On the CA fires, and ***REBUILDING***
I'm not a Blue Check but hopefully this post will be amplified by others with more reach.
The screenshots I'm sharing are from a former boss and friend of mine whose home was lost to a fire a few years ago.
He's giving great advice:
Just 9 days ago Google dropped Veo 2 for Early Access.
Veo 2 has incredible prompt adherence and great with motion.
And people can't stop getting creative with it.
10 wild examples:
I built an alternative to @ProductHunt. It's called https://t.co/CDz4s9aVV9
To showcase your website on our home page, pay any amount higher than the last person. No moderators, no collusion.
$1 of every showcase goes to @GirlsWhoCode.
Shipping on Friday 👊
Image Search is now live on Objective! Supported out of the box on all multimodal indexes 🙌
Image search is powerful, unlocking multiple new UX patterns:
- enable users to search by images, finding similar photos
- offer recommendations like "similar products" or "more like this" based on the images
- search with a subset of an image, enabling a Google Lens experience
We can't wait to see what you build with it!
We're so stoked this morning to announce Anton, an AI agent specialized in helping developers create great search experiences. Check it out! https://t.co/DYhmK9Hdvm
@bradthompsontx@InternetH0F This is universally known in the sport bike community of LA. Learned it within my first year. Pretty sure even cruisers know this.
Why not Headlights? Probably because they are harder to notice in the day and impossible to see from behind. Helmet tap get attention.
Auto-Evaluation is now in your Console! You can’t improve what you don’t measure, especially in search. Auto-Evaluation lets you quantitatively — and comprehensively — measure the relevance of your search. All powered by Objective’s AI-native intelligence layer. https://t.co/goS1xisD1U
If you were thinking about doing some Finetuning this weekend, your Saturday just got a bit brighter! The new Finetuning section of Console shipped this week, giving you all the power of the Finetuning API with the click of a button 🔎⚡
If you're part of the Private Beta, check it out now in your account! If you don't have an account yet, jump on the Private Beta waitlist!
https://t.co/BEUYLtErpf
Building a search app that needs user context? You’re in luck, because Ranking Signals ships into Private Beta today! It’s a wicked-powerful way to inject context & conditional logic into a search request at query-time that you can use to affect the weighting of results.
https://t.co/hj4Y5CItAB
Anything from a seasonal promo, to views of popular products, to data about your search user — or pretty much anything else you can imagine.
If you have a Private Beta account, check it out now in your Console!
Objective Finetuning shipped into Private Beta this morning! You can now bring your own training data to tune the behavior of your search results. We have customers that are already seeing a 25% boost in relevance, all with a single API call. If you have a Private Beta account, go ship a finetuned index today, not in “Q4ish”. 🔎⚡
https://t.co/f9mqASpsuP
Introducing Geo-filtering in Private Beta! 🌍🔍 Upgrade your app with the power to filter search results by geographic location. Perfect for local business searches, event locations, and more! 📍#GeoFiltering#LocationAwareApps https://t.co/cUElTZbYa4
For those times when you need to supercharge your text search with a higher resolution of matching and contextual information, we’re stoked to introduce you to Text Highlights, shipping into self-service Private Beta today!
https://t.co/FFjmmDaCAj