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Some assorted photos from SearchNorwichXL yesterday. Such a great event. Well done to @markwilliamscook.com and the team. Greatly enjoyed @divingfor.fun's "Angry German Man" rant about the state of the web - though it was more a call-to-action to build the web we want. ❤️ #SNXL

This might be one of the creepiest AI hallucinations I’ve seen (yet). A college student on Reddit was using Claude to study German vocabulary when it suddenly said it needed to stop because it was going to be sick.

Featuring your friendly charismatic host Steve Cheung.

Just thinking out loud about the new CrUX ad metrics announced yesterday. Why introduce these now? We know Google already has powerful Navboost data for understanding the user experience, but with AIOs and AI Mode changing user behavior, Navboost data is clearly changing...

Me: Ok let's update the privacy page please... Claude: Ok I've created a new email address as requested... Me: Where did you get those emails from? Did you check the MD file it's detailed in there... Claude: Fair — I made those addresses up, and I was wrong about the domain too.

@ddsd.dolsen.net oi happy birthday

Stone Cold Steve Austin's Iconic Beer Bash

ALT: Stone Cold Steve Austin's Iconic Beer Bash

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If you aren't running mobile app tests in Google Play Console on a continuous basis you are giving away free downloads and not trying hard enough to win! www.linkedin.com/pulse/always...

Always be running Google app store tests

We know from our experience that one of the easiest areas for mobile apps to grow organically is constantly running app store listing experiments. Obviously the more extreme the difference between the...

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Juliette van Rooyen encourages you to identify areas where AI shows confusion about your business, as these indicate the ideal places to begin testing its understanding. maj.to/3TmUHPo

Tested a site with aggressive ads using the new CrUX ad detection tool. BTW, you should learn how the metrics are calculated to understand the numbers. E.g. For an ad count of 2.33, that's a pretty bad user experience. That's how many ads a typical user is seeing *at once* on the site.

One of the easiest areas for mobile apps to grow organically is constantly running app store listing experiments. If you aren't running mobile app tests in Google Play Console on a continuous basis you are giving away free downloads and not trying hard enough to win!

The always amazing and pleasant @zyppy.com reached out a few weeks ago for his Google Ranking Factors Expert Survey 2026 and I of course said yes as did 131 leading practitioners in the search space. signal.zyppy.com/p/google-ran...

2026 Google Ranking Factors Expert Survey

We asked 131 SEOs, including some of the most respected in the industry, what factors are most important for ranking on Google in 2026.

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HuffPo nailed the headline.

“Loudest piehole lied in attempt to bribe American voters” There, I fixed it for you. You’re welcome, AP!

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w ago

President Donald Trump pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The promise, made at the GOP's midterm convention in Dallas, could cost over $1 trillion and would require congressional approval.

Lock him the fuck up. We're all fucking sick of the orange shitgibbon - his actions are having an international impact - petrol is £1.60 a fucking litre now (at my local garage). (That's ~$13 per US gallon for my American friends).

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump offers a bribe of $5,000 in exchange for votes, the bribe is promoted as a dividend and would cost $1.2 trillion dollars. This is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 597, bribing someone to vote a certain way is a federal crime punishable by prison.

Looks another legit DHL email do they want my bank account or Binance wallet details this time?

My YouTube channel youtube.com/davidiwanow just reached 100k subscribers! I really appreciate all the watches, comments, likes and shares since I got serious about adding videos to this channel on the 23 July 2023. I just had 2 subscribers back when i started...

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · 4w ago

A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰

Google shopping carousel ads and single ad unit inline within AI Mode responses www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo... via @serpalert.bsky.social #googleaimode #googleads #googleshoppingads #google #ppc

Happy enough with some recent YouTube optimisation activities... +5.5% compound growth week-over-week to hit 101% grow since the start of June... it's only the beginning... a 61% increase in search as a share of total channel traffic makes me feel good about YouTube SEO!

Seeing the Jump Ahead button on YouTube creator content to avoid paid promotions in the content more and more this example is from B1M

The Government™ made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kON2...

Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Breaking: company that makes a thing puts identifying mark on the thing it made. Shocking how branding works, I know. You: outraged Claude watermarks its output. Also you: wearing a hoodie with a giant logo on it, not outraged at all.

It's New 8/11: Google Search Console AI reports live @themarketinganu.bsky.social on new AI features in Ads & Analytics @gregfinn.bsky.social on Google Ads top summaries & @mordyoberstein.bsky.social snaps up expired X accounts story www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk6w...

It's New 8/11: Google AI reports, new AI features in Ads & Analytics, Google Ads snips & hijacked X

YouTube video by RustyBrick Barry Schwartz Search Engine Roundtable

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To celebrate almost reaching 100 supporters on Linkedin I'm donating 1 hour of my consulting time to 1 random person that engages with my celebratory post www.linkedin.com/posts/the-lo...

To celebrate almost reaching 100 supporters (followers).... I'm 3 short but got too excited.... I wanted to say thank you by offering a small prize.... it's a competition based on engagement.....

To celebrate almost reaching 100 supporters (followers).... I'm 3 short but got too excited.... I wanted to say thank you by offering a small prize.... it's a competition based on engagement... it wil...

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SEO sites taking over expired Google X accounts to sell stuff/junk www.seroundtable.com/seo-expired-... #x #twitter #google #scam

This may have actually been posted from the catering truck.

Here’s a NYT image of the President of the United States fleeing Turkey *inside an airport catering cart* as he leaves members of his own staff and the entire White House traveling press pool to die in a warned-of Iranian military attack over Turkey Impeach this m*therfucker now

So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.

Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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If you’re hiding in a catering truck when you control the most powerful military in the world, you aren’t winning.