#Will traffic from search engines fall 25% by 2026?

#Will traffic from search engines fall 25% by 2026?

Gartner is predicting that users will seek answers from generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude rather than Google Search. Will traffic from search engines to your website drop 25% by 2026 as a result of the rise of generative AI answer engines? That’s what Gartner, a technological research and consulting firm, is predicting. Why…

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#Google wants you to label AI-generated images used in Merchant Center

#Google wants you to label AI-generated images used in Merchant Center

“Don’t remove embedded metadata tags such as trainedAlgorithmicMedia from such images,” Google wrote. Google Merchant Center has clarified that if you use AI-generated images within your Merchant Center feed you must indicate that the image was created using generative AI. Google posted, “If you’re using AI-generated images in Merchant Center, Google requires that you preserve…

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#Google announces Misrepresentation policy update

#Google announces Misrepresentation policy update

Failure to comply with the updated policy could result in the suspension of your Google Ads account. Goggle Ads is updating the unacceptable business pactices portion of its Misrepresentation policy. From March, this section will include: “Enticing users to part with money or information by impersonating or falsely implying affiliation with or endorsement by a…

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#Report: OpenAI working on web search product

#Report: OpenAI working on web search product

The creator of the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT may be working on a search engine to try and compete with Google. OpenAI has been developing a web search product, partly powered by Microsoft Bing, a source told The Information. This shouldn’t be too surprising, considering: OpenAI has a web crawler, GPTBot. ChatGPT Plus users…

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