Confirmed: Perplexity to Let Publishers Share in Revenue from AI Searches "The startup, which is building an artificial intelligence search engine to compete with Google, has allocated $42.5 million to be distributed among publishers in the program, according to Perplexity Chief

Google's Robby Stein says Google is testing changes to AI Mode to encourage clicks and engagement to publishers and websites seroundtable.com/google-tests-a…

Today we’re unveiling updated image editing in the Google Gemini App. Our model is currently #1 on the lmarena.ai image edit leaderboard and it lets you edit, add to, blend and remix your images while preserving important details like a person’s likeness.

Today we released the August 2025 spam update. It may take a few weeks to complete, and we'll post on the Google Search Status Dashboard when the rollout is done: status.search.google.com/incidents/a7Aa…

Good to see folks questioning the hype before everyone follows the hawkers off a cliff like lemmings chasing tiny volumes of traffic

Who knew? People still want to search. Spoiler. Humans are infovores by nature.

And shame on some of our industry tools for also feeding into this nonsense

PSA: If you're using Wordpress + anti-spam plugins, check to see if it's blocking AI assistants and AI search as well. I installed WP Armour to help with comment spam and it blocked Chat GPT and all its referrals, impacting lead generation.

Plus when the curtain is pulled back and the followers you were trying to engage with via artificially generated pithy content réalisé it was all a charade, it’s over. Authenticity still counts for plenty.

Did anyone ever really used to say "ever changing landscape" before AI slop emerged?

Well, it finally caught on. 😂 Many publishers are now explaining to readers how to add them as a "Preferred source" in Google. Again, very smart to do this. Via Jim Robinson on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/posts/jamesmro…

Might have got a bit carried away making Autumnal baked goods.

Seriously quicker to do these things yourself using Canva and your brain. ChatGPT efforts at a simple A-Z glossary of AI Search terms. What a load of crap.

More from Cloudflare about how AI companies need to pay -> Q&A with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince on why he thinks AI chatbots imperil the web and journalism's future, his company's pay-per-crawl initiative, and more "We’re not blocking RAG and search yet, but that’s coming

Google once again shoots down the idea of GEO being different than SEO... Great segment from Danny about this at 29:58 in the video. From Danny: "Good SEO is good GEO, or AEO, AI SEO, LLM SEO, or LMNOPEO. What you've been doing for search engines generally is still perfectly

Check out my latest article: Increasing reliability & validity of AI generated content: a mathematical approach linkedin.com/pulse/increasi… via LinkedIn

Cloudflare Search Referral Report for Q2 2025 based on 25M websites globally: Google 88.9% Bing 3.0% DDG 1.1% Yahoo 0.7% Brave 0.4% OpenAI 0.23% radar.cloudflare.com/reports/search…

Google’s Danny Sullivan: ‘Good SEO is good GEO’ via Danny Goodwin searchengineland.com/google-danny-s…

Open AI don’t need to hire a content strategist, they can just gather up all the underwhelming ChatGPT generated approaches from SEOs on social media trying to prove they’re the ´$399k one’. Try-hards are out in force

🤣🤣🤣🤣 AI Generated nonsense