Rand Fishkin, the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro, posted on LinkedIn on July 24, 2026, to say that Similarweb’s newest report would “probably infuriate” two groups at once. The AI zealots who are certain every marketing dollar should already be chasing chatbot visibility. And the AI skeptics who’ve suspected the hype was overblown but never […]
Google’s ‘Generative AI’ Search Console Data Is A Trap For Marketers
Google introduced new reporting features inside Search Console at the start of June. The update provided publishers with impression counts earned across AI Overview answer boxes and AI Mode panels. At first, this was mostly celebrated as a major win for organic search measurement, and search teams assumed these new data points offer clear visibility […]