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Google is now sending push notifications to some users that direct that user to a search within AI Mode. Yes, Google is pushing users to do queries in AI Mode using push notification services from the Google app.

Google Ads will be updating the Google Ads Healthcare and Medicines policy to reflect the changes it will require to the approach to advertiser use of prescription drug terms.

Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policies to now allow for the sale of physical goods subscriptions. Google said this "will be available to all eligible Shopping ad merchants in the United States."

This resonates so hard. The tech industry’s obsession with LARPing roles in the public sphere has really hurt our ability to work with people who care and want to do the best work of their lives without silly distraction.

I think it’s unlikely the industry will get much better at identifying and evaluating candidates anytime soon. And so I’m sure we’ll continue to see posts about the importance of your LinkedIn profile, or your GitHub, or your passion project. But you neglect at your...

Well, today I learned about the consequences of population decline:

The U.S. cannot grow through native-born fertility alone. As immigration collapses, the US population will stagnate and even shrink. Urban economics will buckle. Fields will go unharvested. Homes will go unbuilt. Sick Americans will go untreated. Life-saving medicines will go undiscovered. Many voters hated the era of record immigration. They might hate the era of record deportations even more.

Yes I know this sounds...

Man. Standing ovation to this quote. I just want to know!!!

I’m not here to debate if the jump from lossy AAC to lossless ALAC is audible. Many people say they cannot hear the difference between the two (lucky them). Others say they can. Most importantly for any comments section, that second group is not seeking permission from the first group to stream losslessly. Apple Music supplies ‘Lossless’ and ‘Hi-Res Lossless’ streams at no extra cost to the subscriber, and some listeners just...

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.

Bing now supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute...

Microsoft has added support for the data-nosnippet HTML Attribute for Bing Search. This was previously not supported but yesterday, Microsoft announced it is "introducing the data-nosnippet HTML attribute."

New data from AlsoAsked put AI-generated people also ask in Google Search at 38%. These are people also ask responses labeled as AI generated and that number jumped from 17.8% just a few months ago.

Google added Nano Banana Gemini image features to Google Search through Google Lens. There is a new option named Create mode that unlocks the Nano Banana feature.