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Perplexity Blocks Time's Markdown Ads and Calls the Practice Deceptive
Perplexity is blocking Time's markdown-based agent ads from its search index, warning of downgraded trust scores and set...
Publishers Plot a Post-Google Playbook as Earnings Reveal Diverging Bets
Earnings calls from the NYT, News Corp, People Inc, USA Today Co., Ziff Davis and BuzzFeed show publishers building vide...
Google’s AI Search Now Pulls YouTube Videos into Answers — Brands Must Adapt or Disappear
As Google’s AI Overviews increasingly cite YouTube content to build answers, brands face a new discovery landscape where...
Publishers Start Blocking Google's AI Crawlers, Facing a Brutal Trade-Off
Cloudflare will soon default to blocking Google’s crawlers for publishers like the Financial Times and Condé Nast, as a ...
AI Search Is Rewiring SEO — and the Industry Is Already Trying to Game It
Self-dealing listicles, hidden prompt injections and synthetic-prompt tools are the new battleground as marketers race t...
GigaOm Pitches Benchmark Reports as a Sales Weapon for Enterprise Tech Vendors
GigaOm is selling its benchmark reports as independent, lab-tested validation that helps enterprise tech vendors close t...
AI Search Is Rewriting How Hotels Get Discovered — Budgets Are Chasing It Upstream
Only 6% of hotels surface in AI search results, and zero-click Google searches are soaring. Hospitality leaders are shif...
French Magazine Publishers Accuse Google of Violating Antitrust Commitments with AI Search Tools
SEPM says Google launched AI Overviews and AI Mode without consultation, turning itself into a direct competitor using p...
AI search is silently reordering website visibility — here’s how to verify and raise your citation rate
AI-generated answers now pull from sites without a click, shifting the goalposts for SEO. New data shows traffic grew 66...