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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. What Web IQ […]
AI systems are now answering questions about your business. The problem is that they are often getting it wrong. Consider the typical situation. A brand’s products, services, expertise, locations, leadership, and relationships are distributed across dozens of pages. An AI model retrieves fragments from those pages, stitches them together probabilistically, and generates an answer. The […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Google has spent 25 years learning how to measure user satisfaction in Search, including engagement, sessions, return behavior, and bounce-backs, saying that those metrics help Google improve AI Search. When asked about the concept of Google Search traffic dwindling to zero, the Google Zero scenario, Pichai insisted that the reality […]
Anyone selling you llms.txt, content chunking, or AI-specific schema as the path to AI Overview citations has been wrong for 18 months. Google said so. But there is a wrinkle worth pulling out. “Wrong for Google Search” is not the same as “wrong for AI agents.” In the section answering whether SEO is still relevant […]
A new analysis from Peec AI, an AI search visibility platform, found that Google’s AI Overviews appeared in about 87% of the 500,000 prompts it studied. The sample skews toward commercial, buying-intent queries and leaves out navigational searches. So the figure describes a specific slice of search, not Google overall. What Peec Found For decision-stage […]
Welcome to the week’s Pulse. Each update this week influences what can appear inside Google’s AI answers, and why. Google brought Preferred Sources into AI Overviews and AI Mode, new data looks at how personal data changes which brands appear in AI Mode, and Google’s CEO discussed AI Overview quality. Here’s what matters for you […]
Google announced that Preferred Sources is coming to AI Overviews and AI Mode, alongside new article carousels and an expansion of the “Highly Cited” label across search results. Users have now selected more than 345,000 sources through Google’s Preferred Sources feature, up from roughly 90,000 when the company expanded the tool globally. Preferred Sources In […]
A new report from iPullRank looks at how Google’s Personal Intelligence feature influences how brands appear in AI Mode. The SEO agency analyzed 1,922 AI Mode responses and found a 46-percentage-point lift in mentions of brands seeded through a Personal Intelligence-connected account. What They Found In Personal Intelligence-connected accounts, the brands they tested appeared more […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged the company is “a bit behind” the frontier on agentic coding. Pichai called coding “very foundational” to Google’s AI work. He made the comments on the New York Times Hard Fork podcast. The interview came days after Google’s I/O developer conference. Where Google Sees The Gap When asked about Google’s […]