Yet another new report shows that Google’s AI-generated answers is significantly cutting into traffic to publishers. The analysis from Digitial…
Google’s Preferred Sources feature Available
Google’s Preferred Sources feature rolls out to users in the U.S. and India after being tested in Labs—lets individual users…
Bing Says Sitemaps Are Now Critical in the AI Search Era
For years, sitemaps were a bit of an afterthought for SEOs. Nice to have. Helpful for crawling. But rarely urgent.…
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…
GPT5 Hits the Streets
It’s here! The year long wait is finally over. OpenAI’s big GPT-5 steps up everyday usage with sharper reasoning, more…
Do We Get ChatGPT5 Today? OpenAI Live Stream Today 1p Eastern
August 7, 2025, an OpenAI a livestream drops. They have teased it with “LIVE5TREAM,” dropping a subtle hint that GPT-5 might…
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…
Perplexity Says an Agent isn’t a Bot and Not Required to Honor Robots.txt
After Cloudflare posted yesterday about Perplexity using crawlers with stock agent names and not checking robots.txt, Perplexity has responded publicly.…
CloudFlare Says Perplexity is Crawling with Stock Agent – Its Monday
Cloudflare’s recent post calls out Perplexity for operating undeclared web crawlers, quietly sidestepping robots.txt while using a stock chrome agentname.…
Bing Makes Headway and Takes a Little Share – MS’s Surprising Quarterly Report
Microsoft’s Bing is growing – and not just in user numbers, but in revenue, relevance, and reach. Bing’s bet on…
Google Expands AI Mode in Search: What Site Owners and SEOs Should Know
Google just rolled out a batch of updates to experimental AI Mode in Search designed with education in mind. While…
Google’s Tribute to Ozzy Shows How Far SERPs Have Evolved
Go Google Ozzy Osbourne. Google just gave Ozzy Osbourne the kind of tribute most brands would kill for: a custom…
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…
Pew Data Confirms : 50% Reduction in SERP Click Through Rates
In a new study published July 22, Pew Research Center confirmed what we have seen in analytics since Google’s AIO/SOT…
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…
Top Stories, Your Way: What “Preferred Sources” Means for Publishers
Preferred sources is a feature that lets users select websites they trust for news. On the surface, this looks fairly…
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…
Meta’s Cracks Down on Unoriginal Content
The TikTok era has made the reposting of someone elses original content to drive engagement and views has been a…