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Michael Martinez :verified:<p>How do you get rid of AI Overviews? Google made it simple and easy. There's a menu option. Those of you who are writing articles about how hard it is to avoid AI Overviews need to stop. You don't even need to log in.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/webmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/digitalmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/howto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>howto</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/tips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tips</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/serps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>serps</span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>I wrote a new thing today on Recollect.</p><p>"When You Read Patents, You Should Check Names &amp; Topics"</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aimode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aimode</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://notes.recollect.fyi/ggRxBUaM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">notes.recollect.fyi/ggRxBUaM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>"Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240289407A1/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patents.google.com/patent/US20</span><span class="invisible">240289407A1/en</span></a> ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.</p><p>"Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20250124067A1/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patents.google.com/patent/US20</span><span class="invisible">250124067A1/en</span></a> ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.</p><p>"User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2025102041A1/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patents.google.com/patent/WO20</span><span class="invisible">25102041A1/en</span></a> ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ).</p><p>"Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024064249A1/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patents.google.com/patent/WO20</span><span class="invisible">24064249A1/en</span></a> ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).</p><p>"Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20240256965A1/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patents.google.com/patent/US20</span><span class="invisible">240256965A1/en</span></a> ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. <a href="https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-0870/23-0870.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-08</span><span class="invisible">70/23-0870.pdf</span></a> ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> ).</p><p>This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US11769017B1/en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">patents.google.com/patent/US11</span><span class="invisible">769017B1/en</span></a> )</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aimode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aimode</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>machinelearning</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengines</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/generativesearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generativesearch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/webmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/digitalmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/patents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>patents</span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>So now that everyone is so angry at <a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> they're just going to take their Websites and go home, you can still let other search engines crawl your sites and use them to search the Web.</p><p>* Brave (via some mysterious unnamed crawling process, AI summaries are optional)<br>* DuckDuckGo (via Bing w/o AI summaries)<br>* Ecosia (via Bing and Google w/o AI summaries)<br>* Naver (Korean search engine)<br>* Qwant (via Bing)<br>* Seznam (the Czech search engine)<br>* Yandex (the English version of the search engine everyone now hates more than Google)</p><p>If YOU use these search engines, you'll realize that OTHER PEOPLE use them, too. More importantly, you can make them more popular just the way you made Google more popular than Hotbot, Altavista, Lycos, et. al, 20 years ago. It comes down to what YOU choose to do. Search engines don't magically become popular. They need people to use them and provide them with content.</p><p>If you're not happy with your relationship with Google, there are other search engines out there. Build new relationships.</p><p>And you have other options, too. For details, see my collected works ...</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengines</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/webmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/digitalmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aimode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aimode</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.seo-theory.com/how-to-replace-your-lost-google-traffic/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">seo-theory.com/how-to-replace-</span><span class="invisible">your-lost-google-traffic/</span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>Y'all need to stop the fear-mongering about "end of SEO as we know it" and "SEO apocalypse", etc. This industry has seen massive algorithmic and UX upheaval before. You just look amateurish when you go on like that.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/webmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengines</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aimode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aimode</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/digitalmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalmarketing</span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>Uh oh ...</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a></p>
Michael Martinez :verified:<p>To all SEO pundits currently explaining AI Overviews to the unlistening Web: if your articles don't at least mention Gemini then it's clear you have no idea of what you're talking about.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/seo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seo</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/searchengineoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>searchengineoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/webmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/digitalmarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalmarketing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a></p>
Athanasius<p>For anyone using Firefox and wanting to use Google search whilst avoiding the "AI Overviews" I worked up a simple "OpenSearch" engine that can be quickly installed.</p><p>This *might* also work in other browsers if they support this OpenSearch definition.</p><p>Find it on my website: <a href="https://miggy.org/misc/firefox-google-search-no-ai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">miggy.org/misc/firefox-google-</span><span class="invisible">search-no-ai.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/noai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noai</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/googlenoai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlenoai</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/googlewebview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlewebview</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a></p>
DAIR Institute<p>Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 35 - AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire</p><p><a href="https://peertube.dair-institute.org/videos/watch/eccd6471-df2f-44f3-b8ed-75c296eaef3e" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube.dair-institute.org/vi</span><span class="invisible">deos/watch/eccd6471-df2f-44f3-b8ed-75c296eaef3e</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"If this same incorrect or controversial information simply appears in its web results, those ideas are presented as the views of their authors only and <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> is simply playing the part of librarian. However, the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/AIOverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIOverviews</span></a> section is presented as the voice of Google speaking directly to the user and benefits from all of the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/trust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trust</span></a> users have placed in the company during its 25-year history."</p><p><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/cringe-worth-google-ai-overviews" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tomshardware.com/tech-industry</span><span class="invisible">/artificial-intelligence/cringe-worth-google-ai-overviews</span></a></p>
Athanasius HAS MOVED<p>For anyone using <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> and wanting to use <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> whilst avoiding the 'AI Overviews' I've just run up a simple 'OpenSearch' engine that can be quickly installed.</p><p>This *might* also work in other browsers if they support this OpenSearch definition.</p><p>Find it on my website: <a href="https://miggy.org/misc/firefox-google-search-no-ai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">miggy.org/misc/firefox-google-</span><span class="invisible">search-no-ai.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/noai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>noai</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/googlenoai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlenoai</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/googlewebview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>googlewebview</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/aioverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aioverviews</span></a></p>
Tech Chilli<p>What Is Google AI Overviews? Key Features And How To Access It?</p><p>See here - <a href="https://techchilli.com/artificial-intelligence/what-is-google-ai-overviews-features-and-how-to-access-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techchilli.com/artificial-inte</span><span class="invisible">lligence/what-is-google-ai-overviews-features-and-how-to-access-it/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIOverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIOverviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SearchLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SearchLabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleSearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechInnovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UserExperience</span></a></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p>Sounds like not enough people have opted into the Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) labs feature 🤷🏻‍♂️<br>-----<br>"Why we care: These <a href="https://noc.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> answers may push down both the organic and standard <a href="https://noc.social/tags/SearchAds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SearchAds</span></a>. It may result in less, or potentially more, traffic to your site, depending on where the citations are referenced from and where Google places the ads"</p><p><a href="https://noc.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> starts testing <a href="https://noc.social/tags/AIOverviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIOverviews</span></a> from SGE in main <a href="https://noc.social/tags/GoogleSearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleSearch</span></a> interface<br><a href="https://searchengineland.com/google-starts-testing-ai-overviews-from-sge-in-main-google-search-interface-438680" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">searchengineland.com/google-st</span><span class="invisible">arts-testing-ai-overviews-from-sge-in-main-google-search-interface-438680</span></a></p>