Articles tagged as "search"

This morning I read a piece by The Verge that outlined how the modern web is being shaped almost entirely around SEO, even when authors don’t want it to be. I took a quick look at my Google Search Console, and to my surprise I was actually getting impressions for some search terms other than my name. I’ve never actually tried to engineer the SEO for this blog in any way, as I don’t have any need to. This site doesn’t generate any revenue, and reader numbers only serve as feedback to me that I am writing something worth reading.

I want you to imagine, just for a second, that I had written a breathtaking piece about rabbits. Right here in this very blog post were the most exceptional rabbit facts you had ever seen. They were novel. They were insightful. They were downright inspired. Being the normal internet citizen you are, you decided to share the article with your rabbit-loving friends. “Here!” you say into your legions of followers, “feast your eyes on this!”

I’m too young to remember a time where “Google” wasn’t a verb. With the ability to search the internet, we have changed the world from one in which information was static, locked up in libraries across geographies, to a single, simple, snappy interface where we can ask the world our questions. “What temperature should I set the over to for pizza?” or “When is the next Toronto Maple Leafs game?” or, most dramatic, “What is the meaning of life?”

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves in various industries, including marketing, healthcare, and education. But one aspect of AI that has been gaining significant attention is its ability to generate written content. With the help of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms, AI can create new written content faster and more efficiently than humans. While this may seem like a boon for businesses and content creators, it is also likely to make the internet a noisier place.