The new app is called watchGPT and as I tipped off already, it gives you access to ChatGPT from your Apple Watch. Now the $10,000 question (or more accurately the $3.99 question, as that is the one-time cost of the app) is why having ChatGPT on your wrist is remotely necessary, so let’s dive into what exactly the app can do.
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Data Seemingly Proves Googlebot Crawling Has Slowed via @sejournal, @martinibuster

There have been an ongoing discussions over the past few weeks across social media that Googlebot has dramatically reduced its crawling. For example, the founder of a web crawl analysis service tweeted a graph showing how Google’s crawl activity has declined since November 11, 2021.
Although the indexing slowdown doesn’t affect all sites, many on Twitter and Reddit agree that something changed at Google with respect to indexing and prove it with screenshots of Googlebot activity.
Evidence of Reduced Crawling
Anecdotal evidence of Google crawling anomalies have been stacking up on social media. The problem with social media is that one can literally make any observation about Google and nearly be guaranteed to receive agreement.
Anecdotal is interesting but not as good as data backed observations, which is what appeared recently on Twitter.
A founder of crawler and log analysis service Seolyzer (@Seolyzer_io) posted a graph of Google crawling behavior that showed a dramatic drop off of crawling activity beginning on November 11th.
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He posted:
“Googlebot is on strike! Googlebot has drastically reduced its crawl activity on many large sites since November 11 at 6PM (GMT).”
🔥 Googlebot is on strike! 😱 Googlebot has drastically reduced its crawl activity on many large sites since November 11 at 6PM (GMT). Are you concerned? It requires a thread! 🔽 pic.twitter.com/ugLmCZbC1O
— Olivier @Seolyzer.io 🚀 (@Seolyzer_io) November 15, 2021
304 Server Response Code and Googlebot Crawling
Some have noted a pattern with Googlebot suddenly no longer crawling pages that serve a 304 server response code.
A 304 response code means 304 (Not Modified).
That response code is generated by a server when a browser (or Googlebot) makes a conditional request for a page.
That means that a browser (or Googlebot) tells the server it has a web page saved in cache so don’t bother serving it unless that page has been updated (modified).
Here is a definition of the 304 (Not Modified) server response code from the HTTP Working Group:
“The 304 (Not Modified) status code indicates that a conditional GET or HEAD request has been received and would have resulted in a 200 (OK) response if it were not for the fact that the condition evaluated to false.
In other words, there is no need for the server to transfer a representation of the target resource because the request indicates that the client, which made the request conditional, already has a valid representation; the server is therefore redirecting the client to make use of that stored representation as if it were the payload of a 200 (OK) response.”
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304 Response Causes Less Googlebot Crawling?
One person tweeted confirmation (in French) that on several sites with AMP that he monitors experienced a drop on pages that responded with a 304 response.
Je confirme ici aussi dans la search console sur plusieurs sites avec amp baisse flagrante des 304 le 12 novembre
— Erwan Le Tallec (@eletallec) November 15, 2021
The person who posted the original tweet responded with a post of a graph showing how Google nearly stopped crawling pages that responded with a 304 server response code:
Theory 2: 304s pic.twitter.com/KQ2k1pgteS
— Olivier @Seolyzer.io 🚀 (@Seolyzer_io) November 15, 2021
Others noticed a similar issue where pages serving a 304 response had drastically lower crawl rates:
lol j’ai vu ça ce WE et avant de faire un thread je cherchais des infos / annonces pouvant expliquer mais l’explication c’est clairement amp et 304
— Raphael Doucet (@RaphSEO) November 15, 2021
Another person noticed reduced crawls on travel pages but a crawl increase on ecommerce pages:
Saw this pattern only on tourism and travel portal in Croatia, ecommerce verticals are fine (even saw huge increase in crawls after evening 11 Nov on several)
— Marko Cvijic (@MarkoCvijic) November 15, 2021
Many others are sharing analytics and search console screenshots:
@JohnMu I think there are more routing problems with Google crawling again. Local Nginx server and S3 headers, same problem. Can you tell us something about it? Maybe Cloudflare related problem? https://t.co/c8eV9C4pxg @Seolyzer_io pic.twitter.com/mG1Iqb30UR
— Carlos Redondo (@carlosredondo) November 15, 2021
More data:
I extracted some data, centered around 21-11-11 19:39 (Parisian time).
Some Google verified crawl IPs went completely dark from that point in time. pic.twitter.com/FcqeMXuJPv— Baptiste M. (@bactisme) November 15, 2021
304 Response Code Should Not Alter Crawling
Google’s official developer help page documentation on Googlebot crawling states that a 304 response code should not impact crawling.
Here’s what Google’s official documentation advises:
“Googlebot signals the indexing pipeline that the content is the same as last time it was crawled.
The indexing pipeline may recalculate signals for the URL, but otherwise the status code has no effect on indexing.”
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Is it possible that Google has changed (permanently or temporarily) and that developer page is outdated?
Cookie Consent Theory
The 304 Server Response theory is one of many theories and solutions to explain why Googlebot might not index a web page.
One person tweeted that Google increased indexing after removing a cookie consent bar.
Google not crawling and indexing new pages anymore? I had the same problem and removed the cookie consent bar (Cookiepro) to test. Guess what – problem solved. @JohnMu – any ideas why Google might not crawl and index new pages with a cookie-consent popup?
— Dennis Sievers (@resiever) November 16, 2021
Why would a cookie response bar cause Google to not index a web page? Could the cookie consent bar have triggered a 304 response, causing Google to not index the page?
Reduced Googlebot Crawls Discussed at Reddit
The phenomenon of reduced Googlebot crawls were also discussed on Reddit.
A Redditor described how in the past articles from their successful site were indexed within 10 minutes of submitting them via Google Search Console.
They related that recently only half of new articles were being indexed.
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But that changed in November according to this Reddit post:
“For whatever reason now less than half of our new articles are indexing, even with me manually submitting them all right after publishing.”
Other redditors shared similar experiences:
“A lot of people are experiencing similar right now… Something seems to be going on with Google.”
“Something is up with Google indexing new posts…”
“My website is 17 years old… suddenly, the latest article took weeks to get indexed.”
Google Says Nothing is Broken
Google’s John Mueller responded to the questions on Reddit:
“I don’t see anything broken in the way Google indexes stuff at the moment. I do see us being critical about what we pick up for indexing though, as any search engine should.”
Is Google Testing New Crawling Patterns?
Bing in October announced an open source indexing protocol called IndexNow whose goal is to reduce how often crawlers crawl web pages in order to reduce how much energy is used at data centers for crawling and at servers for serving web pages. The new protocol benefits publishers because it speeds up the process of notifying search engines when pages are updated or created, resulting in faster indexing of quality web pages.
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In November Google announced that it would test the new IndexNow indexing protocol to see if there are benefits to it.
Saving energy and reducing the carbon footprint is one of our most important issues of today. Could it be that Google is improving on ways to reduce crawling without radically changing to a new protocol?
Has Google Reduced Web Page Crawling?
There are some claims that Google has stopped indexing altogether but that is incorrect. However there is significant discussion on social media backed with data to support that Googlebot indexing patterns have changed.
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We asked ChatGPT what will be Google (GOOG) stock price for 2030

Investors who have invested in Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) stock have reaped significant benefits from the company’s robust financial performance over the last five years. Google’s dominance in the online advertising market has been a key driver of the company’s consistent revenue growth and impressive profit margins.
In addition, Google has expanded its operations into related fields such as cloud computing and artificial intelligence. These areas show great promise as future growth drivers, making them increasingly attractive to investors. Notably, Alphabet’s stock price has been rising due to investor interest in the company’s recent initiatives in the fast-developing field of artificial intelligence (AI), adding generative AI features to Gmail and Google Docs.
However, when it comes to predicting the future pricing of a corporation like Google, there are many factors to consider. With this in mind, Finbold turned to the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT to suggest a likely pricing range for GOOG stock by 2030. Although the tool was unable to give a definitive price range, it did note the following:
“Over the long term, Google has a track record of strong financial performance and has shown an ability to adapt to changing market conditions. As such, it’s reasonable to expect that Google’s stock price may continue to appreciate over time.”
GOOG stock price prediction
While attempting to estimate the price range of future transactions, it is essential to consider a variety of measures in addition to the AI chat tool, which includes deep learning algorithms and stock market experts.
Finbold collected forecasts provided by CoinPriceForecast, a finance prediction tool that utilizes machine self-learning technology, to anticipate Google stock price by the end of 2030 to compare with ChatGPT’s projection.
According to the most recent long-term estimate, which Finbold obtained on March 20, the price of Google will rise beyond $200 in 2030 and touch $247 by the end of the year, which would indicate a 141% gain from today to the end of the year.
Google has been assigned a recommendation of ‘strong buy’ by the majority of analysts working on Wall Street for a more near-term time frame. Significantly, 36 analysts of the 48 have recommended a “strong buy,” while seven people have advocated a “buy.” The remaining five analysts had given a ‘hold’ rating.

The average price projection for Alphabet stock over the last three months has been $125.32; this objective represents a 22.31% upside from its current price. It’s interesting to note that the maximum price forecast for the next year is $160, representing a gain of 56.16% from the stock’s current price of $102.46.
While the outlook for Google stock may be positive, it’s important to keep in mind that some potential challenges and risks could impact its performance, including competition from ChatGPT itself, which could affect Google’s price.
Disclaimer: The content on this site should not be considered investment advice. Investing is speculative. When investing, your capital is at risk.
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This Apple Watch app brings ChatGPT to your wrist — here’s why you want it

ChatGPT feels like it is everywhere at the moment; the AI-powered tool is rapidly starting to feel like internet connected home devices where you are left wondering if your flower pot really needed Bluetooth. However, after hearing about a new Apple Watch app that brings ChatGPT to your favorite wrist computer, I’m actually convinced this one is worth checking out.
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Discord goes all in with AI: chatbots, automods, whiteboards and more

AI is the future, at least over on Discord.
The messaging application originally made for gamers has become Gen Z’s favorite online hangout destination of choice, and now it’s rolling out a number of features powered by artificial intelligence.
In an announcement(Opens in a new tab) on Thursday, Discord shared what’s coming to the platform soon: an AI chatbot, an automated AI moderator, a conversation summarizer, an avatar remixer, and a whiteboard. Some of these features begin rolling out today, March 9. Others will launch in the coming weeks and months.
While AI has jumped into the mainstream thanks to the popularity of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, Discord has had an active AI community for quite a while now. According to the company, third-party AI apps already on the platform already have more than 30 million monthly users. Nearly 3 million servers on Discord have some AI element integrated into the community.
In fact, the biggest community on Discord is Midjourney, a text-to-image AI project which allows users to generate art from right within the server. Discord says Midjourney’s server has more than 13 million members.
So, with AI being such an integral part of Discord already, it seemed like only a matter of time before Discord itself started bringing AI directly into the platform.
AutoMod AI
Credit: Discord
The first feature coming to some Discord servers as soon as today is AutoMod AI. Discord already has an AutoMod feature, which basically automatically moderates rooms for admins based on the rules of the server. Discord has now integrated OpenAI-powered AI into AutoMod, allowing it to search the server and contact moderators when it thinks rules are possibly being broken. According to Discord, AutoMod AI can also consider the context of a conversation so, for example, users don’t get penalized for posts that are misconstrued.
Clyde is a bot that Discord users may already be familiar with, and starting next week, Clyde is getting an AI upgrade. Currently, the Clyde bot provides information, such as server error messages, and also responds to timeout or ban requests from users and mods. However, that’s pretty much all Clyde was able to do. Until now.

Clyde
Credit: Discord
Clyde will now be able to answer all sorts of questions from users, much like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. Users simply have to type “@Clyde” followed by their prompt. Clyde will be able to pull up information and also help find specific emojis or GIFs based on a user’s description.
Another AI feature coming to Discord next week is Conversation Summaries. Again, the name is fairly descriptive of what it does. With users all over the world, many Discord channels are always moving regardless of time of day. Conversation Summaries will allow users to catch up on what they missed on a Discover Server. The AI-powered feature will “bundle” chats into topics so users can easily read up on what they find most interesting.

Conversation Summaries
Credit: Discord
Starting today, developers can start playing with Avatar Remix, an open-source Discord app that integrates AI art into the messaging app. Avatar Remix allows users to take a fellow user’s avatar and change it up “using the power of generative image models.” What does that mean? In the demo that Discord showed Mashable, a user was able to add a party hat or a mustache to a friend’s avatar by simply mentioning their username and describing what changes they’d like to make.

Avatar Remix
Credit: Discord
The company is also launching an “AI incubator,” offering support for developers creating AI-powered apps on Discord.
Finally, Discord revealed a feature that’s coming soon that has long been requested by the Discord community: a whiteboard. But, of course, this won’t be just any collaborative whiteboard feature. It’s going to be AI-powered, allowing users to collaborate in generating AI art and more.
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