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Siri Handles 2.5 Billion Requests a Day—the AI Search Market Is Bigger Than Chatbots
AI & Search Sep 10, 2026

Siri Handles 2.5 Billion Requests a Day—the AI Search Market Is Bigger Than Chatbots

The AI search market is easy to picture as a collection of chatbot windows: a user opens ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity, types a question and receives a synthesized answer. Apple ha...

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Uberall’s 120K-Mention Study Says Complete Location Data Is an AI Visibility Gatekeeper
AI & Search Sep 10, 2026

Uberall’s 120K-Mention Study Says Complete Location Data Is an AI Visibility Gatekeeper

Local SEO has always depended on mundane data: the right address, accurate opening hours, categories, photos, reviews and enough information to distinguish one location from anothe...

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AI Search May Value Accessible Trade Media More Than Prestigious Tier-1 Coverage
AI & Search Sep 9, 2026

AI Search May Value Accessible Trade Media More Than Prestigious Tier-1 Coverage

For decades, public-relations teams have treated media prestige as a hierarchy. A national newspaper or global financial title sits at the top, while a specialist trade publication...

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AI Overviews Cover 57% of Manufacturing Search—but AI Referrals Are Still Just 0.48%
AI & Search Sep 9, 2026

AI Overviews Cover 57% of Manufacturing Search—but AI Referrals Are Still Just 0.48%

Manufacturing search is already saturated with AI-generated answers, but that does not mean factories, industrial suppliers and B2B brands are suddenly receiving meaningful volumes...

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AI Overviews Appear on 14% or 52% of Searches—Both Numbers Can Be Correct
AI & Search Sep 8, 2026

AI Overviews Appear on 14% or 52% of Searches—Both Numbers Can Be Correct

How often does Google show an AI Overview? Depending on the study you read, a defensible answer can be roughly 14% of searches—or more than half.That spread looks like a contradict...

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Four AI Engines Agree on the Best Local Business Just 4% of the Time
AI & Search Sep 8, 2026

Four AI Engines Agree on the Best Local Business Just 4% of the Time

Local search used to offer businesses a relatively understandable objective: become one of the strongest results for an important query in a specific market. Generative AI is makin...

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One GEO Strategy Cannot Win Every AI Engine
AI & Search Sep 7, 2026

One GEO Strategy Cannot Win Every AI Engine

The idea of a single “AI search ranking” is becoming harder to defend. In a new Rankability analysis, no pair of AI platforms shared more than 24.1% of the pages they cited. Even t...

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An Agency Turned “Citability” Into a Standalone Service and KPI
AI & Search Sep 7, 2026

An Agency Turned “Citability” Into a Standalone Service and KPI

A New Zealand digital agency has turned one of AI search’s most slippery concepts into something it can put on a proposal, monitor every month and sell as a recurring service: cita...

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Unlisted YouTube Videos Are Practically Invisible to AI Search
AI & Search Sep 7, 2026

Unlisted YouTube Videos Are Practically Invisible to AI Search

A 107-day AI-search experiment produced one of the starkest visibility splits yet measured for YouTube: 118 videos that remained live and playable by direct link but were set to un...

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Your Content May Be Citable — but Can AI Crawlers Actually Reach and Understand It?
AI & Search Sep 7, 2026

Your Content May Be Citable — but Can AI Crawlers Actually Reach and Understand It?

A page can contain the clearest answer on the web and still have a basic problem in AI search: the system trying to use it may struggle to reach, render or interpret what the publi...

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John Lewis Is Producing a YouTube Show Specifically to Influence AI Search
AI & Search Sep 7, 2026

John Lewis Is Producing a YouTube Show Specifically to Influence AI Search

John Lewis is making an unusually explicit bet on generative search: the British department-store chain is launching a YouTube talk show and building an in-house social media studi...

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