Google Search pauses AI-generated images within AI Overviews
Google has paused an experiment within Google Search to create AI-generated images within AI Overviews for recipe results. Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, replied to this test minutes ago saying, “This was a small experiment we’re no longer…
The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console via @sejournal, @suganthan
Search Console records what people say to AI Mode. Here’s how to pull those fragments out and sort them into seven buckets. The post The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google Lets You Turn Off Visible Watermarks In Gemini via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google Gemini allows users to disable the visible watermark on AI-generated images, videos, and music, while SynthID and C2PA marks stay embedded. The post Google Lets You Turn Off Visible Watermarks In Gemini appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Llms.txt V2 Adds Formal Markdown Linking For AI Agents via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A v2 update to the llms.txt spec has shipped, adding formal link relations that help AI agents locate Markdown versions of pages. The post Llms.txt V2 Adds Formal Markdown Linking For AI Agents appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Google updates Demand Gen view-through conversion optimization
Google is changing how view-through conversion (VTC) optimization works in Demand Gen campaigns, expanding support to more inventory while shifting optimization to focus exclusively on video assets. The update also changes the default campaign settings…
The AI visibility index: Which brands are vanishing from AI search?
Some of the brands with the strongest SEO footprints barely appear in AI answers. Others with much smaller search footprints show up again and again. Fractl analyzed how consistently AI models recommend brands, which brands disappear despite strong SEO…
The $113,000 paid search test: How much traffic did organic replace?
I turned off $113,000 a month in paid search. Thirteen weeks later, 65% of the paid-attributed revenue had been recaptured through organic and direct, and the analysis showed that nearly nine out of 10 dollars in the branded campaign I studied had been…
Inside ChatGPT’s retrieval stack: The index, cache, and pages it actually reads
When ChatGPT cites a web page, where did that page come from? In July, our team at RESONEO captured and dissected 1,200 ChatGPT answers, 88,000 search results, and 26,900 distinct pages to find out. (Disclosure: I’m the co-founder of RESONEO.) We found…
The Paid ‘Search’ Email Placement: Right Place, Right Time via @sejournal, @jonkagan
Email placements work, but not as a replacement for email marketing. What Demand Gen and Audience Ads actually deliver, and how to set them up. The post The Paid ‘Search’ Email Placement: Right Place, Right Time appeared first on Search Engine…
AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
AI assistants narrow local searches before customers reach a website. See how Google builds those answers and which local signals businesses can optimize. The post AI Assistants Are Choosing Local Businesses For Your Customers appeared first on Search…