SearchEngineJournal.com published a piece on how Google treats.ai. As most know .ai domains have been doing very well this year as far as sales. .Ai sales in 2023 have already surpassed the full year of 2022. This is the question that was asked: “Should a global company use the .ai domain as their gTLD or is it considered by Google as a ccTLD for the country of Anguilla?” Google’s … [Read more...]
Google says to avoid cheap TLD’s
Matt G.Southern published a piece yesterday on SearchEngineJournal.com that deals with Google and their opinion of cheap new gtlds. Google's remarks came from a Search Relations Team podcast. From the article: In response to Mueller’s question about whether to use a more affordable domain like .xyz or invest in a more common one like .com, Illyes stated: … [Read more...]
Squarespace to acquire Google Domains assets
Squarespace is buying the domain business of Google. This purchase includes approximately 10 million domains hosted on Google Domains spread across millions of customers. Squarespace issued a press release, from the release: Upon closing, Squarespace, a long- time reseller of Google Workspace, will become the exclusive domains provider for any customer purchasing a domain along with their … [Read more...]
If you have old Google accounts you want to keep, log in before they get deleted
If you have old Google accounts that you haven't used lately they are in danger of being deleted. I know I have a bunch of Google accounts where I used Gmail but nothing else and then stopped using the Gmail. They may have some emails in there I want to keep for whatever reason. If you haven't signed into an account for at least two years Google is going to delete starting in December of this … [Read more...]
Bard will be Google’s answer to ChatGPT
It looks like Google will be coming out with a rival to ChatGPT. They are calling their "experimental conversational AI service" Bard. In a blog post on Monday, Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai laid out what it entails. With so many people buying up keywordai in .com it's kinda cool Sundar's last name ends with Ai. Interestingly BardAi.com has been registered since 2003. Bard.ai is also registered. … [Read more...]
Could proposed Canadian law break the way Google is designed to function?
Canada is following in the footsteps of Australia in having Google pay news publishers for listing content. Last year Google agreed to pay for some Australian news. Canada is looking to pass the Online News Act. If it becomes law it would force tech companies to negotiate deals with news organizations for content that appears on their platforms. Matt G. Southern writes at … [Read more...]
Google ending it’s simplified domain experiment
Google will not move forward with their plans to replace the full URL displayed in the company's Chrome web browser with just the root domain name of the site. When Google announced this change there were many critics of the decision. gHacks.net is reporting that the so-called experiment did not bring about more relevant security metrics. So Google will not be moving forward and will rather … [Read more...]