Google

2022 was a big year for Google search and SEO. Google did a major refresh of their Webmaster Guidelines (now called Google Search Essentials), they're working to combat AI and much, much more. However, there's one change you may have missed: Google's latest algorithm change...

Back in August 2022, Google's search quality team announced the Google Helpful Content Update, where they would start scanning websites for AI plagiarized content and would penalize websites that utilized content written to game search. Additionally, Google announced that they would "demote site scraping content...

Facebook F8GigaOm has a great blog post previewing what Facebook will be launching today at their F8 conference. In short, they're launching Facebook Connect 2.0 (auto-logins), the Facebook Presence Bar (think of the one at the bottom of this page), Share/Like buttons, and Facebook Locations, which is their answer to Foursquare. This furthers the notion I've been telling clients for a while now: it's a flat out war between Google and Facebook for your attention and more importantly - your data.