John Shehata, CEO of NewzDash, found something in July that a lot of publishers threatening to block Google’s AI don’t realize is already happening underneath them. Google has started folding entire Top Stories carousels directly inside AI Overviews, and the robots.txt directive most publishers reach for first does nothing to stop it. Shehata posted on ..
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Google is rolling out a Search Console setting that lets you pull your content out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover’s AI features without leaving Search. That’s a choice we haven’t had before, and regulators in the UK now require Google to offer it. Whether to use it is a harder question than it ..
Cloudflare and the three major browser makers want to prove there is a human behind your traffic. They announced how on June 22, 2026, as more and more of that traffic comes from agents with no human behind it at all. PACT answers the case where a person is in the loop. The case the ..
Welcome to this week’s Pulse: updates on your search data sources, AI-flagged pages in rankings, and potential impacts of opting out of Google’s AI features. Here’s what you need to know for your work. Google Opens Search Console Social Reporting To Everyone Google made Search Console platform properties available to everyone worldwide, three weeks after ..
Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt discussed what happens when spammers abuse website search functions to create thousands of spammy search pages. They said that Google begins to treat those pages as hacked. Website Search Spam And Quality Issues Virtually every website has a search function, and something that’s not clearly understood is that using ..
WP Engine announced Commerce Connect, a partnership with BigCommerce that enables ecommerce stores to scale to the next level without any downtime or changes to SEO. Most importantly, Commerce Connect is not about replacing platforms but enabling a safe way to modernize and grow to the next level while preserving everything about the brand. What ..
Rand Fishkin, the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro, posted on LinkedIn on July 24, 2026, to say that Similarweb’s newest report would “probably infuriate” two groups at once. The AI zealots who are certain every marketing dollar should already be chasing chatbot visibility. And the AI skeptics who’ve suspected the hype was overblown but never ..
If you approach European search strategy as a single, unified market, you’ll miss how fragmented and how regulated discovery actually is across the region. This article is the European companion to my recent look at APAC search strategy. Google is still dominant almost everywhere, but the mechanics behind that dominance and the forces chipping away ..
I promised this one at the end of the ChatGPT teardown. I’ve since had to go back to ChatGPT again in a follow-up because it moved under me while the post was still fresh. Perplexity was next, so here it is. The question hasn’t changed, only the logo. “How do I show up in Perplexity?” And ..
OpenAI shut down the Sora app in a two-sentence social media post in late March, but the reason it collapsed had nothing to do with video quality. The company wrote that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app,” according to the Associated Press, after months of pressure over deepfakes of Michael Jackson, Martin Luther ..
