#OpenAI may pay Reddit M for licensing deal

#OpenAI may pay Reddit $70M for licensing deal

We know Google pays Reddit $60M, and Reddit has content deals with only Google and OpenAI. That leaves OpenAI paying about $70M. Reddit reported its earnings last night, and while it underperformed in terms of user growth (thanks to Google), the earnings report seemed to highlight how much OpenAI is paying Reddit to license its…

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#Google’s Top stories looks broken: Are news publishers to blame?

#Google’s Top stories looks broken: Are news publishers to blame?

International publishers are overtaking local news brands in Google’s Top stories, raising questions about search relevance. News publishers have been working harder than ever to squeeze search traffic out of Google. Just when editors start to feel confident that they’ve perfected a winning SEO formula, the game changes. From supposedly “helpful” algorithm updates to site…

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#Google Publisher Center to stop allowing you to add publications

#Google Publisher Center to stop allowing you to add publications

Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publishers and will eventually remove those publishers not eligible. Google will stop allowing publishers to add publications to the Google Publisher Center manually. Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publications pages later this year. This change will likely lead to even more confusion around Google News inclusion, which we…

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#Google promotes Liz Reid to head of Search

#Google promotes Liz Reid to head of Search

Cheenu Venkatachary is also replacing Pandu Nayak as lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy Edwards is moving to the Long-term Bets team. Google is making a number of changes to its executive team running Google Search: Liz Reid, who was leading up core search experiences, will now be the Head of Search at Google….

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