Perplexity Blocks Time's Markdown Ads and Calls the Practice Deceptive
Technology

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...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 43 💬 0
Publishers Plot a Post-Google Playbook as Earnings Reveal Diverging Bets
Companies

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...

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Google’s AI Search Now Pulls YouTube Videos into Answers — Brands Must Adapt or Disappear
Technology

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...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 29 💬 0
Publishers Start Blocking Google's AI Crawlers, Facing a Brutal Trade-Off
Technology

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 ...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 34 💬 0
AI Search Is Rewiring SEO — and the Industry Is Already Trying to Game It
Technology

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...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 27 💬 0
GigaOm Pitches Benchmark Reports as a Sales Weapon for Enterprise Tech Vendors
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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...

Eitan Shapiro 👁 39 💬 0
AI Search Is Rewriting How Hotels Get Discovered — Budgets Are Chasing It Upstream
Travel

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...

Maya Golan 👁 27 💬 0
French Magazine Publishers Accuse Google of Violating Antitrust Commitments with AI Search Tools
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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...

Declan Byrne 👁 38 💬 0
AI search is silently reordering website visibility — here’s how to verify and raise your citation rate
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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...

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