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Research, experiments and analysis on AI visibility, generative search, SEO and how artificial intelligence systems understand the web.
Indexed but Missing From Google News: Publishers Report a New Visibility Problem
For news publishers, speed is part of visibility. An article that appears hours after a story breaks may still be indexed, technically healthy and perfectly accessible, but it can....
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Gemini 3.8 Flash May Be Faster — but Is Google AI Mode Becoming Less Citation-Friendly?
Google’s AI search experience has always carried a difficult promise: answer the question directly while still giving users meaningful routes back to the open web. A new round of e...
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Claude Is Turning Product Discovery Into an Agent Conversation — Is E-commerce SEO Ready?
For years, e-commerce SEO has been built around a familiar journey: a shopper types a query, scans a page of results, clicks through to a retailer or marketplace, compares products...
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Google’s August Spam Update Hit French Sites Hard — Coincidence or Language-Specific Pattern?
Google’s August Spam Update Hit French Sites Hard — Coincidence or Language-Specific Pattern? Google’s August 2026 spam update was officially described as a global ranking ch...
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Brave Search Moves Onto the AI Radar With Ask Brave
Brave should now be firmly on the search and SEO radar. While Google, Microsoft and Perplexity still dominate most AI search discussions, Brave is pushing a different but increa...
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Baidu, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo: Quiet Search Updates Still Leave Bing at the Center of the Story
For search marketers tracking the daily flow of AI search updates, today appears to be a quiet one across Baidu, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. There is no newly verifiable announcement....
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Naver’s Small Powerlink Test Points to a Bigger AI Search Shift in Korea
Naver has not announced a major staffing or organizational update today, but the Korean search giant did publish a notable advertising-side change on September 1: a limited rede...
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Bing Connects SEO Foundations to Copilot Citations: Indexing, Grounding and AI Visibility Are Now One Pipeline
Microsoft has quietly made one of the clearest statements yet about how classic SEO connects to AI visibility. In its updated Bing Webmaster Guidelines, the company now frames B...
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Yandex Explains How Websites Get Cited in AI Search — and It Starts With Indexing
Yandex has given site owners another reason to stop treating AI search visibility as a mysterious layer floating above ordinary SEO. Its AI Search materials describe products th...
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Google Avoids Another Breakup — but Publishers May Finally Get More Ad-Tech Transparency
Google has avoided another forced breakup, but the company’s victory in the latest U.S. ad-tech antitrust ruling is not a clean escape. According to Reuters, U.S. District Judge L...
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Google’s Disavow Tool Still Has Effects, But That Does Not Make It Routine SEO
Google’s Disavow Tool is not quite the dead instrument that parts of the SEO industry sometimes describe. The more accurate reading is narrower, but more interesting: Google still....
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