Good morning, Search MarketerSearch Marketer, and how much of search is controlled by machines?
That's what I've been thinking as I've been reading today's news. We've covered quite a few stories around how ads and search providers keep moving to more automated solutions — and we've covered your varied reactions to it.
Bing openly says that they let the machines handle quite a bit of search, while Google is less open about how they use machine learning with their algorithms. Meanwhile, on the paid side, automation has taken over what a lot of PPC experts used to control manually.
Meanwhile, Barry spoke with Justin Abrams of BrightEdge about becoming a "human experience marketer" and it almost makes me feel a sense of equilibrium. Sure, the machines may be taking over on the search and paid advertising side, but we non-machine mortals will be here to anchor the search experience in our shared humanity.
Carolyn Lyden,
Director of Search Content