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Google Ads VP Emails Chrome & Search Team For Ranking Tweaks & Query Injections From Chrome

A new email was leaked as part of the DOJ investigation, this was was from Jerry Dischler, the Vice President of Google Ads. The email was to Prabhakar Raghavan, who leads up all of search including Google Search and Google Ads but also to the leads of the Chrome team.

IndexNow Added To Wix

Wix now supports IndexNow, the Microsoft initiative to make indexing more efficient and faster. With that, Microsoft said, “more than 60 million websites are publishing over 1.4 billion URLs per day to the IndexNow API.”

Bing Chat History For Personalized Answers Only For Edge Now

Last week, we reported about the new Bing Chat personalized answers feature that uses your chat history to give you a more tailored answer to your queries. But that might only work in Edge, Microsoft’s browser.

Google Rolls Out Updates To The Search Generative Experience Including Algorithm Improvements

Google has rolled out some updates to the Search Generative Experience (SGE) the company announced on its blog. One update is that SGE should now respond with higher-quality, more accurate responses, the second update is to write responses on sensitive topics based on Google’s quality and safety principles. Google also released the about this result […]

Google Local Chat With A Live Agent Rolling Out?

In May we reported Google was testing a “chat with a live agent” button for some local panels within Google Search. Well, that feature might be rolling out more fully now.

Google-Extended Is The New Google Crawler To Block Bard Or Google AI

Google has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from using your content, you specify so in your robots.txt with the user […]

Finance Friday: We Spend $12K a Month…Can We Still Retire in 10 Years?

Tyler and Jenna need to know how to retire in ten years or less so they can spend less time working and more time with their family. The problem? They’re […]

Simple Deals We’re Doing That Are Making MASSIVE Profits

If you want to know how to make millions of dollars in real estate, skip the rental properties, renovations, and rehabs and go straight for this type of “land investing.” […]

Actually Agents teams up with BAM, formerly Broke Agent Media

After years of mutual admiration and some friendly competition, two of the biggest real estate humor brands have decided to join forces at BAM.

MoxiWorks bridges 2 popular products to simplify lead response

The update allows users to directly access presentations and CMAs from MoxiPresent while working within MoxiEngage, the company’s popular customer relationship management solution.

Today’s NYT Connections Hints (and Answer) for September 29, 2023

If you’re looking for the Connections answer for Friday, September 29, 2023, read on—I’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solutions to all four categories. Beware, there are spoilers below for September 29, NYT Connections #110! Scroll down if you want some hints (and then the answer) to… Read more…

What Is a Landlord: Responsibilities, Pros & Cons For Investors

When you buy a rental property, you’ll either become a landlord or hire someone else to do it for you.

Franchisee drops misconduct claim against Keller Williams, Gary Keller

Inga Dow filed a notice in the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas on Monday dismissing claims against all but former KW CEO John Davis, who she said harassed and abused her while KW did nothing.

Pending home sales nosedive in August as interest rates soar

The Pending Home Sales Index dipped 7.1 percent to a measure of 71.8 between July and August, according to NAR.