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Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan addresses concerns around freelance writers, writing teams, manual actions, and more. Google’s controversial site reputation abuse policy certainly ruffled a few feathers since its rollout last year. Some publishers, like Forbes, blame the policy for forcing devastating decisions in newsrooms – like the firing of all freelance journalists. Others argue…
AI bot scraping doubled from Q3 to Q4 of 2024. But the click-through rates from AI search remain abysmal – at less than 1% AI-powered search engines (e.g., OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity) are failing to drive meaningful traffic to publishers while their web scraping activities increase. That’s one big takeaway from a recent report from TollBit, a…
I read the news today, oh boy. AI search engines give wrong answers 60% of the time and often cite fabricated or broken URLs. AI search engines and chatbots often provide wrong answers and make up article citations, according to a new study from Columbia Journalism Review. Why we care. AI search tools have ramped…
This comes after Google announced in April 2024 that Publisher Center will stop allowing you to add publications manually. Google will soon fully transition to automatically generated publication pages next month, in March. Back in April 2024, Google told us Publisher Center will soon stop allowing you to add publications and now this is the…
The legacy media brand is shifting focus from reach metrics to engagement, such as YouTube watch time. UK news site the Sun ended 2024 by losing half of its audience, due in part to “algorithm changes at certain platforms,” according to the latest earnings report from parent company News Corp. On the earnings call, News…
OpenAI’s Varun Shetty also said publishers will be fairly compensated through ‘significant incremental traffic from new audiences.’ OpenAI’s SearchGPT, which the company said was a temporary prototype when it launched in July, will be integrated into ChatGPT “by the end of the year.” That’s according to Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, speaking at…
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…