Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results
comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew Curran / @andrewcurr...
Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more
“What will AI mean for jobs?” may be the single most-asked question about the technology category that dominates Silicon Valley, pop culture, and our politics. Bluesky: @midimyers.com , @larsonlee , @...
Reddit appears to be blocking search engines that don't rely on Google's indexing; Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and others are not showing recent Reddit results
except the ones that pay Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Reddit Blocked Bing Search & Others But Not Google Ben Schoon / 9to5Google : Reddit now blocks all search engines other than Google...
Google says 404 Media's report claiming Google is “boosting” AI-written article is misleading since the writer sorted news content by date rather than relevance
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable :
OpenAI details GPTBot, which the company uses to crawl the web for data to improve its AI models, and how site admins can opt out using robots.txt
GPTBot is OpenAI's web crawler and can be identified by the following user agent and string. Emilia David / The Verge : Now you can block OpenAI's web crawler Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land : GPT...
Microsoft appears to have updated the new Bing to end chats following prompts mentioning “feelings” or “Sydney”, after adding chat restrictions on February 17
but the human response is way scarier Russell Kidson / gHacks Technology News : The Problem of Other Minds: Assessing the Sentience of Chatbots like Bing Eric Hal Schwartz / Voicebot.ai : Microsoft Re...
[Thread] Facebook's future prospects remain strong as the secular rise of digital advertising blunts any headwinds from regulators, Apple, critics, and others
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Google open-sources its robots.txt parser and submits a proposal to IETF to make the Robots Exclusion Protocol an official standard
Code Issues 1 Pull requests 12 Projects Security Insights Google Webmaster Central Blog : A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt Roland Moore-Colyer / Inquirer : Google open sources robots.txt to c...
Google allows users to report offensive autocomplete suggestions and Featured Snippets, will show more authoritative content for obscure and infrequent queries
I was, frankly, amazed when I saw this tweet: Tech2 : Facebook and Google announce new plans to tackle the problem of fake news Gizmodo India : Google wants your help to tackle fake news Barry Schwart...
Google says it has reduced fake Google Maps listings by 70% since June 2015 by improving business verification methods and using machine learning to fight spam
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land :