A CFO asked her AI assistant to research cloud infrastructure vendors for a major investment. The assistant came back with a careful comparison. It had weighed options, named trade-offs, and confidently recommended one vendor. It was the kind of answer you forward to the team and act on. But she’d forgotten a moment from six…
Google is expanding its Limited Ad Serving policy to cover additional scenarios on Google Search. According to an email sent to advertisers, implementation will begin gradually in June 2026 and continue through 2028. The update introduces new guidance around advertiser qualification, user reports, and advertiser identity. It also includes a recommendation for advertisers to pin…
Everyone is using AI now. And almost everyone is using it the same way. You log into Google Ads, export a report, paste the CSV into ChatGPT or Claude, get an analysis, then repeat the whole process for Meta, Google Analytics 4, and whatever else is on your plate that week. Same painful process, every…
Y Combinator’s motto, “Make something people want,” was never about the product. It was about distribution. Build the thing that finds product-market fit, and the people come. For 20 years, that distribution ran through search engines, social algorithms, paid ads, and word of mouth. All human-mediated channels. That changed. In the past six months, Cloudflare,…
Taylor Borden, an editor at LinkedIn, emailed me last week with a question she’s putting to a handful of writers for a special edition of her newsletter, The Work Shift. The premise was backed by data that shows entrepreneurship on LinkedIn is up nearly 70% year over year, more than six in 10 of those…
As an industry, we’re still learning and working out how to approach AI prompt tracking effectively. A lot of tools have evolved in a short space of time, approaching the problem in the same way we have rank tracking. Rank tracking has always had some level of variance, but the levels of personalization have been…
Google updated their site migration guidance to include new information about using the Search Console Change of Address tool for moving domain names. The Search Console Change of Address Tool Google Change Of Address tool is for helping site owners who are migrating a site from one domain to another domain. The tool helps Google…
No matter what their goal-based starting point, SEO, PPC, and content teams often work with different priorities and from different inputs. Channel and content resource work separation isn’t new, but the pressure has increased as search results have become even more complex. Depending on the query, Google can include AI Overviews, text ads, shopping results,…
TL;DR: I ran a small experiment to try and get some insight into whether large language models actually parse schema markup or are just nodding politely in its direction. I put a fake company address (inside beautifully invalid JSON-LD, on a page about ducks) into the head of an HTML document, mentioned no address anywhere…
Microsoft Advertising has launched Product Explorer, a new Merchant Center feature designed to help advertisers better understand product status and performance. The tool provides a searchable view of product catalogs. Advertisers can quickly see which products are serving, which have issues, and which are driving results. Product Explorer is currently available to U.S. advertisers with…