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Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how you measure AI search visibility, whether you can opt out of it, and how the completed core update reshaped rankings. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Adds AI Search Controls And Reports To Search Console Google is testing two new Search Console features for […]
Google is beginning to test two new Search Console features. One is a toggle that lets you control whether your site appears in generative AI Search features. The other is dedicated performance reports showing when URLs from a site appear in generative AI features across Search and Discover. Both features are rolling out to a […]
Microsoft announced Web IQ, a set of grounding APIs that let AI agents pull information from Bing’s search index. The company calls Web IQ “a search engine for AI systems.” Where Bing helps people find web pages, Web IQ helps AI agents find information they can use while reasoning through a task. See also: where […]
Google’s May core update is now complete. The company confirmed the completion on June 2 on the Search Status Dashboard. The update started May 21 at 8:40 AM PDT and ended June 2 at 5:40 AM PDT, for a rollout of 11 days and 21 hours. That’s close to the March core update, which finished […]
Do you know who your audience is and what they want? Over the last 20 years or so, we used to rely almost purely on data to answer that question. But as cookie tracking and user signals declined and analytics shifted toward sampling (what we refer to as the “signal-loss era”), we’ve lost some of […]
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 […]
OpenAI wants you to know that its technology helps you figure out what to cook for dinner. Google wants you to feel the warmth of a family settling into a new home with Gemini by their side. Anthropic would like you to see its Claude as the clean, trustworthy alternative to the ad-cluttered mess everyone […]
Microsoft’s Bing team published a framework describing how indexing requirements change when the goal is to ground AI answers rather than to rank search results. The post identifies five measurement areas where the company says the two systems diverge. It also names “abstention” as a design choice for AI-powered retrieval. What Microsoft Described The post […]
Google previewed several updates to its advertising measurement tools, including a new open-source incrementality testing solution and an enterprise platform for marketing mix modeling. The announcements come ahead of Google Marketing Live on May 20, where the company says it will share more about how Google Analytics is evolving. What’s New The updates cover data […]