How does booking.com “Genius” discount work? Why am I able to find links to cheaper rooms through links into booking.com via Google Maps? I booked a hotel room through booking.com app and they offer a “genius” discount of 10%. The room was ~£97 on the app after the applied discount when I booked it. After that, when I looked for the hotel on Google Maps, I found a link for booking.com which opened on my app to book a room in the same hotel for ~£54 (with price matched links to Hot…

X reportedly tests removing headlines from links to news articles The VergeA report from Fortune claims that X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has tested stripping headlines from articles shared on the site. Posts would only include the lead image and the URL, unless the person or publisher posting the link adds their own text, per materials the outlet viewed. The image would still serve as a…

Is A.I. creating “recycled” music on Spotify? (see links) I made a huge electronic music playlist. There are a dozen(plus+) songs that sample the same warm synth, vocal effects, underlying beat, etc. I tried Googling these “artists” and there’s no actual information, fans, pages except for music streaming services. Not only do all these songs sound the same, they’re constructed from the same loops. “Me…

What makes instragram url pop up higher than other links? What can I do to make my Instagram be the first (or one of the first) links that come up when I search my name on Google? I am struggling with fake news and articles about my career and wanted to make sure that when people search my name, they are not faced with such articles upfront but have to scroll down or even get to the next page of Google…

Something odd is happening when you try and search Twitter for Threads links Twitter users trying to find links to Meta’s microblogging rival Threads are finding that the Elon Musk-owned social media network appears to be limiting results. That’s despite Twitter currently being filled with links to Threads content, which you’d expect to be able to find via search. We spotted the behavior via a Threads post from Andy Baio…