Sep 24
12
So it seems that anyone who’s anyone has an anti-trust suit or some other major legal challenge taking place, especially if you’re with Apple or Google. Hosts Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger talk about the various anti-trust cases covering two types of Googley advertising monopolies and a spiffy tax dodge scheme the EU’s angry with Apple and Google over. We also talk about the introduction of Gemini AI to Google’s productivity suite including the feature that can turn your notes into a generic podcast.
BTW, “Rutabaga”. That’s this week’s safe word that proves we’re real. Kristine introduces a story that suggests families should come up with safe words to combat AI loan scams in which the scammers run a short clip of a voice through AI to convince people’s parents to send them money. Twixter is leaving San Francisco and the right wing American propaganda network, Tenet Media is shuttered by the DOJ because they’re a front from Russian malfeasance. We also talk about a lot of Googley goodness including Martin Splitt’s declaration that no Exif Data was parsed to generate those search or image results, Google’s spam warnings about misuse of their Indexing API, the move from FID to INP, and how changing your heading hierarchy isn’t the massive fix you might think it is. Remember, rutabaga. Accept no substitutes.
RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/webcology/ep/44397b20-6592-4a7c-a42d-a2a34d2248e0
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-who-ya-gonna-anti-trust-edition/id280183059?i=1000670080429
I <3 Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/220-webcology-25817178/episode/the-who-ya-gonna-anti-trust-edition-218034284/