736 | News from the EDGE | Week of 12.16.2024

Our LAST News show of the year! Thanks to all of our listeners for making this year another successful year for EDGE of the Web! Let us know your thoughts of the show at https://ratethispodcast.com/EDGE

Stories! “As the WordPress Turns” (you gotta check out the YouTube on this one). The Mullenweg Meltdown continues. Musk wants to bring a challenge to GMail, DM style. A huge exploit documented by friend of the show, Mark Williams-Cook. Please check out our second episode of our interview with Mark, as we dive into this insight into additional ranking signals from Google. 

Some AI news, AI-powered reporting at Google Ads as well as Gemini 2.0 coming to Search.

A fleet of articles from Barry - always check out Search Engine Roundtable to catch up with his daily postings.

Thanks again to our wonderful audience! We wish you a very, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We’ll see you on the flip side!

Best,

EDGE of the Web Team

 

News from the EDGE:

[00:03:16] Elon Musk Is Gearing Up to Challenge Gmail with His Own Email Service

[00:06:50] (As the WordPress Turns) Mullenweg Outraged as WP Engine is Allowed to Regain Access

[00:10:43] EDGE of the Web Title Sponsor: Site Strategics 

[00:11:53] Exploit Unveils Google's Content Ranking Secrets

AI News:

[00:15:26] Google Ads Tests AI-Powered Reporting Tool

[00:17:24] Google Gemini 2.0 coming to Search and AI Overviews

AI Tools:

[00:18:48] Google Whisk

[00:20:10] EDGE of the Web Sponsor: InLinks

Barry Blast from Search Engine Roundtable:

[00:21:31] Google Business Profile Emails Asking To Add Social Profiles

[00:23:55] Google To Have More Core Updates, More Often

[00:27:16] Google December 2024 Core Update Landed & It's Big

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