The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Why Are Kids Throwing Fruit in Toilets?
This week’s deep dive into young people culture answers questions you may not have thought to ask, like, “Why are young people throwing fruit in their toilets?” “What does it mean when someone tells me to ‘visualize spinning apples’?” “What is glass skin?” and “How can Minecraft help you understand the age of the universe?” […]
I Tried ‘PhotoCraft,’ the AI Clone of Photoshop, and It’s Almost Exactly Like the Real Thing
Love it or hate it, AI is changing tech at a rapid pace. Case in point: AI is now being used to reverse-engineer big-name software packages. Once complete, developers upload the cloned versions online as open-source tools that anyone can use for free. It seems no company is immune from these dupes, no matter how […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 12, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google: Poor Image Quality Won’t Stop Products From Showing In Search Or Ads
Google has updated its Google Merchant Center low image quality help document to now say that poor image quality will not stop those products from showing in Google Search or Google Ads.
Google AI Overviews For Typos & No Search Results
Yes, Google often shows AI Overviews when Google Search cannot match specific web pages or when it thinks your query is a typo. In fact, Google AI Overviews can respond by saying, “It looks like your message might have been a typo or random keyboard input.”
Bing & Copilot Experimenting With Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft announced Microsoft-Decision-1 last week and it is already being experimented with in both Bing Search and Copilot. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a “decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models,” Microsoft said.
Google Ads Tests Using Google AI For Goals & Assets
Google is testing using AI to come up with suggested goals and assets for your Google Ads campaigns. Google has confirmed this is a current test.
Third-Party Google Rank Tracking Struggling Now
Google seems to be successfully blocking enough of the attempts of scrapers from trying to scrape data from its search results page over the past few weeks than it has in a long time. We reported this a few weeks ago, and I am surprised to see that many tools still struggle with Google Search […]
He Doesn’t Own These Rentals (But They Helped Him Quit His Job)
Most rookies think you need dozens of rentals before you can walk away from your job. But what if the fastest way to replace your income didn’t require building a […]
From $12/Hour to 3 Rental Properties and Traveling the World
Anyone can invest in real estate. You don’t need a fancy degree, a big bank account, or a high-paying job to get started. Arden Williams and his then-girlfriend were both […]
Google Search Console Performance Report Extremely Delayed
The search performance reports in Google Search Console is now over 64 hours delayed, which is incredibly unusual for this report. Generally, we see this report updated within a few hours but over the past few days, post-spam update, the report has been lagging.
Five New Features Coming to Your iPhone in iOS 27.2
If you’re like most people, you might still be getting used to iOS 27 on your iPhone. Perhaps you haven’t even installed it yet, or maybe you’re confused about why iOS 27.0.1 exists. (The short answer: The iPhone 18 Pro is a bit glitchy.) But there’s a new iPhone update on the horizon that adds […]
10 Shows Like ‘Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story’ You Should Watch Next
We may earn a commission from links on this page. The Ian Brennan/Ryan Murphy true crime anthology series Monster is back with its first trip into the more distant past, taking us back to 1892 to examine one of the most famous and discussed murderers in American history: Lizzie Borden, a woman said to have […]
I Tested Google’s New AI Image Detector, and It’s Difficult (but Not Impossible) to Trick
An abundance of AI imagery is something we all have to live with these days—from school posters to restaurant menus—and while there are still certain tells that indicate something was made with AI, they’re not always present. In a lot of cases, it can be almost impossible to distinguish an AI image from a real […]
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 9, 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 launched a new UGC fresh data program document that Reddit…
