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US Threatened to Close on October 1, Workers Not Paid

US Threatened to Close on October 1, Workers Not Paid US Threatened to Close. (Photo: Okezone.com) SPIRITUAL CHAT - The United States (US) is threatened with closing on October 1. The US Congress is also trying to thwart providing funds for the fiscal year which starts on Sunday.  The impact of the US shutdown will be felt around the world. There will be many workers temporarily furloughed from their positions on foreign policy and national security or ordered to work without pay.  A government shutdown could also damage the reputation of the United States (US) at a time when the Biden administration is trying to persuade many countries to side with the US over rival China and unite behind Ukraine as it battles Russia.  US embassies and consulates will remain open and passport and visa processing will continue as long as there are sufficient funds to cover operations. Business travel, speeches and other non-essential events will be limited.  Some foreign aid programs may al

Top 10 Blogger SEO Tips: How to Increase Visitors & Google Index

Top 10 Blogger SEO Tips: How to Increase Visitors & Google Index HOW do you get a lot of visitors or readers to your blog? The answer is, the blog must be indexed by Google or other search engines and appear on the front page of search results.  How can you easily get indexed by Google and be found by internet users? The answer is, do search engine optimization or Search Engine Optimization (SEO).  The following Top 10 Blogger SEO Tips are highly recommended for blogspot bloggers, if they want to "play" SEO, so that posts, writings or blog content are easily indexed by search engines (especially Google) and occupy the first page of Google search results (SERP).  These Blogger SEO Tips are especially for beginner bloggers because experienced bloggers already know and apply these Blogspot Blog SEO Tips.  I collected and selected these Blogspot Blog SEO Tips from dozens of Blogspot Blog SEO Tips that I found in various sources. I summarized it into 10 tips so tha

Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data

Google adds a switch for publishers to opt out of becoming AI training data   Now the Google-Extended flag in robots.txt can tell Google’s crawlers to include a site in search without using it to train new AI models like the ones powering Bard. Illustration: The Verge Google just announced  it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models while remaining accessible through Google Search. The new tool, called  Google-Extended , allows sites to continue to get scraped and indexed by crawlers like the  Googlebot  while avoiding having their data used to train AI models as they develop over time. The company says Google-Extended will let publishers “manage whether their sites help improve  Bard  and  Vertex AI  generative APIs,” adding that web publishers can use the toggle to “control access to content on a site.” Google confirmed in July that it’s training its  AI chatbot, Bard, on publicly available data