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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 […]
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews about a brand near them, the answer increasingly comes from a Reddit thread. For many brands, their owned content is not showing up. Across most industries, Reddit is now the single most-cited source in AI search. For multi-location brands, that creates a problem most haven’t […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged room for improvement in AI Overviews when shown a live product-query result during a Decoder podcast interview with Nilay Patel. Patel showed Pichai a live search result. Pichai called it “more opinionated than it should be” for the query. The interview was recorded after Google I/O 2026. What Pichai Said […]
If a user types your brand name into Google or Chrome, you might reasonably assume they are about to visit your website. Google has always been a place people pass through on the way to somewhere else, but AI Overviews are changing how long that passage takes, and what happens during it. To assess these […]
Last week, I read Giulia Panozzo’s article about rethinking audience targeting in a signal-loss era. I also read Harry Clarkson-Bennett’s article about creating non-commodity content. And then I read Matt G. Southern’s article about Google’s new AI search guide officially calls AEO and GEO “still SEO.” Reading them together, I kept hearing the same message: […]
Google announced two new ad formats for AI Mode during Google Marketing Live: Conversational Discovery ads and Highlighted Answers. Both formats are powered by Gemini and designed to place ads more directly inside AI-generated responses and recommendation flows. According to Google, the formats will include an independent AI explainer that synthesizes information about a product […]
“There is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.” That’s Dario Amodei in January, writing about the technology his company sells. Compare with what’s on your LinkedIn timeline this week. Here’s the script: Schema markup ensures AI engines parse your content. The first sentence […]
Google’s Search and Chrome documentation now point in different directions on llms.txt, depending on whether the goal is Search visibility or agentic browser readiness. Google Search recently published a new optimization guide that lists llms.txt among the tactics you don’t need for generative AI features. The guide groups it with content chunking, AI-specific rewriting, and […]