When conversational AIs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Mode generate snippets or answer summaries, they’re not writing from scratch, they’re picking, compressing, and reassembling what webpages offer. If your content isn’t SEO-friendly and indexable, it won’t make it into generative search at all. Search, as we know it, is now a function of artificial…
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Google’s Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, explained that Google Search is converging with AI in a new manner that builds on three pillars of AI. The implications for online publishers, SEOs, and eCommerce stores are profound. Three Pillars Of AI Search Google’s Stein said that there are three essential components to the “next…
At the end of 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT and opened up an easy-to-access interface to large language models (LLMs) for the first time. The uptake was stratospheric. Since the explosive launch, ChatGPT hasn’t shown signs of slowing down in developing new features or maintaining worldwide user interest. As of September 2025, ChatGPT now has a…
What I’m about to say will feel uncomfortable to a lot of SEOs, and maybe even some CEOs. I’m not writing this to be sensational, and I know some of my peers will still look sideways at me for it. That’s fine. I’m sharing what the data suggests to me, and I want you to…
What if your SEO strategy could predict what customers want before they even search? The shift from keyword-centric to behavior-driven SEO is important. When you understand why people search, not just what they search for, your content naturally becomes more relevant and your performance more sustainable. Google processes over 5 trillion searches annually, and many…
Our new usability study of 37 participants across seven specific search tasks clearly shows that people: Read AI Mode Rarely click out, and Only leave when they are ready to transact. From what we know, there isn’t another independent usability study that has explored AI Mode to this depth. In May, I published an extensive two-part…
AI Mode is Google’s most powerful AI search experience, providing answers to complex questions in a way that anticipates the user’s information needs. Although Google says that nothing special needs to be done to rank in AI Mode, the reality is that SEO only makes pages eligible to appear. The following facts, insights, and examples…
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) unveiled a new logo for the organization that is designed to transcend one language family and expresses abstract qualities like timelessness and reliability. The result is an abstract logo in the familiar blue and white colors, purposely designed to be evocative, to suggest but not concretely explain. This evocative…
OpenAI released the largest study to date on how users really use ChatGPT. I have painstakingly synthesized the ones you and I should pay heed to, so you don’t have to wade through the plethora of useful and pointless insights. TL;DR LLMs are not replacing search. But they are shifting how people access and consume information.…