Post of the Week
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News
Introducing the next wave of AI at Scale innovations in Bing
I love how open Bing is when talking about their application of AI models. This is a super interesting article on how Bing is bringing rapid advancements in NLP to their users worldwide.
Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything
Not strictly SEO news but something huge to be aware of that will likely affect the industry going forwards. Microsoft will exclusively license GPT-3 meaning it won't be available on Google Cloud and AWS. Interesting 🤔
Tech
How to Handle Out-of-Stock Products on Ecommerce Platforms
Some great tips on handling out-of-stock products from Dan Taylor ahead of a busy retail period 👌
Processes & Frameworks
2020 Local Search Ranking Factors Presentation
The 2020 Local Search Ranking Factor survey results are in, so check out Darren Shaw's presentation summarising the findings!
What Shifts in Product Demand Mean for SEO
Great post by Sabrina Bomberger on how to be responsive to changes in consumer demand. Extremely relevant at the moment!
Tools
OnCrawl’s Data Studio Connector is Live
I haven't trialed this out yet but from reading their post about it, this looks to a be a superb Data Studio connector from OnCrawl. 👏
Okay...we're back to a Monday!
I've been quietly working day and night on launching a new product/service that should hopefully go some way to simplify forecasting for SEO teams. All will be revealed in next week's issue, so hold tight 😬 Like my blog posts, you'll be seeing it before anyone else!
A bit of a Microsoft heavy week as I've been keenly following their investments in AI. Bing might be some way behind Google's market share but they do some seriously cool things and are very open in speaking about them.
Also in this issue, I've chosen a tool for my Post of the Week - which is an unusual choice for me. BUT this one's awesome from Zack Notes. I absolutely love simple products with clean UI and this definitely ticks those boxes. Input a search query and compare site speed across search results. 🔥
Have a great week! 👋
Andrew Charlton