Category Archives: computers

All things computers/servers…

OAI-AdsBot – New OpenAI Ads Bot

We’ve been keeping track of the bots, spiders, OpenAI has been releasing. OpenAI just posted about a new bot for ads, it is named OAI-AdsBot.

ChatGPT Ad Manager Interface

Here are some early screenshots and videos of the ChatGPT ad management interface that some OpenAI advertisers have access to. You can see that you can create campaigns, ad groups, budgets, CPC limits, conversions and much more.

Google Ads Advisor Gains Troubleshooting, Security Monitoring & Instant Certification

Google Ads Advisor, which officially began rolling out last November, is rolling out three new features. These features include proactive troubleshooting, 24/7 security monitoring and instant certifications.

Google Ads New AI-Qualified Call Conversions

Google Ads has a new help document on AI-Qualified Call Conversions. Google says AI-qualified call leads use Google AI to evaluate call recordings to determine the actual quality of the conversation.

New NGate variant hides in a trojanized NFC payment app

ESET researchers discover another iteration of NGate malware, this time possibly developed with the assistance of AI

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 21, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google says when it comes to SEO…

Google Search Console Performance Report Job Listings Reporting Bug

Google Search Console seems to have a bug with the performance report, specific to the jobs listing and jobs search appearance filter. The report is showing zero impressions and clicks since the 16th of this month.

Google Documents Read More Snippet Links Best Practices

Several months after Google launched the Read more links within the Google search results snippets, Google decided to post some best practices how Read more links work. These should help you encourage Google to show the read more links and thus help increase click-through rates from Google Search.

Google Shopping Showing Shopping Ads Within Free Listing Grid

Google is reportedly showing shopping ads in the free listing grid in the Google Shopping tab. Previously, Google was better at showing more free listings but that seems to have changed.

Google: You Can Do A Lot Of SEO That Don’t Work & Still Do Ok

Google’s John Mueller said that since SEO is complex, multifaceted, and resilient, you “can do a lot of things that don’t work & still do ok.” Meaning, you can mess up on several SEO things and still do well with search rankings.

Google: When It Comes To SEO, Nobody Knows Everything

Google’s John Mueller said the other day that “SEO is not belief-based, nobody knows everything, and it changes over time.” Super true, I’ve been covering SEO changes over the years and I spot this all the time.

What the ransom note won’t say

An attack is what you see, but a business operation is what you’re up against

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 20, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google Search Tests Opening Search Results In New Window

Google is reportedly testing opening search results in a new window. Yes, there is a setting to turn this on or off, but the setting is turned off and Google is testing opening these clicks in a new window.

Microsoft Bing Offers IndexNow Support To The Internet Archive

The folks at the Internet Archive are having issues with archiving the web. Something it has done since 1996 and is such a foundational website that it is sad to see. That being said, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing wants to help.