Search Engine Journal will host a webinar on July 1, 2025, featuring Writesonic CEO Sam Garg, who will share lessons from building AI agents to track citations across six AI engines including ChatGPT,…
Google launched Ask Ad Manager, a Gemini-powered AI assistant for publishers using Google Ad Manager, to help troubleshoot delivery issues, generate reports, and navigate the platform via conversation…
ChatGPT and Gemini secretly perform traditional web searches in the background to generate answers, and a new free tool called QueryFan reveals exactly which searches each model triggers. Analysis sho…
SEO professionals often fail to impress executives by reporting metrics like rankings and traffic instead of revenue and customer acquisition cost. To secure budget and justify investment, SEO reporti…
Brands recommended by ChatGPT are 2.5 times more likely to receive a site visit within a week, according to a Similarweb report. The analysis found that 55.9% of traffic from AI-influenced visits came…
A new report from Clarecast identifies four signals indicating that marketing teams may be next for AI-driven workforce cuts, based on analysis of 1,300 U.S. companies. The signals include complex tec…
Two top Google AI researchers, Noam Shazeer and John Jumper, left for OpenAI and Anthropic respectively within days, triggering a 5-6% drop in Alphabet shares amid concerns about talent retention and …
Cloudflare announced PACT, a privacy-preserving protocol to standardize AI bot management, backed by Google, Shopify, and major browser makers. The initiative aims to enable legitimate AI agents while…
A new Pew Research Center survey finds 49% of U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024, with ChatGPT leading at 44% adoption. However, skepticism remains high: 40% predict AI will negative…
Google's VP of Search and Commerce, Brendon Kraham, stated that third-party SEO tools lack access to Google's internal metrics, advising marketers to rely on Google's own reporting for AI Search optim…
A German regional court ruled that Google's AI Overviews constitute the company's own speech, making it liable for false statements generated by the technology. The temporary injunction bars Google fr…
Google's Preferred Sources, Search Profiles, and Subscription Linking features allow users to prioritize content from selected publishers, creating a user-directed filter bubble that hinders discovery…
Agencies and marketing teams can now build a live data stack using Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI directly to Google Ads and other platforms, eliminating manual CSV exports and stale data …
Six major infrastructure companies—Cloudflare, Shopify, Stripe, Supabase, Netlify, and Google—independently invested in making their platforms agent-ready over the past six months, signaling a new dis…
The SEO industry must shift from rank-tracking-style AI prompt measurement to volatility and average response tracking, as traditional methods fail due to AI model updates and personalization. ChatGPT…
Microsoft rolled out AI Citation Share and other features in Bing Webmaster Tools, while new data from Google and Ahrefs cast doubt on the effectiveness of llms.txt for AI search visibility. Google, M…
Google researchers published a paper detailing a new system, the Scalable Cluster Termination System (S-CTS), designed to detect coordinated generative AI spam by analyzing organizational attack struc…
Google's AI Mode, with one billion monthly active users, sends visitors who have already researched and decided, yet most websites remain built for undecided browsers. Adobe data shows AI-referred tra…
OpenAI upgraded free ChatGPT users to GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming it now performs comparably to its frontier Thinking models on health questions, based on internal evaluations. The company reported a 71…
Eleven companies including Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Hugging Face published the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) open specification on June 17, enabling AI agents to dynamically discover and veri…