615 | News from the EDGE | Week of 8.7.2023

Master’s of MozCon

We’re back in business as Mordy makes his return for this episode of the news! This past week Moz held MozCon, unveiling Brand Authority Metric to enable businesses to measure their brand’s strength. Google wants all published content to be available to AI for training purposes…how is this healthy for the web? Google’s stirring the pot, but we’ve got what you need to stay in the loop on this week’s News from the EDGE!

News from the EDGE:

• [00:05:03] Moz Launches Brand Authority Metric At MozCon With Top 500 US Brands List<
• [00:08:05]
  EDGE of the Web Sponsor: Site Strategics
• [00:09:13] Google Ranking Algorithm Research Introduces TW-BERT<
• [00:16:20] Google says all online content should be available for AI training unless publishers opt-out
• [00:24:52]
  EDGE of the Web Sponsor: Brightlocal

AI Blitz:

• [00:26:37] Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will ‘drop significantly’

AI Tools:

• [00:27:41] VocalReplica
• [00:28:43] Looka
• [00:29:17]
  EDGE of the Web Sponsor: InLinks

Barry Blast from Search Engine Roundtable:

• [00:30:28]: Google Search Major League Baseball “Recent Featured Highlights”
• [00:32:54]: Google: Maybe Don’t Let Google Search Index Your AI Chatbot Output

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