Nick Fox, Google’s senior vice president of Knowledge & Information, said that Google Search reached its highest usage ever on July 7, coinciding with Argentina’s comeback victory over Egypt at the World Cup. In the post, Fox wrote: “Google Search broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history right after Argentina ..
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Tom Critchlow, a longtime search marketer with deep experience, recently shared his opinions of where the SEO industry is today, saying that AI Search is changing business priorities in a way that exposes the weaknesses inherent in SEO today. This transformation means that search marketing professionals need to evaluate the services they offer in order ..
For more than two decades, digital strategy has revolved around a deceptively simple objective: Drive people to webpages. Search engines rewarded documents. Analytics rewarded pageviews. Marketing rewarded engagement. As organizations matured, they invested heavily in designing increasingly sophisticated digital experiences that guided customers through carefully orchestrated buying journeys. Information was intentionally distributed across dozens, sometimes ..
I had a conversation with an old friend from my WebmasterWorld Forum days about PR marketing for AI search. The friend had contacted me to hear my thoughts about it. The discussion seemed useful, so I rewrote it into an article. Digital PR Outreach Because Links Matter Less The friend I had this conversation with ..
Web strategy in the AI era has a strange shape. You spend your days optimizing for systems nobody will let you look inside. You publish, you watch the traffic move, and when an AI answer surfaces a competitor instead of you, there is no panel that explains why. So when a regulator forces one of ..
This post was sponsored by FirstPromoter. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. For years, software companies have published pages that rank the best tools in a category and place their own product at the top. The tactic was cheap and easy to scale, and for a long time it helped shape ..
Zahir Hasan didn’t have to tell me his company’s numbers were wrong. I’d sent Hasan, COO of the Oslo-based research firm Clovion AI, a list of methodology questions about “Surviving the AI Funnel,” Clovion’s new study of how Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini recommend brands across a conversation. Question ten was routine, the kind of thing ..
Google’s John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky that lamented all the effort being wasted on AI agent accessibility instead of focusing on the more productive activity of making sites accessible for humans. Tactical SEO One of the consistent aspects of the history of SEO is that practitioners tend to follow tactical trends if ..
The last few weeks have been noisy. Google shipped something called the Open Knowledge Format. Then Google Developers announced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification. Meanwhile, every SEO LinkedIn feed is lit up with someone either declaring markdown the future of the web or explaining why you should ignore all of it. The truth, as ..
Google Search is becoming an agent manager. Sundar Pichai said it plainly across two interviews this spring: “A lot of what are information-seeking queries will be agentic in Search. You’ll be completing tasks. You’ll have many threads running.” One week later, at Google Marketing Live 2026, Nick Fox, the SVP who oversees Search, Ads, and ..
