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On Friday, May 8, 2026, The New York Times published a guest essay by investigative journalist Julia Angwin with a headline that demands attention: “Meta Is Dying.” She highlights that Meta lost daily active users in Q1 2026, falling from 3.58 billion in Q4 2025 to 3.56 billion. Angwin sees this as the beginning of […]
Schema markup had a rough week. Google ended FAQ rich results. Four days later, Ahrefs published a report, finding that adding JSON-LD didn’t produce a clear citation lift across Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, or ChatGPT. These developments weaken two common pitches for schema markup: increased SERP visibility and potential AI citation gains. This article […]
Google published a new documentation page to help websites optimize for generative AI features in Search, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. The page, “Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search,” expands Google’s prior AI features documentation published in 2025. The earlier page explains how AI features work, how inclusion is controlled, […]
Welcome to this week’s Pulse. The updates affect how you measure AI assistant traffic, what structured data does for visibility, and how a major publisher is planning for life after search. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Analytics Adds Native AI Assistant Channel Google Analytics now assigns traffic from recognized AI chatbots […]
Google Analytics added an “AI Assistant” default channel group for traffic from recognized AI chatbot referrers, with Google naming ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude as examples. GA4 property owners no longer need to build custom channel groups with regex patterns to separate AI assistant visits from referrals. Until now, all AI chatbot traffic landed in the […]
When a brand stops appearing in ChatGPT, or when its share of voice in Perplexity drops by half over a quarter, the typical response from the marketing org is to write more content. Sometimes a lot more. The thinking goes that if AI systems aren’t surfacing the brand, the fix is to feed them more […]
If your organic traffic is down but your pipeline looks fine, you’re not imagining it. AI-generated answers are intercepting the journey earlier, meaning users are getting what they need from a citation or a recommendation before they ever hit your site. The click never happens. But the influence did. That’s the measurement problem most marketing […]
Google quietly updated one of its Google Ads help pages with a clarification that could raise concerns for some advertisers. The updated documentation suggests that search terms shown in reporting for AI-powered Search experiences may not always reflect a user’s exact query. Instead, some reported search terms may represent Google’s interpretation of user intent. The […]
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch says he told company teams to plan their businesses as if search traffic were zero. Lynch made the comments in an interview on TBPN, a tech talk show OpenAI acquired in April. He described three consecutive years in which internal budget forecasts underestimated actual declines in search traffic. Lynch said: […]
I recently spoke with an SEO who, along with his entire team, had just been laid off. The company was rapidly losing organic traffic, leadership was frustrated, and from their perspective, nothing was being done to fix it. The SEO saw it very differently. They had submitted more than 1,400 tickets over the previous 18 […]