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Most top news publishers block AI training bots via robots.txt, but they’re also blocking the retrieval bots that determine whether sites appear in AI-generated answers. BuzzStream analyzed the robots.txt files of 100 top news sites across the US and UK and found 79% block at least one training bot. More notably, 71% also block at […]
Google Search Advocate John Mueller says businesses that rely on referral traffic should think about how AI tools fit into the picture. Mueller responded to a Reddit thread asking whether SEO is still enough or whether practitioners need to start considering GEO, a term some in the industry use for optimizing visibility in AI-powered answer […]
Google Search Advocate John Mueller responded to a question about the “Page Indexed without content” error in Search Console, explaining the issue typically stems from server or CDN blocking rather than JavaScript. The exchange took place on Reddit after a user reported their homepage dropped from position 1 to position 15 following the error’s appearance. […]
Google’s AI Overviews (AIO) represent a fundamental architectural shift in search. Retrieval has moved from a localized ranking-and-serving model, designed to return the most appropriate regional URL, to a semantic synthesis model, designed to assemble the most complete and defensible explanation of a topic. This shift has introduced a new and increasingly visible failure mode: […]
How many times have you seen different SERP layouts and results across markets? No two people see the same search results, as per Google’s own documentation. No two users receive identical outputs from AI platforms either, even when using the same prompt. In a time of information overload, this raises an important question for global […]
Google published a research paper about a new AI model for detecting fraud in the Google Ads system that’s a strong improvement over what they were previously using. What’s interesting is that the research paper, dated December 31, 2025, says that the new AI is deployed, resulting in an improvement in the detection rate of […]
Honestly, I don’t get rich guy math sometimes. Today, Elon Musk’s xAI announced that it has completed its latest funding round, raising an additional $20 billion, and putting xAI’s valuation up to around $230 billion in total. As per xAI: “xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round, exceeding the $15 billion targeted round size, […]
The Guardian published an investigation claiming health experts found inaccurate or misleading guidance in some AI Overview responses for medical queries. Google disputes the reporting and says many examples were based on incomplete screenshots. The Guardian said it tested health-related searches and shared AI Overview responses with charities, medical experts, and patient information groups. Google […]
Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! Every year, after the winter holidays, I spend a few days ramping up by gathering the context from last year and reminding myself of where my clients are at. I want to use the opportunity to share my understanding of where we are […]
Google published a research paper about helping recommender systems understand what users mean when they interact with them. Their goal with this new approach is to overcome the limitations inherent in the current state-of-the-art recommender systems in order to get a finer, detailed understanding of what users want to read, listen to, or watch at […]