Catégorie : Social Media

New research from BrightEdge shows that while AI Overviews (AIO) has expanded its coverage since launch, it surprisingly doesn’t represent a complete shift away from traditional organic search results, as just over half of queries continue to trigger classic search results. AIO Grows 52% In One Year A twelve-month comparison from February 2025 to February […]

For the past couple of decades, SEO has been about linear visibility. Your website ranks for more keywords in higher positions, which, in turn, drives more clicks, and has been benchmarked by total opportunities in search (MSV) and ranking comparisons against your competitors. This model worked well because search operated within a shared reality, and […]

More U.S. consumers in an Adobe Express survey said they’ve used TikTok for search than in the company’s 2024 survey. But the platform’s position as a Google challenger may be weaker than the headline numbers suggest. An updated report from Adobe Express, published February 17, surveyed 807 consumers and 200 small business owners in the […]

NewzDash published an analysis comparing Discover visibility before and after Google’s February 2026 Discover core update, using panel data from millions of US users tracked through its DiscoverPulse tool. It compared pre-update (Jan 25-31) and post-update (Feb 8-14) windows across the top 1,000 domains and top 1,000 articles in the US, California, and New York. […]

SerpApi filed a motion to dismiss Google’s federal lawsuit, two months after Google sued the company under the DMCA for allegedly bypassing its SearchGuard anti-scraping system. The filing goes beyond disputing the technical allegations. SerpApi is challenging whether Google has the legal right to bring the case at all. The Standing Question SerpApi’s core argument […]

In January, I wrote about the birth of agentic commerce through both Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), and how this could impact us all as consumers, business owners, and SEOs. As we still sit on waitlists for both, this doesn’t mean that we can’t prepare for it. UCP fixes a real-life problem […]

Hiring a digital marketer is no longer about finding someone who knows a few platforms well. Most candidates can talk through Google Ads, social media, or analytics tools at a surface level. That is table stakes now. What separates a strong hire from a risky one is how they think when performance shifts, privacy rules […]

When ChatGPT Search builds an answer, it can generate background web queries to find sources. A new report from AI search analytics firm Peec AI found that a large share of those background queries run in English, even when the original prompt was in another language. Peec AI analyzed over 10 million prompts and 20 […]

Getting Real About AI Visibility Tracking If you’re on the search or marketing team right now, you’ve probably been asked some version of: “Are we showing up in ChatGPT?” or “What’s our visibility in AI Overviews?” And honestly? Most of us are still figuring that out. Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews […]

In January, Alphabet passed Apple in market capitalization to become the second most valuable company in the world. Alphabet was worth $3.885 trillion. Apple sat at $3.846 trillion. Only Nvidia, at $4.595 trillion, was ahead. That alone would be news. But the context makes it something else entirely. Courts had found that Google violated antitrust […]