Structured data and SEO: What you need to know in 2025
Here’s why structured data matters, key schema types to use and advanced techniques to boost visibility in rich results.
Topic: Speech synthesis
Google updates crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation
With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler.
ChatGPT rolls out voice and image prompts
The new functionalities will be rolled out onto ChatGPT's subscription platform over the next two weeks.
Bing Chat gains voice search on desktop interface
Bing Chat can also respond with text to speech answers.
Google launches 3 new ad creation tools
The new features give advertisers and teams the ability to create and collaborate, without leaving the ads platform.
Bing upgrades text-to-speech, expands intelligent answers, improves visual search
Check out the latest upgrades made to Bing around voice, image and answer search.
Google releases speakable markup for news publishers interested in Google Assistant
Google has released new markup and schema aimed at bringing more news content to the Google Assistant and Google Home devices.
New search quality raters guidelines for Google Assistant and voice search evaluations
Google has quality raters specifically for voice search-related search results. These raters look for information satisfaction, length, formulation and elocution.
Searching For The Voice Of Siri: Voiceover Actor Susan Bennett Says, “It’s Obviously Me”
A story on CNN.com claims that Atlanta voiceover professional Susan Bennett is the original voice of Siri, Apple’s iPhone voice application. According to the story, Bennett did voice work for the software company ScanSoft in 2005. CNN says ScanSoft was then purchased by Nuance Communications, a company that is credited with providing Apple the technology […]
Google Translate: Picture To OCR To Speech
Google Translate announced they added in integration with Google Goggles, to help with your translation needs. So when you are in a restaurant and the menu looks foreign to you, you can pull out your Google Translate app and have it search for the translation. You take a picture of the words, highlight the words […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 2011
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Facebook Gestures: How Users Could Be Sharing Their Opinion Facebook “Likes” have become a universal way to share or promote a piece of content on a blog or website (or Facebook […]
A Guide To SXSW For Those Interested In Search Engines & Search Marketing
I’m attending South By Southwest for the first time, later this week. I have to say, already I find SXSW to be overwhelming — and I’m not even there yet! To get myself organized as to how to attack this monster, I starting making a list of search-related sessions. I thought it would be useful […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 14, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: URL Shorteners Come To Google & Facebook Google announced a new URL shortening service Goo.gl. It doesn’t replace Bit.ly and others because it only works right now with the Google Toolbar […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 16, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.