Court Overturns €1.5 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Against Google

The fine marked the third major antitrust penalty against the search giant by the EU in the last decade, following earlier fines related to Android and Google Shopping. However, this is the first of them to be overturned. Continue reading Court Overturns €1.5 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Against Google

Google starts doing the Googling for you: Search will never be the same

If you’ve been online since the mid-90s, you’ll remember the chaos of pre-Google search, which is probably best exemplified by Dogpile, a search engine that literally searched all the other search engines for you, to give you some hope of finding what … Continue reading Google starts doing the Googling for you: Search will never be the same

The Rise of Large-Language-Model Optimization

The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection.

But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.

To understand why, you must understand publishing. Its core task is to connect writers to an audience. Publishers work as gatekeepers, filtering candidates and then amplifying the chosen ones. Hoping to be selected, writers shape their work in various ways. This article might be written very differently in an academic publication, for example, and publishing it here entailed pitching an editor, revising multiple drafts for style and focus, and so on…

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Why do inurl dorking queries show non-existent webpages for my website, and how can I address this issue? [closed]

I have recently noticed that when I perform inurl dorking queries for my website, the search results include webpages that do not exist on my site. These non-existent pages are not part of my website’s content or structure, and I’m concern… Continue reading Why do inurl dorking queries show non-existent webpages for my website, and how can I address this issue? [closed]