New Street Research found Google continues to lead in use for search but lags in AI use, and more males than females ask AI chatbots for help when trying to determine what to purchase.
I thought it would be easy to switch search engines if Google no longer served as the default on my iPhone, but could I accept the switch to Bing like 33% of participants in this recent survey?
Ouna, a Hebrew reference from the Israeli-based company, translated into English means a "lobe of the brain." It represents the company's push into AI supported by research.
Some say generative AI will never replace traditional search engines, but the change could come sooner than expected - especially if consumers show a willingness to take the leap.
With Amazon, the focus is on product reviews, while for Microsoft, it's about reliably sourcing election information.
Forrester Research released predictions Tuesday for advertising and media, including one that generative AI will help Google sustain its dominance in search and as a "source of truth," despite giving
up a small number of queries to Microsoft Bing.
Ad and marketing agencies are split on how to price paid ad and organic services. Many marketers still prioritize optimizing keyword research despite all the technology available to do tasks, a survey
found.
Global ad spend is on track to grow 4.4% to $963.5 billion in 2023, rising 8.2% to more than $1 trillion in 2024, which will be the first year expenditures top the trillion-dollar mark, according to
the World Advertising Research Center, with five companies responsible for the uptick.
Wall Street analysts have analyzed keyword search insights to identify trends for years. Colin Sebastian, senior research analyst at RW Baird, tracks search terms in relation to ups and downs impacted
by the firm's stock coverage and categories. The swings reveal demand.
In preview through Azure Cognitive search, Vector Search uses machine learning to capture the meaning and context of unstructured data, such as images and text. The idea is to make search faster.
Marketers of consumable products will have a few challenges this month as searches on Google for information on alternatives to Aspartame surge.
A group of UC Berkeley students and faculty members conducted an experiment that allowed people to compare two generative AI models simultaneously, giving models the ability to compete for the best
response.
Bing users on desktop can now talk to the chatbot and it will reply audibly. Microsoft has rolled out voice support for the search engine's chatbot on the Edge browser for desktop. It's based on
generative AI.
Sebastien Bubeck, lead author on the paper about artificial general intelligence, has documented complex behaviors exhibited by the system during the past several months.
Citizen Lab analyzed eight popular search platforms in China for censorship rules controlling content, which may be doing more harm than good outside the country.
Moves by Google and Microsoft to integrate generative AI into their respective ad businesses will change the way marketers create ad campaigns, and will transform the entire technology ecosystem.
The Acxiom CEO sees generative AI tech as transformative for advertising, and says the underlying technology must be understood to create benefits for marketers and brands. "You can argue that
chatbots are the world's best plagiarist," he said. "They lack creativity, as they simply copy the existing work products and content."
More marketers plan to increase rather than decrease ad and marketing budgets in 2023, according to a study spanning B2C and B2B from NP Digital.
Wildfire Systems, a platform that powers reward programs, collaborated with research firm Big Village to survey more than 1,000 U.S. adults about shopping rewards programs including cashback,
discounts, and other money-saving tools. Here's what they found.
Tubular Labs, which provides insights from a variety of platforms, added data from search and domain activity to its Consumer Insights product to support advertisers, creators and publishers.
Some 57% of retailers in a survey said most of their customers begin their shopping journey on Google or Amazon. Nearly 1 in 3 retailers with the highest sales performance say they spend too much on
search engine marketing and optimization efforts to garner new prospects, with the remainder most likely to say they are spending slightly too much.
On Monday Apple announced the acquisition of Primephonic, a classical music-streaming service offering a listening experience with search and browse functions optimized for classical music.
Customer satisfaction with search engines and information sites fell for Verizon Media's AOL by 3%, remained stable for Google and Bing and improved by 1% for all others like Yahoo, Ask, MSN, and
Answers, according to data released Tuesday. Twitter fell by 10% in 2021 compared with 2020.
The latest report focuses on behavior and trends in various subjects, including travel, retail, health and wellness, technology and finance.
The NewtonX Graph uses APIs to interface with private databases from partners including recruiting firms, professional associations, trade associations and conference organizers, data providers and
search engines such as Dow Jones Factiva, Bing, Google, LinkedIn, and Xing, among others. It scans for professionals that match customer criteria.
Research takes a higher priority this holiday season on sites including Amazon, Bing, and Google, brand and retail websites, and review sites. Video sites also give consumers a place to research
products and learn how to use them
Combating conspiracy theories and removing dangerously misleading content has been daunting during the 2020 election period for tech firms.
Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi suggests in a research note that Apple should purchase the privacy search engine DuckDuckGo for about $1 billion to gain ad dollars and put pressure on Google,
according to one report.
Bing, with help from Microsoft Research, is using Natural Language Representation models to improve results on each search. On Tuesday the Microsoft search engine introduced a feature that serves a
one-word answer for queries, as well as a carousel of related excerpts from a variety of resources.
While COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders have impacted all industries in the past few months, the search term "Coronavirus exit phase" continues to rise, up 232% by May 15, according to recent CodeFuel
data.