Selecting a search partner in 2026 requires evaluating far more than traditional keyword rank tracking and basic content

Ex-Googler Jeff Dean shares insights from Gemini's development and the approach he uses to discover promising new ideas.

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At BrightonSEO Conference, Ross Hudgens said that, AI search visibility may increasingly depend on affiliate sites, YouTube creators, communities and third-party publishers, according to Ross Hudgens, who says marketers need to pay much closer attention to who the models actually cite.

Google is turning publisher advertising into user experience metric that adds four more numbers that publishers need to track.

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Spot false claims and impersonators in AI search, then match each brand protection problem to the right correction, report, or preventive action.

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A 90-day test found that structured, answer-focused video content improved visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, while exposing a bigger…

Meta published two Muse documents on the same day. One never mentions risk, attack, or prompt injection. The other uses them 39 times.

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Anthropic shares prompting upgrades that save tokens, improve how AI writes, code more efficiently, and handle longer tasks.

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Sean McCrohan and Steve Wiideman explain how citation clicks, calls, prompt libraries, and customer language can connect AI discovery to local leads.

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Google admits that Search Console's AI search reporting does not adequately reflect AI search positioning data for SEO.

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Google redesigned Search results across the EEA, Business Profile posts get view counts again, and ChatGPT Shopping now leans harder on product feeds.

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SEO For Paws is back with Barry Schwartz, Glenn Gabe, and a lineup of search experts talking about search in the AI era.

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A University of Washington paper estimates AI Overviews reduced search referrals to Wikipedia by about 5%, a metric Google disputes.

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Stas Levitan of LightSite AI explains four first-party signals marketers can use to connect AI bot attention with human traffic and better SEO decisions.

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Publishers are blocking AI crawlers on a metric whose denominator is missing an unknown share of referrals.

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Moz leaders Jonathan Berthold and Kevin Chen explain how listings, reviews, mentions, and social activity shape local recommendations in AI search.

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Google DeepMind researchers test Autoregressive Ranking (ARR), a unified model that can replace current retrieval and ranking methods.

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AI visibility tools track brand mentions and citations, but marketers need outcome data to know what those movements mean and what to do next.

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John Mueller says Google's systems may still judge a site by its old low-value programmatic pages, and that showing value again takes time and effort.

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InMotion Cloud launches a fixed-price Managed Private Cloud built on bare metal, with predictable monthly rates, fixed egress, and U.S.-based support.

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