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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 […]

If you approach the Asia-Pacific search strategy as simply an extension of your U.S. or European Google strategy, you will miss how discovery actually works across the region. Google is still dominant in many markets. But the landscape is far more fragmented than most global teams assume. Japan is a clear example. Bing holds 31.63% […]

Microsoft announced a wave of AI updates this week, and most of the coverage will likely focus on the individual launches. New targeting options, diagnostics, commerce tools, Copilot enhancements, and campaign features will naturally get the headlines. What stood out to me was the broader vision behind them. Microsoft is not just talking about better […]

Google’s head of Search, Liz Reid, told Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast that AI Overviews are reducing “bounce clicks” from publisher pages, continuing an argument she has made in public appearances since last year. Reid appeared on the April 23 episode of Odd Lots. Hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway asked how AI Overviews affect publisher […]

OpenAI’s public crawler documentation now lists OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and help determine ad relevance. The entry sits alongside OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, and ChatGPT-User on OpenAI’s crawler docs page, bringing the documented bot count to four. OpenAI states that OAI-AdsBot only visits pages submitted as […]

We are fortunate to have a wide range of SEO tools available, designed to help us understand how our websites might be crawled, indexed, used, and ranked. They often have a similar interface of bold charts, color-coded alerts, and a score that sums up the “health” of your website. For those of us high-achievers who […]

For well over a decade, SEOs and marketers have debated the importance of high-quality, original content. After just about every major update, the message from Google was clear: If you want to rank, cut it out with the derivative listicles and other quick-churn assets that are big on keywords and light on substance. More recently, […]

Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! When an AI answers a question using your content, it usually cites you with a source link. What it doesn’t do, 62% of the time, is say your name. The link is there. The brand mention is not. This is what I like […]

For 30 years, checkout has been a page. A form with fields for name, address, credit card number. Whether it was Amazon’s one-click patent or Apple Pay’s fingerprint, the innovation was always about making that form faster to get through. The form itself never went away. Now it is. This is the final article in […]

Google is rolling out updates to AI Mode in Chrome. Clicking a link in AI Mode on Chrome desktop now opens the webpage in a side panel. The updates are live in the U.S. and will expand to more countries soon. Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a […]