Widespread AI search is only a couple of months old at this point, but it’s already attracted plenty of criticism. From bad medical advice to worse cooking advice (gasoline WILL spice up your spaghetti, after all), the AI summaries that Google...
Quick to capitalize on the New York Times’s revelation that Donald Trump has paid little or no income tax over recent years, the Biden/Harris campaign has launched its own Trump Tax Calculator. Enter the top-line number from your tax bill, and...
Some Friday fun for you: a few days ago, a McAfee security scan app flagged a link I’d recently clicked. Who owned the site that posed a danger? Newt Gingrich: I’ve been on Newt’s list since he ran for President in 2012, and...
“Alexa, is ‘voice search’ the next big thing to consider in digital politics?” Maybe — though I’m a bit skeptical of projections that half of ALL online search queries in the U.S. will be spoken in 2020. Still...
If you caught Donald Trump’s Phoenix rally tonight, have a stiff drink — I think we could all use one. The speech itself was a parade of lies, distortions, omissions and outright madness, though I will point out that the President...
Photo: Martin O’Malley’s 404 page last summer As we saw last year at the start of the presidential campaign season, 404 pages (“page not found” pages) are an opportunity for Presidential campaigns (or any campaign) to show a...
Updated below. Unless you’ve turned off website notifications, here’s what you’ll see, in my case in the upper left corner: A website notification box, oh my. You can actually see it in Firefox as well as in Chrome now, assuming...
We’ll have Super Tuesday follow-up soon, but first, regular Epolitics.com contributor and digital strategist Laura Packard (of PowerThru Consulting) guides us through important digital lessons we can learn from this year’s Reed Award...
Our old friend Laura Packard sends over this gem: JebCanFixIt.com. And guess what, the Jeb! campaign doesn’t own it. Instead, the domain is in the hands of former Austin, TX city council candidate Jimmy Flannigan, who ran in 2014 with the...
According to information from analytics firm DataPulse, Marco Rubio saw a big boost in website traffic during and after last night’s Republican debate: Assuming that some percentage of the new site visitors join his email list or even make a...