Google Search Labs releases an experimental update to AI Mode, introducing so-called agentic capabilities that transform search into proactive task…
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Google Launches Unified Studio: Seamless AI Creation in One Playground
In recent months Google AI Studio has received a string of updates that raise its relevance beyond developers - making it a…
Influential Nielsen Norman Group Tees Off on Google AI UX
It's been awhile since we've heard from the famous Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) in the search space. NN/g is a…
UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Designate Google as having Strategic Market Status
UK targets Google Search Power Today the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) formally designated Google with Strategic Market Status…
Is GEO Real or The Great SEO Hallucination? The SEO Community Speaks!
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has moved from theory to playing and testing ground. We were curious to see where this…
Zero-Click Timeline - Googles Insufferable March to The Days of Zero Click Malaise
UPDATE: 9-18-2025: GOOGLE ADDS GEMINI BUTTON TO CHROME. Many in search have been saying that Google is prepping their "Final…
How to Track Traffic from AI Overviews and Featured Snippets in GA4
The search landscape has fundamentally changed through Google’s AI Overviews, Featured Snippets, and "People also ask" results. As we know…
Bots vs. Your Website: Which Ones to Allow and Which to Block?
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, forcing website owners to face a big question: which AI crawlers should you exclude from…
Google Adds Gemini Button To Chrome
Google just rolled Gemini AI into Chrome for US desktop users. This isn’t just another browser update. It’s a shift…
Penske Media Files Suit Against Google Over AI overviews
Penske Media (owners of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, etc.) filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court in Washington, D.C.…
The Big Eight: A New Era of LLM Giants
The Big Eight, a diverse and powerful group of large language models (LLMs), now stand as the new pillars of…
OpEd : Brace Yourself - It's about to Get Real - Googles Final Solution?
The next act out of Google isn’t going to be business as usual. It is time someone cautiously suggested to…
AI Mode To Replace Google Search? Not So Fast Says Googler
Logan Kilpatrick "Lead product for @GoogleAIStudio + the Gemini API" - Googler says that he wasn't saying AI mode is…
Introducing the RSL Standard: A New Licensing Layer for an AI-First Web
For years, SEOs and site owners have had to set by and watch their content get scraped, trained on, and…
ahrefs Study Found AI and Hallucinated 404 Links Go Hand in Hand
Ahrefs just ran a study on how often AI assistants hallucinate links. The team tested thousands of prompts and found…
Google.com/AI Mode Now Opens Search AI Mode
Friday is referred to politics as "taking out the trash" day or the "Friday News Dump" where any bad stories…
Google Gives you 3 free Veo 3 Attempts This Weekend
Want to try Veo 3 and don't have a subscription to Google Gemini plus? Now is your chance to use…
No - OpenAI is Not Using Google for General Search Index
Lots of speculation (wishful thinking), alleging that OpenAI and ChatGPT is using Google for their search index. We've been fighting…
Google’s “Web Guide Labs” Isn’t for SEOs - And That’s the Point
Google launched a new initiative this week called Web Guide Labs, and it’s not what many expected. While it lives…
Google Adds AI Summaries to Discover - What It Means for SEO
Google is now testing AI-generated summaries in the Discover feed. This is a feature that could further erode organic site…
Adobe Survey Says It's ON : Google vs ChatGPT
While watching the arrival of "AI" on to the tech scene, it sure seemed like many in the tech press…
Cell Phones Out -> AI In: What Google's Latest Move Means for Your Child's Future
Just as many schools are banning cell phones, Google releases Gemini for it's school program. Google has announced that its…
Googles Imagen 4 Now in Gemini API and AI Studio
Google has officially integrated Imagen 4 text-to-image model into the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Why It Matters: Fast…
AHREFS Study - Stunning New Report on AIO and AI Search Engines
..a must read comprehensive study analyzing 55.8m AIOs across 590m searches. The stunning report includes some sobering statistics for SEO’s. Top 50 domains get 30% of all AIO shoutouts...
Fresh Doc Dump: PageRank, Navboost, and RankEmbed: DOJ Papers Outline Google’s Stack
Google’s own court-filed slide deck just spilled more tea on Navboost, and the details punch a few holes in years of SEO guesswork. The newly released trove goes further, mapping more than 100 raw signals into a ranking stew that still leans on old-school PageRank while layering in LLM toys like RankEmbed, re-ranking Twiddlers, and the rumored mysterious quality metric called Q*Star.
AdSense Enters Chatbots: Google’s Quiet Move to Monetize AI Conversations
Google is quietly laying the groundwork to monetize conversational AI, starting with chatbot-based AdSense ads. After testing ad integrations with select AI startups like iAsk and Liner in 2024, Google is now inviting more chatbot developers to embed AdSense-style ads directly into their conversational experiences.
Half the Web Opted Out of Google AI Training! Google Trained Anyway.
A court filing just confirmed what many web publishers feared: Google's opt-out tool for AI training doesn't apply to Search AI. Despite 50% of content being excluded from Gemini training, Google still used that same data to train its search-based models—unless publishers blocked indexing entirely.
Google Doesn't have to care
In freshly disclosed testimony during Google's antitrust trial, a Google DeepMind exec confessed that Google continues training some of its…
Google's Search AI Mode Launches to General Public
The great line from the Eagles Hotel California resonates today: "You can checkout in anytime you like, but you can…
I Went Six Months Without Google Search : A #Nofilter Analysis of Open AI's SearchGPT for ChatGPT
When SearchGPT launched on ChatGPT, I dove into the deep end from the starting bell. It has been my default search for six months.