Google clarifies that soft 404 pages consume crawl budget, even when they return a 200 OK status. Here's how this affects your site.
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The AI companion space will soon see another new entrant. Elon Musk, the owner of xAI and social media platform X, announced recently, “We’re going to make Baby Grok @xAI, an app dedicated to kid-friendly content.”
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What made a Performance Max critic finally embrace it in both Google and Bing? Clear, measurable results proved automation can drive real value at scale.
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AI search favors clear, trustworthy content. Learn how to structure yours for maximum visibility in AI Overviews and chatbot responses.
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There’s an air of panic in the media world. The specter of AI has been looming large for a couple of years now, but the threat now appears to be solidifying. Publishers are reporting that search traffic is in free fall, and thereR
Costco is well-known for its no-questions-asked return policy. Now some shoppers are taking it upon themselves to test the limits of that policy.
“Returning my slime stained carpet to Costco,” one TikTok user posted earlier this month.
Costco offers cus
Google's Gary Illyes said they're still figuring out how to balance the needs of users and the web ecosystem
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Unitree Robotics právě zbořili trh s humanoidem R1. Nabízejí ho za 5 900 dolarů, což je pouhý zlomek částek, za které lze sehnat konkurenční humanoidy. Prozatím je R1 určený pro vývojáře, a nikoliv pro širokou veřejnost, ale na obzoru se rýsují velké změny. Těšíte se na domácí roboty? http://www.osel.cz/14177-cinsti-unitree-sokovali-trh-s-roboty-sportovnim-humanoidem-za-5-900-dolaru.html
Back in 2008, The Atlantic sparked controversy with a provocative cover story: “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
In that 4,000-word essay, later expanded into a book, author Nicholas Carr suggested the answer was yes, arguing that technology such as search engines worsened Americans’ ability to think deeply and retain know
For the first time, a satellite has used onboard AI to autonomously decide where and when to capture a scientific image — all in under 90 seconds, with no human input. The technology, called Dynamic Targeting, was tested by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (J
Energeticky náročné procesy těžkého průmyslu polykají spoustu fosilních paliv. Electrified Thermal Solutions to chtějí změnit se svým systémem Joule Hive Thermal Battery. Termální baterie z elektricky vodivých cihel E-bricks využívá elektřinu k produkci a uskladnění tepla až do 1 800 °C, což stačí pro řadu průmyslových aplikací. http://www.osel.cz/14176-cihlove-baterie-o-teplote-1-800-c-zajisti-energii-pro-ocelarny-a-cementarny.html
As AI evolves, the world of work is getting even better for the most creative, curious, and growth-minded employees. So says Aneesh Raman, LinkedIn’s chief economic opportunity officer. Raman has intriguing and urgent insights on why the career ladder is disappearing—and how AI will help transform it into more of a climbing wall, with a unique path for each of us. Lea
SureRank SEO plugin offers the basics that every site needs without the bloated features many users say they don't want.
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A company founder shared that Google deindexed their site because of scaled content, and what they did to get back into the search results.
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Čínští krystaloví mágové zvládli nesmírně složitý úkol a vytvořili krystal selenidu barya a gallia (BGSe) o průměru 60 milimetrů. Je největší na světě a měl by vydržet laserový paprsek o výkonu 550 MW na čtvereční centimetr. Takový krystal by mohl pohánět ultravýkonné lasery, které dostřelí na ohromnou vzdálenost, třeba až na orbitu. http://www.osel.cz/14175-v-cine-vyrobili-rekordne-velky-laserovy-krystal-pro-niceni-satelitu.html
It has, to date, been a calm hurricane season in the state of Florida, but any resident of the Southeast will tell you that the deeper into summer we go, the more dangerous it becomes.
There’s no stopping Mother Nature’s wrath, but a Florida-based tech company has come up with a way to help state officials begin recovery efforts after a storm blows through. The technology could event
TikTok has become obsessed with an alleged shoplifter who spent seven straight hours in a Target before being detained by security on her way out. Now, people are making pilgrimages to the Target store in Illinois.
The woman, a tourist visiting the U.S., allegedly stole approximately $1,300 worth of merchandise from Target on May 1. After body camera footage of her deta
Apple says the upcoming iOS 26, expected in a polished “release” version in September, will support devices back to the iPhone 11 from September 2019 and second-generation iPhone SE from April 2020—both with A13 Bionic processors. For those who don’t want to wait, the iOS 26 public beta release is
Get buy-in with hard numbers: traffic, conversions, AI visibility, and cost-saving data your clients care about.
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Google’s Search Relations team explains how CSS affects SEO, addressing myths about class names, pseudo elements, and page performance.
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In an AI search world, dry facts won’t cut it. Here’s how to write AI-friendly content without losing the human connection.
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“India is on the moon,” S. Somanath, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, announced in August 2023. The announcement meant India had joined the short list of countries to have visited the moon, and the applause and shouts of joy that followed signified that this achiev
ChatGPT appears to fall back on Google search snippets when it cannot retrieve data through Bing.
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Google wrapped Search Central APAC 2025 with insights on serving, ranking, and how it matches queries to content using contextual synonyms.
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Greetings, everyone, and welcome back to Fast Company’s Plugged In.
It was one of the best-received pieces of Apple news I can recall. At the company’s WWDC conference last month, it announced that its iPadOS 26 software upgrade would give the iPad a powerful new interface closely modeled on the one offered by the Mac. The resp
Ryan Panchadsaram, co-author of Speed and Scale, sits down on the podcast to explore the role of developers in combating climate change, how efficient coding practices help lower emissions, and how developers can contribute to open-source projects through GitHub’s Climate Action Plan that help drive forward sustainable technologies. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/25/saving-the-world-with-speed-and-at-scale/
This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about Special guest Ben Ramsey, the PHP Community Discord, PHP Community Mastodon, Open Source Licenses, AI in companies and code, HHVM, and more… Links from the show: PHP Community About – PHP Community on Mastodon php.internals: [RFC] Updating the PHP License HHVM | HHVM […]
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Good news: Vine might be coming back. Bad news: in AI form, courtesy of Elon Musk.
“We’re bringing back Vine, but in AI form,” Musk announced on X on Thursday. He did not elaborate further on his plans.
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The Pew Research Center's findings on AI and web traffic may be misleading due to major methodological gaps.
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Pevné látky i kapaliny je možné přehřát nad jejich bod tání, respektive bod varu. Fyzici si mysleli, že záhy poté dojde k entropické katastrofě, která explozivně nastolí skupenství látky odpovídající teplotě. V laboratořích SLAC ale dokázali přehřát zlato na více než 14násobek jeho bodu tání, změřili jeho teplotu a prokázali, že to s entropickou katastrofou není tak horké. http://www.osel.cz/14173-vedci-extremne-prehrali-zlato-a-neumyslne-vyvratili-letitou-teorii.html
A stable “release” version of Apple’s iOS 26 is due in September, but you can now try an in-progress version, called the public beta. It previews a revamped interface and new features in apps like Messages and Phone (both with
In June, Apple previewed the iPhone’s next operating system, iOS 26. Without a doubt, the headline feature of iOS 26 (yes, the iPhone’s OS has a new number system) is its complete design overhaul, known as “Liquid Glass.” The new design introduces a transparent look to iOS, utilizing animati
">Tear a tanktop in half today for Terry Bollea, the entertainer better known as Hulk Hogan, who has died at age 71.
Though he was a ">towering icon of the 1980s professional wrestling scene and seamlessly transitioned into ">“celebreality” TV in the aughts, Bollea’s most lasting contribution to our culture may have
Google launches Web Guide, an experimental AI feature that clusters search results into topic groups. Available now in Search Labs.
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The data nerds are fighting back.
After watching data sets be altered or disappear from U.S. government websites in unprecedented ways after President Donald Trump began his second term, an army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer
Zdálo by se, že se laserová fúze blíží k energetickému využití. Avšak některé technické překážky jsou natolik zásadní, že jsou v blízké budoucnosti jen obtížně překonatelné. http://www.osel.cz/14172-technicke-prekazky-laserove-fuze.html
Swedish AI startup Lovable says it has surpassed $100mn in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just eight months after launch. This makes it the fastest-ever software company to reach the milestone — eclipsing the historically rapid growth rates o
Swiss startup Jua has launched an AI-powered weather forecaster that it says beats leading models from tech giants — potentially making it the world’s most accurate weather forecasting system. Jua claims its model — dubbed EPT-2 — is f
Chris Guillebeau spent years racing against time, visiting all 193 countries before he turned 35, hosting annual gatherings of thousands, and writing bestsellers like The $100 Startup. But his latest book, Time Anxiety, tackles something different: our collective panic about never having enough hours in the day.
What Google says about indexing, tokenization, AI images, and geotargeting from day two of Search Central Live APAC 2025.
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Google has launched new AI-powered shopping tools, including virtual try-on, enhanced price alerts, and upcoming design inspiration features.
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Query fan-out helps plan deeper content for AI search, but it’s only step one. This guide shows how to connect it to real-world retrieval.
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As my family settles into a whole new city and community, I’ve been eagerly exploring a variety of sites and services for discovering new gems and getting to know our area. And while our recent cross-country move is what inspired me to seek out such tools, I’ve quickly realized these same resources could be every bit as useful in any scenario—whether you’re visiting a new locale or even just looking for fresh inspiration in your existing everyday terrain.
Today, I
More than a decade ago, Pramod Sharma set out to make learning more engaging. Through AI and computer vision, his startup Osmo transformed iPad apps into hands-on experiences, letting kids use puzzle pieces and other physical objects to solve spelling and math problems on screen.
It was a lot of fun—until Osmo gr
Google's Gary Illyes confirmed that standard SEO is all you need to rank in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
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Google has just unveiled an alpha version of its Trends API at Google Search Central Live, Deep Dive APAC 2025. This new offering brings explore-page data directly into applications. The API will provide consistently scaled search interest figures. These figures align more predictably than the current website numbers. Announced by Daniel Waisberg and Hadas Jacobi, the Alpha will be opening up from today, and they are looking for testers who will use the Alpha throughout 2025. The API will not
If you can’t afford a lawyer, it turns out there’s nothing stopping you from sending a scary-looking letter that, at first glance, seems to come from one—and hoping the recipient doesn’t read the fine print too closely.
That’s the idea behind Heavyweight, a tool that lets you take any complaint and format it with an official-looking letterhead, without ever actually claiming to be from a real lawyer.
“If you’ve ever received a legal notice like a Cease and Desist, y
Webb hleděl do mladičkého vesmíru a našel tam spoustu Malých červených teček, které se zřejmě vymykají tomu, co zatím o vesmíru víme. Podle extravagantní hypotézy Deveshe Nandala a Avi Loeba jde o supermasivní hvězdy z nejstarší populace vesmíru, které by měly mít nulovou metalicitu a hmotnost milionů Sluncí. http://www.osel.cz/14171-zahadne-male-cervene-tecky-z-usvitu-vesmiru-mohou-byt-zarodky-superhvezd.html
All right, settle in, folks, because today we’re going to try to out-Google Google with the next generation of search: Perplexity.
So, what exactly is Perplexity, and how’s it different from other AI chatbo
Google’s Q2 earnings show AI Overviews are increasing search activity, with new data suggesting they drive over 10% more queries.
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Tokenization has long been a buzzword for crypto enthusiasts, who have been arguing for years that blockchain-based assets will change the underlying infrastructure of financial markets.
The technology is seen as rapidly increasing in coming years, especially in the U.S., helped by the passage of three new bills. President Donald Trump’s administration has eased regulation of the bro
Ding dong ditching has resurfaced as the “door kick challenge.” But this time it could lead to criminal charges and potentially deadly consequences.
In Florida this week, five minors were caught on camera participating in the challenge. Instead of simply knocking and running, footage shows one individual approaching a front door, kicking it repeatedly, then firing an airsoft gun before fleeing the scene,
Alphabet beat Wall Street estimates for its second quarter on Wednesday, and cited massive demand for its cloud computing services as it hiked its capital spending plans for the year to about $85 billion.
The search giant beat estimates for quarterly revenue and profit on the back of new
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Google has released an open-source tool that lets large language models like Gemini connect to Google Analytics, enabling natural conversations with your data.
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When discovery is missing, platform work starts to drift from its real purpose, which is empowering engineers to deploy working software faster and with confidence. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/23/building-better-platforms-with-continuous-discovery/
It’s been said that online dating killed the meet cute. Now, as people struggle with dating app burnout, some are supposedly resorting to stealing men’s lunches for a chance at creating their own.
In a now-viral post, one TikTok user claims she’s heard of single women nipping into Sweetgreen loc
An artificial intelligence agenda that started coalescing on the podcasts of Silicon Valley billionaires is now being forged into U.S. policy as
Spotify has been hit with another AI controversy after publishing computer-generated songs under the names of dead musicians. An investigation by 404 Media found that Spotify is releasing AI-generated songs on the pages of deceased artists — without approval
Europe’s deep tech future hinges on evolving investment strategies. The reason for this is that traditional funding models cannot support the long-term financial commitments that innovation demands. There is a European paradox where, despite substantial scien
Tesla is likely to post its biggest drop in quarterly revenue in more than a decade on Wednesday, as the EV maker grapples with issues including
It’s not every day that U.S. nuclear facilities, the Department for Education, and governments across Europe and the Middle East are breached in a single hack. But then again, the vulnerability identified in Microsoft’s document collaboration tool, SharePoint, this weekend isn’t your ordinary issue. It has found a chink in the armor of one of the most widely used suites of software a
A Trenta Starbucks is no longer cutting it. The latest coffee trend has people ordering their iced lattes by the bucket.
Earlier this year, independent coffee shops started going viral on TikTok for serving 34-ounce iced lattes in plastic buckets. “POV: You live in the same era as coffee buckets,”
Day 1 of Search Central Live APAC focused on AI in crawling and indexing, evolving user behavior, and keeping SEO grounded in human-first content.
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Proton is getting into generative AI with an assistant called Lumo, which it pitches as a more private alternative to ChatGPT.
While Lumo will offer a similar chat-based interface with support for web search and file analysis, Proton says it won’t store records of users’ conversations or use them to train AI. Lumo is available for free
What happens when you spend decades seeding salacious stories about evil lurking in the halls of power, demanding evidence to prove basic truths, and questioning the veracity of that evidence once it’s presented?
Donald Trump is finding out.
Over the last week, the president has been trying to fight his way out of a web of his own creation, as some of his truest followers in MAGA world call for the full release of the government’s investigative files concerning conv
America’s demand for new infrastructure is surging, driven by the AI data center boom, clean energy projects, and a growing national housing crunch. Yet just as the country needs to build faster than ever, it’s facing a mounting challenge: a severe construction labor shortage. The U.S. construction industry is already