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This news item is part of the weekly top 5 news bulletin (from Week 2, Oct 2022) specially packaged for leaders of Nonprofits, Churches, and Faith-based Social Ventures.

Google made multiple announcements at their Search On 2022 event about the direction that they’re taking towards displaying search results and the technology behind Search, Voice and lots of good announcements about artificial intelligence, about immersive experiences, about multidimensional search. These are the words that they used. Which are all important part of the future trends. And it’s important for us as nonprofits, churches and ministries to understand this direction that Google, the leader of search is taking. Because it’s not only impacts Google, it also impacts YouTube. Now, a couple of interesting things. You can check out the full article in the show notes, we will link to it multiple articles, but the key thing to note here is the visual display. So Google is going towards displaying more videos, more images. In fact, they are going to start displaying short videos about search results. For example, if you search about a city, you may start seeing TikTok videos and Instagram videos about that city. Interesting
Here is the full list of the Top 5 News Items from Week 2, October 2022 with source links from Google, Crypto, Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn, Web3.
🗞️ News 1: Google’s Search On 2022 highlights: more visual results & short-videos
Source: Google | Keyword Blog
🗞️ News 2: Twitter launches new video products with full screen & discovery tools
Source: Twitter
🗞️ News 3: Meta announces the date for Virtual 2022 Facebook Communities Summit
Source: Meta
🗞️ News 4: LinkedIn launches new advertising types & tools including Document Ads
Source: LinkedIn
🗞️ News 5: [Web3] 2022 Digital Assets report released by U.S. FSOC Council Chair
Source: U.S. SEC Website
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Author of The Connected Church. Social Media and Digital Marketing Consultant for Nonprofits, Faith-based Organisations, Churches, and Ministries.