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AI Search.

How AI Overviews, AI Mode, and the answer engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity — are reshaping search, plus generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO).

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Google tests AI summaries stitched under ad descriptions. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 9 min ago

Google tests AI summaries stitched under ad descriptions

Google Adds Attribution Cards to AI Mode Recipe Results. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / yesterday

Google Adds Attribution Cards to AI Mode Recipe Results

ChatGPT swaps "Sponsored" for "Ad" and moves the label right. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 2 days ago

ChatGPT swaps "Sponsored" for "Ad" and moves the label right

Google Adds Top Stories Carousel Inside AI Overviews. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 2 days ago

Google Adds Top Stories Carousel Inside AI Overviews

Google documents its AI search opt-out control for Search Console. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 6 days ago

Google documents its AI search opt-out control for Search Console

Google Tests an AI Overviews Escape Hatch to Web-Only Results. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 6 days ago

Google Tests an AI Overviews Escape Hatch to Web-Only Results

AI Recommendations Drive 2.5x More Brand Visits, Mostly via Search. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 6 days ago

AI Recommendations Drive 2.5x More Brand Visits, Mostly via Search

B2B Brands Rank for 9,700 Keywords but Appear in 3% of AI Overviews. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 6 days ago

B2B Brands Rank for 9,700 Keywords but Appear in 3% of AI Overviews

ChatGPT Ad Dismissals Fall 50%, But OpenAI Is Doing the Measuring. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 6 days ago

ChatGPT Ad Dismissals Fall 50%, But OpenAI Is Doing the Measuring

Amazon's Alexa+ Agentic Ads collapse the SERP-to-checkout funnel. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 24

Amazon's Alexa+ Agentic Ads collapse the SERP-to-checkout funnel

beehiiv Embeds Cloudflare AI Crawler Controls for Newsletter Publishers. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 24

beehiiv Embeds Cloudflare AI Crawler Controls for Newsletter Publishers

Google Search Console AI performance report reaches US, India, and more. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 24

Google Search Console AI performance report reaches US, India, and more

Google LLM Patent Reveals How AI Builds a Brand Identity Without Your Help. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 23

Google LLM Patent Reveals How AI Builds a Brand Identity Without Your Help

Map the AI citation gaps your buyer committee leaves open. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 23

Map the AI citation gaps your buyer committee leaves open

Google Kills the Chunking Myth and Ties AI Overviews to Site-Wide Quality. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 22

Google Kills the Chunking Myth and Ties AI Overviews to Site-Wide Quality

60% of US Adults Now Read AI Summaries in Search Results. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 19

60% of US Adults Now Read AI Summaries in Search Results

Google cites your "best" listicle, then recommends your rivals instead. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 19

Google cites your "best" listicle, then recommends your rivals instead

AI search use rose 70% while consumer trust fell 28 points in a year. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 18

AI search use rose 70% while consumer trust fell 28 points in a year

AI travel traffic surged 194%, but a third of top pages are unreadable to AI. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 18

AI travel traffic surged 194%, but a third of top pages are unreadable to AI

ChatGPT flips 80% of product picks when search turns on, study finds. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 18

ChatGPT flips 80% of product picks when search turns on, study finds

Google: Markdown Pages for AI Search Strip the Signals That Help You Rank. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 17

Google: Markdown Pages for AI Search Strip the Signals That Help You Rank

Munich Court Rules Google Owns AI Overview Claims, Not Just Links. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 16

Munich Court Rules Google Owns AI Overview Claims, Not Just Links

Your brand is recognized by AI but still not recommended. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 12

Your brand is recognized by AI but still not recommended

Apple confirms Applebot data now feeds Siri AI answers. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 11

Apple confirms Applebot data now feeds Siri AI answers

Google Tests Moving Source Attribution Below AI Mode Answer Cards. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 10

Google Tests Moving Source Attribution Below AI Mode Answer Cards

Microsoft Web IQ Routes AI Agents Through Bing at the Passage Level. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 10

Microsoft Web IQ Routes AI Agents Through Bing at the Passage Level

Bing adds an off switch for Copilot AI answers in search results. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 9

Bing adds an off switch for Copilot AI answers in search results

Google denies plans to make AI Mode Chrome's default search. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 9

Google denies plans to make AI Mode Chrome's default search

OpenAI Tests Multiple Ads Per ChatGPT Prompt. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 8

OpenAI Tests Multiple Ads Per ChatGPT Prompt

Bing Webmaster Tools AI reporting is getting more features soon. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 5

Bing Webmaster Tools AI reporting is getting more features soon

Microsoft launches Web IQ, a Bing search layer for AI agents. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 4

Microsoft launches Web IQ, a Bing search layer for AI agents

Microsoft Concedes AI Search Cuts Clicks to Websites. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 3

Microsoft Concedes AI Search Cuts Clicks to Websites

Google adds AI Mode opt-out toggle and impression data to Search Console. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 3

Google adds AI Mode opt-out toggle and impression data to Search Console

Google opens AI Mode ads to healthcare in a limited US test. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 2

Google opens AI Mode ads to healthcare in a limited US test

Google's Preferred Sources Badge Now Shows Up Inside AI Answers. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 1

Google's Preferred Sources Badge Now Shows Up Inside AI Answers

DuckDuckGo Installs Jumped 18% WoW After Google I/O AI Push. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 29

DuckDuckGo Installs Jumped 18% WoW After Google I/O AI Push

Google Lets Users Pull Publishers Into AI Overviews. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 29

Google Lets Users Pull Publishers Into AI Overviews

ChatGPT Referral Traffic Up 150% After OpenAI Added Homepage Links. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 28

ChatGPT Referral Traffic Up 150% After OpenAI Added Homepage Links

Google Merchant Center Adds Conversational Attributes for AI-Driven Commerce. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 27

Google Merchant Center Adds Conversational Attributes for AI-Driven Commerce

Bing Now Groups Image Results by AI-Generated Categories. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 26

Bing Now Groups Image Results by AI-Generated Categories

AI can't cite what it can't parse: the case for information architecture. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 25

AI can't cite what it can't parse: the case for information architecture

Google AI Overviews mistake queries for commands in prompt bug. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 25

Google AI Overviews mistake queries for commands in prompt bug

Map fragment of a multilingual region with diverging query and retrieval paths
Ai-search / May 21

Catalan Search Exposes a Hidden Flaw in AI Retrieval

Diagram separating training data, licensed access, and retrieval as three distinct layers
Ai-search / May 21

Reddit's Pull in AI Answers Is Retrieval, Not Just Training

Editorial graphic for an article on Google AI Mode adopting Gemini 3.5 Flash
Ai-search / May 19

AI Mode adopts Gemini 3.5 Flash as default, crosses 1B users

Editorial graphic for an article on Google's redesigned AI-powered Search box
Ai-search / May 19

Google rebuilds the Search box and puts AI agents inside it

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