Happy 27th birthday to Google! 🎂 🎉
To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:
Blog post: Helping startups build what’s next with the AI Futures Fund
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Google Labs AI Futures Fund - working with startups to build what's next in AI. Find out more and apply:
labs.google/aifuturesfund
🚀 Announcing the Google AI Futures Fund! 🚀
We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.
Sign up for Google Marketing Live #GML2025, streaming live from Dublin on May 22! Join us virtually to explore how Google AI & the latest ads innovations for Google & YouTube can help businesses to grow faster. Expect insights, demos, & live Q&A with our experts. Register: goo.gle/GML-EMEA-register
Our #AIEssentialsBootcamp is designed to help you understand, explore and integrate AI into your work, exploring topics such as:
💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools
⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering
👥 Using AI responsibly
Apply now:
mediatrust.org/youth-progra...
Brilliant programme with @mediatrust.bsky.social supported by Google.org to support AI skills - apply here:
🚀 AI upskilling can save each of us 122 hours a year at work on average.
Find out more: AI’s potential to tackle the UK’s productivity puzzle #AIWorks
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✨ AI could boost the UK economy by a massive £400Bn by 2030 - but half of that growth depends on helping UK workers to make good use of AI, according to Google UK's AI Works research.
AI Mode in Google Search uses a custom version of Gemini to issue related searches. This "query fan-out" technique finds real-time info from the web, our Knowledge Graph & more. This provides a greater breadth & depth of info than a traditional Google search. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...
Deeper than social: Marketing lessons on YouTube from the Sidemen:
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In March the Sidemen sold out @wembleystadium.bsky.social to 90,000 people with their amazing charity football match 👏 Find out what they've learnt about marketing in the digital age. 👇
Happy 20th birthday today to YouTube!
📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month.
1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube.
🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP.
What are you watching on YouTube?
✨ This is cool. Gemini Live with camera and screensharing is now live.
Find out more: blog.google/products/gem...
The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦
Abir Mukherjee
@radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful'
PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur...
More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
My brilliant bridge partner has written another superb book - find out more:
Amazing! Very exciting
Beautiful cover and a brilliant book - ordered!
Google Santa Tracker 2024 is live! 🎄🎅🛷
Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy.
santatracker.google.com
Sunday fun - design a chess piece using GenAI. ♟️
Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨
Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess
Find the most popular links being shared by the accounts you follow on Bluesky:
Great app - thanks for sharing
this new site is flippin awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Nuzzle
you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them
https://sill.social
Really helpful - thanks! Is there an overall Sifted account too?
A great starter pack - thanks Alex
A great starter pack of marketing, commerce and measurement accounts:
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉
We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
Bluesky searches still growing fast, Google Trends data shows:
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"this is fine"
British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r
