Business Roundup Week Ending May 24

Google’s AI Overviews are Reshaping Search

Google is deprioritizing organic search in favor of integrated advertising within new AI Overviews content boxes.
The move prioritizes advertising over Google’s original mission of organizing information.
Google unveiled plans to integrate advertising into new AI-powered “Overviews” in search results.
These Overviews will replace traditional organic listings for many queries and will contain pay-per-click ads aimed at driving direct purchases.
An example shown at Google’s recent Marketing Live event showed shopping ads appearing above organic listings for “travel hacks.”
How will this impact SEO as we know it today? Read the full article on SearchEngineJournal.

Remote work is a part of life for many of us. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve seen it done well (and maybe not so well).
This article highlights 3 habits that we can all probably sharpen.
Writing Everything Down: Documenting processes and decisions ensures transparency, clarity, and reduces the need for meetings.
Prioritizing Deep Work: Focusing on uninterrupted work sessions increases productivity and minimizes unnecessary meeting disruptions.
Valuing Trust and Transparency: Establishing trust and facilitating easy in-person collaboration strengthens team cohesion and efficiency.
Read the full article, The Habits of Effective Remote Teams, with more thoughtful details from content marketer James Temperton.

Cool! But wait… it can detect fraud because it is monitoring phone calls.
“…Technical capabilities have already been, or are being developed to monitor calls, creation, writing texts or documents, for example in search of illegal, harmful, hateful, or otherwise undesirable or iniquitous content.”
Taking this further, this model could not only display a warning, but also decide to block the ability to continue the communication.
Is this the answer we’ve been waiting for to solve the problem of fraudulent calls, texts, and emails? Or is this a major threat to privacy and personal freedom? Maybe both?
Check out this article about designing technologies with values.

Gravity Wiz has a new Gravity Forms Snippet Library with hundreds of code snippets to extend Gravity Forms’ functionality. And it’s FREE.
Google’s new AI powered search results can leave a lot to be desired. This informative article shows how to eliminate them (for now). TLDR; add &udm=14 to the end of the URL.
Love your MacBook? What if it was foldable? Interesting things here in this article from The Verge.