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Over three weeks in July, I ran a survey asking people who work on AI search visibility what they think of the platforms built to measure it. 163 responses. This is a self-selected sample recruited through my own network and its re-shares (as well as paid ads on LinkedIn and X), so it describes engaged […]
Every month, a non-profit called Common Crawl fetches over 2 billion webpages and gives the copy away to anyone who wants it. That free archive is where most AI training data starts. When Mozilla audited the LLMs released between 2019 and 2023, 64% had trained on Common Crawl data in some form, and GPT-3 was […]
In the first half of 2026, search behavior shifted under our feet, software valuations cratered on sentiment rather than proof, and companies blamed layoffs on AI long before anyone could show the receipts. Kevin Indig posted a link on LinkedIn last week to his AI Halftime Report, H1 2026, and it is worth noting that […]
I got tired of watching the industry treat “an AI bot fetched it” and “ChatGPT said it helps” as evidence that llms.txt does anything, so I invented a standard called cats.txt: a text file in which you formally declare your office cats, their jobs, their breeds, and how often they purr. I wrote a specification, […]
Microsoft Advertising introduced its first monthly product newsletter on LinkedIn this week. It brings together several features announced over the past few months while introducing new capabilities across AI reporting, Performance Max testing, and creative review. Rather than focusing on entirely new products, the August update expands existing tools with additional reporting, experimentation, and workflow […]
John Shehata, CEO of NewzDash, found something in July that a lot of publishers threatening to block Google’s AI don’t realize is already happening underneath them. Google has started folding entire Top Stories carousels directly inside AI Overviews, and the robots.txt directive most publishers reach for first does nothing to stop it. Shehata posted on […]
Google is rolling out a Search Console setting that lets you pull your content out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover’s AI features without leaving Search. That’s a choice we haven’t had before, and regulators in the UK now require Google to offer it. Whether to use it is a harder question than it […]
Rand Fishkin, the co-founder and CEO of SparkToro, posted on LinkedIn on July 24, 2026, to say that Similarweb’s newest report would “probably infuriate” two groups at once. The AI zealots who are certain every marketing dollar should already be chasing chatbot visibility. And the AI skeptics who’ve suspected the hype was overblown but never […]
Y Combinator’s Diana Hu recently interviewed Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. Cherny said that Claude Code is more capable than is commonly understood, saying that prompt engineering is largely not important. Given that Claude doesn’t require “overthinking,” he suggested Claude Code users would be better off unfollowing AI influencers […]
Kevin Indig just settled an argument that’s been running in half-finished form since AI Overviews launched. Does topical authority that rewards brands for going deep on a subject instead of wide, actually carry over into AI search? Or is ChatGPT enough of a blank slate that a generalist brand can walk in and grab a […]