Freshpet Inc. is consistently cited by name in AI Overviews, and on August 20, its digital team and Intero Digital will host a webinar revealing the trust signals that earned those citations. The sess…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis will become Chief Scientist of Alphabet and Chair of Google DeepMind, while Chief Scientist Jeff Dean is leaving Goo…
AI referrals are recreating the oldest mistake in conversion optimization by sending users to homepages instead of the deep pages cited, according to Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report, …
A new analysis from the Reuters Institute and other sources indicates that up to 86% of Google clicks are discovery-led, signaling a fundamental shift in publisher discoverability away from search dom…
Search Engine Journal contributor Mark Traphagen argues that organizations must adopt a new planning metric called 'Click Worthiness' to justify SEO investment as AI reduces website traffic. Click Wor…
Microsoft Advertising's August 2026 product newsletter introduces Topic Insights for AI Visibility reporting in Microsoft Clarity, expanding AI citation analysis by grouping citations by subject, and …
Traditional SEO metrics are breaking down with the rise of AI answers, prompting marketers to rethink measurement. According to the article, most AI visibility tools like Profound, Peec, and AirOps re…
Reddit Inc. reported in its Q2 earnings call that it will surface more evergreen content and integrate advertising modules into its search results, aiming to compete with online content publishers and…
Nearly one in six U.S. trending news queries now place Top Stories carousels inside Google AI Overviews, according to NewzDash CEO John Shehata, with 15.5% of U.S. and 17.46% of UK queries showing the…
A Redditor in the r/SEO community reports that enabling Cloudflare's AI Training block causes Googlebot and Bingbot to receive HTTP 403 errors when fetching sitemaps, despite Cloudflare's official ann…
On June 3, 2026, Google announced dedicated Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, providing website owners with impressions data from AI Overviews and AI Mode, initially rolling out to …
Tinuiti's Q2 2026 benchmark report shows that paid search growth slowed across Google, YouTube, and Instagram, with Google paid search clicks increasing 14% year-over-year in Q1 2026 but spending grow…
Snap Inc. announced on July 31 that wholly AI-generated videos will no longer be eligible for recommendation on its Spotlight feature, a change aimed at rewarding authentic human-created content amid …
Google released Open Knowledge Format v0.2 on July 25, adding a trust layer with fields for content provenance, producer, verifier, and staleness, but no AI agent currently reads OKF bundles. Technica…
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…
The Datos x SparkToro State of Search Report for Q2 2026 reveals that zero-click searches have reached an all-time high, with only 40% of U.S. searches and 40.7% of EU/UK searches sending clicks to th…
Google rolled back its AI image generation feature in Google Earth on July 31 after users generated images of disasters and bombs exploding in various cities. The company stated it is implementing str…
AI assistants now rely on local business listings, reviews, and reputation signals to generate answers, making consistent and accurate data critical for visibility. Uberall's QSR benchmark and AthenaH…
The European Commission's Article 50 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, mandating AI-generated content labels, has come into force, but includes four exemptions that may relieve some publishers. T…
Google is rolling out a Search Console setting that lets website owners opt out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover's AI features without leaving Search, a choice that became available after the UK…