Kris Jones, founder of LSEO, said on Search Engine Journal's podcast that AI systems now perform the comparison step for users, making brand synthesis the key factor in whether an AI recommends a busi…
Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report found that 461 million of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google between March and May 2026, a 95% overlap, indicating AI chat is growing alongsi…
Google's new Search Console reporting for generative AI features, introduced in June, provides impression counts for AI Overview and AI Mode panels but lacks click data and query details, creating a t…
Google is relabeling its Smart Bidding options and changing how budget-limited campaigns hit their targets starting June 2026, according to a Search Engine Journal guide. Target CPA and target ROAS wi…
Over the weekend of July 26–27, Reddit users discovered that hundreds of shared Claude conversations and Artifacts, including medical records, clinical trial data, internal company documents, children…
A July 27 study by Ahrefs of 100,000 Google searches found that pages with more detector-flagged AI text ranked lower, were indexed less often and received fewer impressions, with 5.3% of top-three pa…
Organizations must shift from optimizing pages to governing answers as AI becomes the primary intermediary between businesses and customers, according to a Search Engine Journal article. The author ar…
Google.com has become the second most-cited domain in Google's AI Mode, with citation share rising 8.4x between April 15 and June 30, driven primarily by Business Profile cards and Product Knowledge P…
A Bluesky user named @danabra.mov reported that writing highly specific, insightful blog posts led to their content being cited by Claude AI, with the AI condensing and occasionally explicitly referen…
The agentic web is splitting into two bets: identity via llms.txt and capability via WebMCP. Llms.txt, a file that tells AI models what a website covers, is being enabled by default on millions of Wor…
Search Engine Journal published Duane Forrester's July 2026 analysis arguing that AI answer engines reward recycled web content, creating a feedback loop that degrades data quality in training and ret…
A new analysis by Lily Ray reveals that self-promoting listicles in AI search often backfire, with Google's AI Overview citing a brand's own page but recommending a competitor 69% of the time. The res…
Writesonic CEO Samanyou Garg revealed in a Search Engine Journal webinar that AI search now drives 35% of the company's leads, up from 2.5% last year, and shared five lessons from running AI agents ac…
SEO consultant Slobodan Manic found that Chrome's Lighthouse Agentic Browsing audit fails llms.txt files containing plain-text links, requiring Markdown syntax to pass. Converting links to Markdown fo…
Google reported an all-time high in search queries, but referral traffic to publishers is declining sharply, with expectations of a 40% drop in the next three years. AI search engines rely on retrieva…
Google data reveals AI Mode search queries are now triple the length of traditional queries, with follow-up queries growing 40% monthly and multimodal interactions accounting for over one in six searc…
Website owners face a dilemma over whether to block AI crawlers or measure their value first, as the proliferation of AI bots increases server costs and raises questions about ROI. SEO experts recomme…
A randomized field experiment by researchers Saharsh Agarwal and Ananya Sen found that removing Google's AI Overviews increased organic clicks by 39.8%, but the additional clicks were of similar quali…
A Notion report surveying 6,118 AI decision-makers and users across 10 global markets found that 88% of organizations use AI only as an individual tool, while just 12% have integrated it into their sy…
Siteline found that AI agents frequently fail to extract list prices from B2B websites due to client-side JavaScript rendering and pricing pages behind contact forms, forcing agents to rely on stale t…