Google's search engine is experiencing a significant drop in indexed URLs from Twitter due to the microblogging site's new rate limits. SearchEngineLand reported that the number of indexed tweets has decreased by over 60% to around 180 million tweets. A Google spokesperson confirmed that their ability to crawl Twitter.com has been limited, affecting their ability to display tweets and pages from the site in search results.

July 4 (Cointime) - Google has updated its privacy policy to allow for the use of publicly available data in its artificial intelligence (AI) training. The updated policy includes the addition of Google's AI models, Bard and Cloud AI, to the services that may be trained using this data. The update clarifies that anything publicly uploaded online could be used in Google's training processes for current and future AI systems. This update follows a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, which allegedly scraped private information from users without consent to train its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. There are rumors that Twitter's recent change in tweet access limits was partially due to AI data scraping.

Google's generative AI service, Bard, has reportedly been blocked from launching in the European Union by the Irish Data Protection Commission due to privacy concerns. Despite launching in the US, UK, and 178 other countries earlier this year, Google has been unable to bring Bard to the EU.

Google has announced the opening of access to new generative AI capabilities in Search through its Search Labs program. Users can sign up for experiments, including the Search Generative Experience, to test out the new features before they are widely released.

Microsoft is integrating its Bing search engine into OpenAI's ChatGPT, a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence to converse with users. The move will allow customers to access up-to-date information through the premium ChatGPT Plus service. Microsoft is OpenAI's largest investor and partner, and has been using the startup's technology in its cloud-based services for clients such as Volvo, Ikea, Mercedes-Benz and Shell. The integration of Bing into ChatGPT is part of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's strategy to focus on AI programs called copilots that help users perform tasks in Bing and Office software.

Google has announced plans to run Search and Shopping ads inside its conversational AI experience in Search, via the recently announced Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the US. The company showed how ads could run above and below this new experience at its I/O developer event earlier this month. Google will also experiment with ads that are "directly integrated" within the AI-powered snapshot and conversational mode, which will appear alongside relevant queries. These ads that accompany the AI chatbot's responses will still be clearly labeled as "Sponsored" results using bold, black text.

Google has launched a new tool called Product Studio, which uses generative AI to allow Google Shopping merchants to edit and customize their product images for free. The tool is designed to help sellers diversify product and lifestyle images used on e-commerce listings, something that can be time-consuming or require expensive photography. Product Studio generates different background scenes to suit different ad campaigns or simply replace a plain backdrop. It also allows sellers to instantly remove the existing background of an image if they need a blank backdrop, and increase the quality of small or low-resolution images.

Google search data for Bitcoin has dropped to a level not seen in two years, indicating a decline in interest in the cryptocurrency industry. Despite the rise in Bitcoin prices in 2023, trade volume and liquidity have been affected by the dwindling interest. This trend has been ongoing since before the 2022 bear market, and regulatory issues in the US may worsen the situation. Institutional and retail investors have been leaving the sector, resulting in significant capital flight. The question remains whether crypto can recover its former glory after the scandals that caused its decline in popularity.

Google's Bard AI has suggested that it is possible for Shiba Inu to reach a value of $0.01, but this would require a significant increase in demand and a decrease in supply. The extensive supply of Shiba Inu needs to be reduced for the asset to witness significant price surges. However, there are a few factors that could contribute to an increase in demand for Shiba Inu, such as the cryptocurrency becoming more widely accepted as a form of payment and the integration of Shiba Inu with BitPay, Binance Pay, and Binance Card. Achieving $0.01 would signify an astounding 116,913% surge in value, but SHIB's chances of success rely heavily on a substantial reduction in supply, as well as increased demand and utility.

Google plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users in Q1 2024 as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative, which aims to replace these cookies with a more privacy-conscious approach. The move will help developers assess their readiness for the larger changes coming in late 2024 when Google plans to completely deprecate third-party cookies. With the launch of Chrome 115 release in July, Google is making Privacy Sandbox's relevance and measurement APIs generally available to all Chrome users, allowing developers to test these APIs with live traffic. However, other browser vendors are taking different approaches to preserving their users' privacy, and it remains unclear what implications this will have on the overall web advertising ecosystem.