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Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.
Read on Google Gemini →Six experts. Six myths about how search engines and AI systems actually work, and…
Read on Oncrawl →Your content may be useful and relevant, but that doesn’t guarantee it will be seen. Use this practical GEO diagnostic checklist to investigate what may be limiting your content's visibility in AI…
Read on Lumar →Remember back in March when we told our Indian community to "sit tight" while we figured out the APAC event calendar? Hopefully, you didn't take that too literally, because sitting tight for six…
Read on Google Search Central →I turned my 15-year archive of Google algorithm updates into an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server at algo.mariehaynes.com. Here is how it was built, the architecture behind it, and how you…
Read on Marie Haynes →We take a first look at new consumer-journey research Near Media ran for Lastmile Retail, work through the EU's DMA self-preferencing decision, an audit of Google's hotel results in Europe versus the…
Read on Near Media →TL;DR If your performance numbers are down, your single-axis maturity model might be telling you to solve for the wrong problem A true framework should factor in two variables: what the market is…
Read on Seer Interactive →Search can help runners get race-day ready with registration alerts, tailored training plans, and more.
Read on Google Blog — Search →You’re looking at a page that should be performing better, and you want answers fast. Maybe it’s a product page that slipped in rankings, a competitor’s post outranking yours, or a client page that…
Read on Backlinko →Track live game feeds, explore detailed stats, and get custom fantasy recommendations directly in Search this season.
Read on Google Blog — Search →Traditional ranking metrics can only tell us so much about GEO performance. In this article, we explore what a GEO analytics stack could look like, with layers covering candidate page selection to…
Ranking & Algorithms Measurement AI Search & Visibility
Read on Lumar →We’re packing our bags for our 4th trip to San Diego, heading back to one of our favourite events of the year: brightonSEO San Diego. This year’s edition takes place on the 15th and 16th September,…
Read on Screaming Frog →Technical SEO has a direct line to revenue, but not every website needs a…
Read on Oncrawl →Leer en español
Read on Google Search Central →Теперь интернет-магазины и сайты услуг могут сами решать, сколько баллов Плюса получат пользователи за опубликованный отзыв: 40,100,150 или 200. Раньше ставка была фиксированная — 40 баллов.Новая…
Read on Yandex Webmaster (RU) →TL;DR Claude’s watermark only flags that Claude was “likely involved,” so it can’t tell a fully AI-drafted piece from a human draft Claude lightly edited It’s an EU compliance requirement (Code of…
Read on Seer Interactive →WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model, is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
Read on Google DeepMind →Participants in a hackathon hosted by popular AI newsletter AlphaSignal used the Brave Search API to build an autonomous agent, and get that agent to reliably act in the real world.
Read on Brave Search →Damian Rollison, Senior Director of Market Insights at SOCi, joins us to walk through SOCi's third annual consumer study whose headline finding is that local discovery no longer runs in a straight…
Read on Near Media →TL;DR AI is more than just a summary or synthesis tool for project managers, and the best PMs will use it to become a better strategic partner PMs can use AI to spot ongoing friction and pinpoint the…
Read on Seer Interactive →Authority can influence whether a source is considered in generative search, but its role varies depending on the query. Explore how authority appears to work in GEO, which signals may contribute to…
Read on Lumar →New tests on macOS show Brave for desktop outperforms Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in page-load speed, CPU, memory, energy, and network use. This post includes the full methodology and results.
Read on Brave Search →Stay Visible is my monthly personal update for the SEO, GEO and SISTRIX community. In this edition I talk about the Deep Dive chat feature, the Google ‘goto’ redirection problem that has been solved,…
Site Architecture AI Search & Visibility
Read on Sistrix →TL;DR Everyone measuring AI search is defaulting to the same KPIs, but there is no one-size-fits-all AI search KPI New research shows 54% of AI search categories lack a clear category owner, and…
Read on Seer Interactive →Lake Ontario FiascoAs trade negotiations with Canada fell apart, Trump issued an order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" A petty rebuke, it follows a similar episode in January 2024, when Trump…
Read on Near Media →We connect three stories that are really one story: Apple's launch of ads in Maps, Google's move to charge for more Local Services Ads leads and expand ads across the results page, and Meta's ~$18…
Read on Near Media →A session in partnership with Page 2 Podcast
Read on SearchPilot →In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content is published on a trusted website just to exploit that site's good reputation to rank higher in Search.…
Read on Google Search Central →TL;DR We realized AI platforms were relaying an inaccurate narrative about Seer Interactive, so we ran a full analysis to find out what else they were saying — and whether the info was accurate Of…
Read on Seer Interactive →Brave Accounts is a brand-new way to sign into Brave services like Email Aliases. Built on the OPAQUE cryptographic protocol, your password is never sent to our servers—not encrypted, not hashed—so…
Read on Brave Search →Starting with desktop version 1.94, Brave is offering Email Aliases to let you sign up for online services without revealing your personal email address. Aliases forward to your primary inbox,…
Read on Brave Search →Google's spam update caused exceptional search disruption, with dramatic ranking losses across 20 industries, according to SE Ranking data.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →In a new survey, we found that 1 in 3 AI users say they’ve told a chatbot something they kept from people in their lives. Once people learn how most AI companies handle their chats, most don't like…
Read on DuckDuckGo →The evolution of NLP methods and what that means for AI search Before AI,…
Read on Oncrawl →Welcome back to our GEO series! Your content can be highly relevant to a query and still never make it into an AI-generated response. In the previous article, we touched on one reason why: a relevant…
Content & Quality AI Search & Visibility
Read on Lumar →Мы обновили интерфейс сервиса Яндекс Вордстат — сделали его удобнее и добавили полезные функции. Рассказываем, что изменилось и как это поможет вам в работе с ключевыми запросами. Что изменилось в…
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