Publishers push Common Crawl to stop collecting content for AI training
Could AI lose a key source of training data? Major publishers want Common Crawl to stop collecting and sharing their content.
Topic: Mozilla Foundation
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT?
How Google leverages BERT depends on the use of the term ‘Passage Indexing’ (although it’s identified as a ranking update).
Global Privacy Control group aims to succeed where ‘do not track’ failed
Initiative faces the challenge of gaining publisher and consumer adoption.
Google, Mozilla Renew Firefox Search Deal For 3 More Years
Google and Mozilla have struck a deal that renews their agreement making Google the default search engine in Firefox browsers. No financial terms were announced, but Mozilla’s blog post says the agreement extends the companies’ agreement “for at least three additional years.” The renewal comes about three weeks after the previous contract expired. The two […]
Cats & Dogs Living Together: Bing Promotes Firefox
If you ever wanted proof that Microsoft has learned that for Bing to succeed, it needs to spread its wings beyond Microsoft, look no further than today’s news that Bing is offering “Firefox With Bing.” That’s right, Microsoft is pushing a rival browser to its own Internet Explorer. Firefox With Bing In a blog post […]
Tough Love For Microsoft Search
Back in June, I spoke at Microsoft as part of a regular series for those involved with its webmaster tools group and anyone generally interested in search. My talk was called “Tough Love For Microsoft Search,” and I covered various reasons why I felt the company has generally failed to make headway in the space. […]
Search Biz: Yahoo & AOL, Again?; IAB On Ad Revenues; Debating Google’s Evilness & More
Does anyone want to dance with Yahoo? Well, Bloomberg is reporting that Yahoo is continuing to talk with Time Warner about buying AOL. The report says the two companies have met “in the past few weeks,” and are discussing a plan where AOL’s advertising business would be given to Yahoo in exchange for Time Warner […]
June 2008: Search Engine Land’s Most Popular Stories
Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from June 2008:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 6, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Hey Firefox – Let Us Pick Our Own Search Engine!
So Firefox 3 has a new release candidate making news, suggesting that the browser is nearly done. May I suggest that the browser is nowhere near being done until the Mozilla Foundation drops its favoritism to Google and allow users to pick their own default search engine? And that Microsoft ought to be among those […]