Melissa Shadrick

SEO Editor at Bloomberg News @business. Views My Own

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Five cups of coffee a day is fine for most adults, heart association says, as evidence grows about the beverage’s benefits https://t.co/9oxnsqN8hA

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

Google confirms testing using AI to create title links in the search results https://t.co/oJwRTZ3Jjw via @MordyOberstein

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Google’s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow.

🎨Create with a smarter design agent: Describe a new business concept or app vision and see it take shape on an AI-native canvas.
⚡️ Iterate quickly: Stitch screens together into interactive prototypes and manage your brand with a portable design system.
🎤 Collaborate with voice: Use hands-free voice interactions to update layouts and explore new variations in real-time.

Try it now (Age 18+ only. Currently available in English and in countries where Gemini is supported.) → https://t.co/pmT9iHEpZa

[Melissa Shadrick @mshadrickk]

Major shift for Google Workspace - native AI integration across full workflows, not just at the margins.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

New Gemini updates to make @GoogleWorkspace more personal, helpful and collaborative: choose your sources and create a Doc draft in seconds, build complex Sheets 9X faster, or generate on-brand Slide layouts with a simple prompt. Plus, Drive now generates summarized answers right at the top of your search results so no more digging through folders.

Rolling out today in beta, available first to Ultra + Pro subscribers in English globally for Docs, Sheets and Slides, and in the US for Drive.

[Similarweb @Similarweb]

Claude was the fastest-growing Gen AI tool by website visits in February.

[Figma @figma]

Tired: code or canvas
Wired: code AND canvas

Introducing Claude Code to Figma

[Melissa Shadrick @mshadrickk]

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[Melissa Shadrick @mshadrickk]

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[Bloomberg @business]

Harvard University's decision to push back against President Trump's deal tied to $9 billion in federal funding has sparked lots of questions online.

@srimtaylor answers some of the most searched inquiries https://t.co/nWl3w76eGj

[Melissa Shadrick @mshadrickk]

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[Lily Ray 😏 @lilyraynyc]

Google’s ranking factors for News content

[Glenn Gabe @glenngabe]

WSJ article about Google's site reputation abuse manual actions (after revising its spam policy) -> Google Search Changes Upend Publishers’ Product-Review Sites

"And some freelancers, hoping to avoid getting blacklisted by skittish publications, have asked to remove their bylines from articles on sites that were flagged by Google, according to people familiar with the requests."

"Google said it isn’t targeting sites based on a roster of freelancers, and has no such list."

“Freelancers are a huge part of the product-journalism industry,” said Adam Doud, who averaged $1,500 to $3,000 a month with assignments for Forbes Vetted and CNN Underscored, supplementing a freelance editor job at SlashGear, a tech, automotive and gaming site. “The most infuriating part of the whole thing is there is absolutely no recourse.”" https://t.co/Abn1hlVnXQ

[Bloomberg @business]

Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser https://t.co/8Rq7kZhNYV

[Melissa Shadrick @mshadrickk]

Can’t escape the Fed

[Brodie Clark @brodieseo]

SEO News: Google is now testing a 'Short Videos' menu item on mobile, directing users to a feed of short videos published to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram & more.

'Short Videos' is currently a unit that appears in the main section of Search on mobile for ~10% of all queries globally – with this test being an extension of this feature.

This test follows the recent launch of 'Forums' which replaced 'Perspectives' in the US, the ongoing testing of 'Web Results', along with 'Products' and 'Product Sites' showing by default in the UK.

More details on each of these changes here: https://t.co/p7D0UpnxEI

[Lily Ray 😏 @lilyraynyc]

Reddit and Quora are - once again - flying off the charts with this update.

[Melissa Shadrick @mshadrickk]

caught @business lookin’ festive this fine friday

[Lily Ray 😏 @lilyraynyc]

6 more Yahoo articles in today’s Discover feed. (Not topics I care much about, btw)

I decided to share my thoughts via Google’s new Notes feature, which is definitely super glitchy and only works some of the time, with total randomness.

[Bloomberg @business]

Google can’t catch all the AI images. Can you?

Take @opinion’s quiz ⬇️ https://t.co/sPT3UugQ1k

[Ethan Lazuk 🪬 @EthanLazuk]

Looks like notes left via the Google Search Labs experiment are indexable in normal search results.

Not sure if it's intentional, but it is a cool way to see what notes people are leaving, if you're interested. :)

cc: @rustybrick @glenngabe @Marie_Haynes