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Tech in court, NYT homepage curation secrets, X vs Australia, and OpenAI's charm offensive - all in this week's Content Aware.
Legal eagles coming home to roost
Something is circling over Google and it can't be good for its future. Our resident mystic Rob looks at what might be the next steps for Google after a week of legal woes.
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Google's new ADdition to AI Overviews
Ads on the way to Google AI Overviews, "sponsored" placements next to non-sponsored content, drawn from Google Shopping and Search campaigns. This is assumedly where they place glue adverts next to the AI-generated results for making a pizza?
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OpenAI 's charm offensive pays off
OpenAI's bots used to be those most commonly blocked by major news publishers to prevent content from being scraped. After putting its hands in its pockets to pay publishers for content, the block rate of its bots has dropped significantly. Is the charm offensive working, or money is talking? Why not both!
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Twitter? Never heard of it!
X found itself on the losing end of an unpleasant legal tussle Down Under after claiming that the dispute was a Twitter problem, not an X problem.
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NYT's homepage secrets
New York Times' data scientist Zhen Yang reveals the tactics employed by the newspaper titan in managing their homepage content with the help of editorially-driven algorithms. The outcome? Increases in engagement and improved editorial workflows.
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EU 1 more, Meta 0
Coming after multiple GDPR challenges, fines, and restrictions on data transfer, Meta has taken another hit in the EU, with the bloc's top court restricting their use of user data for targeted ads. Another notch in the belt of Meta restrictions in the EU, unlikely the last.
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Google Discover glitch
Google Discover threw some facing global disruptions, with users in some regions such as Spain seeing old content instead of the latest news. Check your stats data to see if you were affected - rather than think you did something wrong, it might just have been our old friend again.
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US District Judge, open up!
Following a lawsuit by Epic Games, a US Judge has ordered Google to open its Play Store and allow other third party app stores and payment methods. Lawyers will of course appeal the ruling, claiming it will harm consumers and developers and probably slow the rotation of the Earth. Stay tuned.
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