Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying

https://www.theverge.com/tech/900302/ai-seo-industry-google-search-chatgpt-gemini-marketing

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #seo #search #searchengines #aislop

Search Is About To Change In A Very Predictable Way

In early 2023 Microsoft's Bing search engine integrated OpenAI's ChatGPT into their user interface. It was a game-changing experience for us. Reflective Dynamics had spent 8 years building up Bing referral traffic to many of the sites in our company portfolio. Since Randy Ray and I founded the company in 2012 we haven't just offered SEO consulting for clients - we've managed a growing portfolio of affiliate Websites - and some personal interest sites - for ourselves.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #google #bing #quantum #ai #search #marketing

https://blog.reflectivedynamics.com/search-is-about-to-change-in-a-very-predictable-way/

Times of India: Aravind Srinivas’s Perplexity AI faces lawsuit over sharing users’ data without consent; company responds. “Perplexity AI has been accused of sharing user data with major tech companies – Google and Meta without proper consent. According to a report by Bloomberg, a lawsuit has been filed against Perplexity AI, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas accusing the company of allowing […]

Search Engine Land: ChatGPT ads are showing up – a lot. “In a test of 500 questions across the mobile app, roughly one in five questions in a new conversation thread triggered an ad at the bottom of ChatGPT’s response — always as a website link button, always tailored to the topic of the question.”

You know what I miss? Empty search results. It’s SO annoying not to find what I am looking for, because the #searchEngines decided to return the results for ‘similar’ search terms.

#webSearch #enshittification

YOU CANNOT REVERSE-ENGINEER HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORK FROM API DOCS.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #google #bing #brave

AI Summaries Have Created 2 Unsolvable SEO Problems

As the misguided hype about Google's AI Overviews "stealing clicks" begins to die down (slowly) in the face of contrary evidence (never mind the fact that no one was entitled to whatever clicks they were receiving from Google SERPs to begin with), two very real problems have emerged for Website publishers. One of these problems was created by the search engines and answer engines and only they can solve it.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #ai #aioverviews #google #searchengines #analytics

https://www.seo-theory.com/ai-summaries-have-created-2-unsolvable-seo-problems/

Search Engine Journal: Google Begins Rolling Out March 2026 Core Update. “Google has begun rolling out the March core update, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard.”

I will say it again: #AI tools are often better at finding sources for me not because it's a good technology but because #SEO and #SearchEngines in general are so shit. The concept of the #SearchEngine and result ranking needs to be reworked from the ground-up.

#ArtificialIntelligence #SearchEngineOptimization

#Design #Opportunities
The big box vs. site search paradox · Let’s win users back from global to local search https://ilo.im/16bp6k

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#User #Conversations #Search #SearchEngines #Findability #Content #IA #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign