AI Slop Cleanup Job Listings Up 87%, Report Says via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
The Guardian reports AI cleanup listings are up 87%, while freelancers say clients lowball the work. The post AI Slop Cleanup Job Listings Up 87%, Report Says appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google AI Mode Prices Differ From Product Carousel For Same Items via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Data finds Google AI Mode rarely shows the same products as the regular results carousel, and often lists a different seller when it does. The post Google AI Mode Prices Differ From Product Carousel For Same Items appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s Mueller comments on a sitemap SEO method that forces search engines to crawl and index web pages every day. The post Google Responds To Sitemap SEO Technique That Forces Daily Crawling appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Gemini 3.8 Flash rolling out in Google Search
Google Search has upgraded AI Mode to use its latest Gemini model, Gemini 3.8 Flash. This comes just a couple weeks after Google AI Mode was powered by Gemini 3.7 Flash. Like with the 3.7 release, 3.8 Flash can be used in AI Mode searchers for Google AI…
Google Adds Gemini 3.8 Flash To AI Mode via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google added Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode’s model menu on release day. The post Google Adds Gemini 3.8 Flash To AI Mode appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The Next AI Protocol Won’t Save Your SEO Strategy via @sejournal, @billhunt
Publishing a format is not the same as possessing the knowledge. Bill Hunt on why knowledge architecture outlasts every AI protocol. The post The Next AI Protocol Won’t Save Your SEO Strategy appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google avoids AdX breakup in ad tech antitrust case
A federal judge rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s bid to force Google to sell its AdX advertising exchange, allowing the company to keep the business despite an earlier ruling that it illegally monopolized parts of the publisher advertising…
Evolving SEO for 2027: What still needs to change
SEO is becoming less about optimizing for a channel and more about understanding the user, wherever they look. AI Overviews are no longer the experiment we were all watching. They launched in the U.S. in May 2024, got messy in public, and Google…
Lily Ray on why shortcuts rarely win in SEO or AI search
Watch this video on YouTube Early in Lily Ray’s SEO career, her CEO offered her a deal: Get the company to No. 1 in Google, and he’d buy her a drum set. This was around 2011. Ray had discovered that buying links worked. Really well. So she kept buying…
Creative targeting is quietly fragmenting your Meta audiences
It’s time to stop cloning your winning ad and start planning creative like a media buyer, with one distinct message for every audience you want to reach. Audience fragmentation has long been a structural problem in Meta advertising: too many ad sets…