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Bing Homepage Showcases Art Installment Of 2,000 American Flags To Celebrate Veterans Day

Bing is celebrating Veterans Day today by featuring an image on its homepage from the Covina Rotary’s Club Field of Valor, an art installment of 2,000 American flags constructed on the grounds of a Covina, California school. The homepage includes links to: More images of the...
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Google limits access to news content in Canada

Google confirmed this test will impact 4% of Canadians. It’s similar to what Google did in Australia in 2021. Google is conducting a small test where the search company is blocking news content in Google Search for fewer than 4% of Canadian users for the next few weeks. A...
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Twitter announces the end of CoTweets

Twitter discontinues co-tweeting feature after it failed to meet expectations under Elon Musk’s leadership. Twitter has just announced the end of CoTweets. They put out a statement in their Help Center that the new feature, which started in July, will be sunset by the end...
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Microsoft proposes AI ads in Bing

Microsoft has not provided a timeline for when brands will be able to directly purchase ads within the chatbot. During a recent private meeting with a leading ad agency, Microsoft presented a demo of the updated Bing and revealed its intention to permit paid links within search...
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Bing limits chat sessions as OpenAI founder says AI tools are ‘somewhat broken’

Following multiple reports of its chatbot getting confused, Microsoft caps how many questions users can ask per session and day. Bing chat sessions are now capped at 50 questions per day and 5 per session, Microsoft announced. There have been many bad examples shared of the new...
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Amazon Wants Employees In-Office Three Days a Week

Amazon has informed employees that they must return to the office three days a week, reversing a previous remote work policy. In October 2021, Amazon’s leadership decided to leave it up to individual teams to dictate whether members would need to be in-office or could work...
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Adobe CEO: Pandemic Was Inflection Point For Everything Being Digital

“What the pandemic and the current health situation has done is that it has created yet another inflection point for everything being digital,” says Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. “The importance of digital in the marketplace is going to be sustainable for decades. You’re not going...
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Yelp’s new home feed looks like a certain popular social media app

The new feed shows users Popular Dishes and Yelp Connect posts based on physical proximity to the business, the popularity of a dish in reviews and the recency of the content. Yelp is introducing a new home feed experience, consisting of a vertical feed of visual content from...
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The Searcher’s Guide To Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Holiday Shopping

This year, U.S. shoppers now have more opportunities than ever to join the throngs scrambling to secure holiday bargains, thanks to many brick and mortar stores opening ever earlier and staying open ever longer. Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving sales lollapalooza,...
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Google is now allowing products in all countries to use a single Merchant Center feed

The new feed labels will be rolled out over the next couple of weeks and give advertisers more control of their campaigns. The Google Merchant Center has introduced a new feed label for advanced users that removes the concept of one target country being the primary country for a...