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BrightEdge published new data showing the different kinds of sites five AI search surfaces tend to show in generated answers. The data makes it possible to see how those differences shape which types of sites each AI engine shows, with strong implications for how to promote to each one. The research focused on five AI […]
OpenAI’s automated crawl activity is estimated to have roughly tripled after the launch of GPT-5, according to a new analysis from Botify and guest author Chris Long. In Botify’s dataset, OpenAI’s search crawler is now generating more log events than its training crawler. That’s a reversal from the period before GPT-5. Long, co-founder of the […]
The standard technical SEO audit checks crawlability, indexability, website speed, mobile-friendliness, and structured data. That checklist was designed for one consumer: Googlebot. This is how it’s always been. In 2026, your website has, at least, a dozen additional non-human consumers. AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot train models and power AI search results. User-triggered […]
A randomized field experiment finds Google’s AI Overviews reduce organic clicks to external websites by 38% on queries where they appear, while self-reported search satisfaction stays nearly unchanged when the summaries are removed. The working paper by researchers at the Indian School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University was posted to SSRN this month. Authors […]
Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools: citation share, grounding query-intent labels, grounding query topic labels, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)-focused recommendations. Krishna Madhavan, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft AI and Bing, previewed the features during a presentation at SEO Week in New York City. Slides shared by attendees on X […]
YouTube is testing “Ask YouTube,” a conversational search experience that returns AI-generated text summaries alongside cited videos and supports follow-up questions in a persistent thread. YouTube describes the feature on its Premium Early Access page as “a new way to search on YouTube that feels more like a conversation.” Users can ask complex questions, receive […]
This post was sponsored by DebugBear. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Which performance metrics actually affect my Google visibility? How do I find out which pages to fix first? How well is my site actually performing? In this article, you’ll learn how to create an industry ranking dashboard to compare your […]
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! I normally write about strategy and search behavior, not labor markets. But the SEO job market is the clearest leading indicator I’ve seen of how companies are actually valuing AI skills, so I followed the data off the usual map. 946 SEO job […]
Microsoft’s latest wave of advertising updates will get covered feature by feature — new targeting tools, diagnostics, commerce integrations, Copilot enhancements. That coverage will miss the more important story. Microsoft isn’t just shipping better ad tools. Its emerging Microsoft AI ad strategy is making a case for a different internet, one where brands need to […]
Google announced three updates to Search and AI Mode this week, which Roger Montti reported for SEJ. Reading his article motivated me to examine these updates, the broader pattern, and their implications for search this year. Looking at this in detail, it appears the updates push more of what used to be a results-page experience into […]