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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Happy 27th birthday to Google! 🎂 🎉 To celebrate, today we've gone retro and taken our homepage back to 1998 with the original Google logo:

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Google Labs AI Futures Fund - working with startups to build what's next in AI. Find out more and apply: labs.google/aifuturesfund

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Labs.Google is Google’s home for the latest AI tools, technology and discourse.

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🚀 Announcing the Google AI Futures Fund! 🚀 We're investing in and collaborating with startups building the future of AI. Get early access to GoogleDeepMind's latest models like Gemini, Veo & Imagen, expert collaboration, Google Cloud credits & potential equity.

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Sign up for Google Marketing Live #GML2025, streaming live from Dublin on May 22! Join us virtually to explore how Google AI & the latest ads innovations for Google & YouTube can help businesses to grow faster. Expect insights, demos, & live Q&A with our experts. Register: goo.gle/GML-EMEA-register

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Media Trust @mediatrust.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Our #AIEssentialsBootcamp is designed to help you understand, explore and integrate AI into your work, exploring topics such as: 💻 Maximising productivity with AI tools ⚙️ Discovering the art of prompt engineering 👥 Using AI responsibly Apply now: mediatrust.org/youth-progra...

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Ready to learn AI?
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Join our free AI Essentials Bootcamp For Talent to gain practical skills and boost your career!

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Brilliant programme with @mediatrust.bsky.social supported by Google.org to support AI skills - apply here:

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🚀 AI upskilling can save each of us 122 hours a year at work on average. Find out more: AI’s potential to tackle the UK’s productivity puzzle #AIWorks blog.google/around-the-g...

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

✨ AI could boost the UK economy by a massive £400Bn by 2030 - but half of that growth depends on helping UK workers to make good use of AI, according to Google UK's AI Works research.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

AI Mode in Google Search uses a custom version of Gemini to issue related searches. This "query fan-out" technique finds real-time info from the web, our Knowledge Graph & more. This provides a greater breadth & depth of info than a traditional Google search. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

In March the Sidemen sold out @wembleystadium.bsky.social to 90,000 people with their amazing charity football match 👏 Find out what they've learnt about marketing in the digital age. 👇

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Happy 20th birthday today to YouTube! 📈 46 million UK adults now watch YouTube every month. 1️⃣ If UK viewers could only watch one service for an entire year, the number one platform they chose was YouTube. 🇬🇧 YouTube's creator ecosystem contributes £2bn to UK GDP. What are you watching on YouTube?

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Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦 Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful' PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur... More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

My brilliant bridge partner has written another superb book - find out more:

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Beautiful cover and a brilliant book - ordered!

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Google Santa Tracker 2024 is live! 🎄🎅🛷 Check out Santa’s magical progress around the world as he brings gifts and spreads joy. santatracker.google.com

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Google Santa Tracker

Explore, play and learn with Santa's elves all December long

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Sunday fun - design a chess piece using GenAI. ♟️ Just say what you’d like in your design and Google’s most advanced GenAI image generation model, Imagen 3, will create it. ✨ Check out GenChess: labs.google/genchess

Make a classic chess set inspired by the most cat-like thing ever using Google’s GenChess

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Find the most popular links being shared by the accounts you follow on Bluesky:

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Great app - thanks for sharing

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Parker Ortolani @parkerortolani.com · 25/11/2024

this new site is flippin awesome, sort of a spiritual successor to Nuzzle you can connect your Bluesky and Mastodon accounts and then it compiles popular links and shows you who is sharing them sill.social

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Really helpful - thanks! Is there an overall Sifted account too?

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A great starter pack - thanks Alex

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A great starter pack of marketing, commerce and measurement accounts:

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Bluesky searches still growing fast, Google Trends data shows: trends.google.com/trends/explo...

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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face

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Peregrine falcon fan @nrgsrhc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

They should have called this site AFC Twitter

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Made another highly specific apology card.

A red dog painting with the caption “Sorry I didn’t mention you on my Bluesky starter pack

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Bluesky now the number one free app on the Google Play store chart:

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Significant growth in searches for Bluesky on Google in recent days, too: bsky.app/profile/davi...

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Significant growth in Google searches for Bluesky in recent days, according to Google Trends: trends.google.com/trends/explo...

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Latest: We’ve just launched the Gemini app on iPhone, for any iOS users here on Bluesky. All powered by Google AI: - Gemini Live for free-flowing conversational AI - Generate images with Imagen - Get the most out of Google’s personal AI assistant Here’s the deets: blog.google/products/gem...

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The Gemini app is now available on iPhone

The standalone Gemini app is now available for iPhone users in the iOS App Store.

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David Black @davidblack.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Significant growth in searches for Bluesky in the UK in recent days, according to Google Trends: trends.google.com/trends/explo...

Growth in Bluesky searches, according to Google Trends

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