominates the search market due to being a superior product.

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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

Decisions that affect Chrome—with a nearly two-thirds market share —are decisions that affect the Internet, especially paid advertising. But it’s still a time crunch for Google to figure out how to defend their ad empire without access to the user-level data that’s made it so lucrative. How FLoC works.