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Alchemy United retweeted
Critical PHP vulnerabilities to be disclosed tomorrow: php.net/archive/2026.php.
We're working directly with the PHP Foundation to get patched PHP versions into our base images for Laravel Cloud, Forge, and Vapor ASAP.
You may need to redeploy your apps at that time to use these patched versions, but we're also working on the ability to silently patch applications without needing a redeployment.
All customers have been emailed and we will be providing further updates via email as the situation evolves.
Alchemy United retweeted
Definitely interesting as OpenAI continues to build its own search index (and core search and anti-spam systems) -> ChatGPT Search Can Draw On More Pages After A Cloudflare Pilot
"Cloudflare’s network signals are used by OpenAI to help its search crawler find web pages with value. The blog post gives several examples of these pages, such as the user guide of a particular washing machine, the most recent information regarding passport requirements and fees and a restaurant’s menu and hours. It states that these pages “can be valuable even if few other sites link to them.”
"The July 8 announcement stated some of the new signals that will be utilized, including how recently a page has been updated, the quality of traffic to a website and what updates have actually been made to a page. Additionally, the announcement states that this information comes from participating websites. However, neither announcement explains who participated, nor whether the new pages are on their sites."
searchenginejournal.com/chat…
Alchemy United retweeted
Dr Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize winner, renowned scientist explains what’s required to have a great career and life.
“Make sure you do something you enjoy”.
“Tell them to go to hell”.
Alchemy United retweeted
ChatGPT links aren't passing UTM parameters and tracking anymore
seroundtable.com/utm-paramet…
Alchemy United retweeted
It's interesting since the August spam update only took two days to roll out, but it was POWERFUL and impacted a lot of sites. I'm eager to see how this spam update looks since it's going to take longer. Again, stay tuned. And for those gaming AI search visibility, this should be a giant heads-up...
Google's @JohnMu confirmed this September Spam update will take longer than the previous spam updates and take two weeks or so to roll out - added to story at seroundtable.com/google-sept…
Alchemy United retweeted
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: Best Tools for Gut Health and Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
0:00 Dr. Chris Thompson
2:16 Digestive Tract, Gut Hormones & Nutrient Absorption
8:06 Colon Microbiome & Colon Cancer Screening
11:13 Sponsors: LMNT & Lingo
13:40 Swallowing Problems & Zenker's Diverticula
16:08 Bowel Movements & Constipation
18:28 Fiber, Resistant Starch & the Gut Barrier
21:50 Intermittent Fasting & the Gut Microbiome
23:38 Fermented Foods, Microbial Diversity & Butyrate
27:12 H. pylori, Stress & Stomach Ulcers
30:20 GLP-1 Medications: Benefits & Limitations
33:42 Lower GLP-1 Doses, Weight Regain & Muscle Loss
37:35 GLP-1 Side Effects, Food Noise & Apathy
39:49 Bariatric Surgery & Medical Innovation
46:07 Sponsor: AG1
47:44 Hunger & Satiety: Ghrelin, CCK, GIP & GLP-1
50:01 Retatrutide & Combining Hormonal Targets
52:55 Ultra-Processed Foods, Overeating & Leptin
55:32 Incretin Discovery, Exendin-4 & the Gila Monster
59:35 Endoscopic Ultrasound & Pancreatic Biopsy
1:07:40 Early Metabolic Markers, CGMs & Fasting Insulin
1:13:06 Insulin Resistance & Metabolic Flexibility
1:15:53 Sponsor: Function
1:17:35 Patient Data, Screening & Treatment Adoption
1:26:31 AI, Robotics & Improving Procedures
1:29:27 Choosing a Surgeon & Measuring Procedure Quality
1:35:29 Image Guidance & Hyperspectral Imaging
1:37:19 Sponsor: Our Place
1:38:56 Diagnostics & Targeted Metabolic Treatments
1:42:45 Gastric Bypass, Foregut Exclusion & Diabetes
1:47:59 Duodenal Liners & Mucosal Resurfacing Research
1:52:58 Gut Permeability, Inflammation & Fatty Liver
1:59:39 Artificial Sweeteners, Fructose, Fats & Omega-3s
2:05:00 Resistance Training, Zone 2 Cardio & Intervals
2:06:31 Weight Set Point & Metabolic Adaptation
2:08:13 Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty & Fundus Ablation
2:10:30 Magnetic Intestinal Connections & Combined Treatments
2:16:52 GLP-1 Gene Therapy Research
2:22:13 Innovation, Problem Solving & Teamwork
2:25:58 Zero-Cost Support, Sponsors & Neural Network Newsletter
Includes paid partnerships.
The guy needs help. Let's hope he take this opportunity to get it.
techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/au…
Alchemy United retweeted
Sorry, one more comment about this, since I fear site owners might jump to disavowing when they shouldn't. The site owner on Reddit explained they have unnatural links, old guest posts purchased via fiverr... This is probably why John explained the disavow tool has its place... Again, if you never set up unnatural links, DO NOT start disavowing.
If you have a manual action for unnatural links, or if you knowingly set up unnatural links, then go for it. But if you never set up unnatural links, never bought links, never participated in some link scheme, etc., THEN STEP AWAY FROM THE DISAVOW TOOL.
BTW, I've helped a number of clients nuke their (large) disavow files that never should have been disavowing in the first place. I also wrote a case study about one of those:
gsqi.com/marketing-blog/goog…
Alchemy United retweeted
Google has confirmed this btw. The cat and mouse game continues:
“We have a long history of deploying technical measures against evolving forms of abuse, and we regularly take steps to protect our services and users.”
I still think the tracking tools can pull the urls, so not sure this will mess that up. The urls are still in the code. Will be interesting to see how this goes -> Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies
seroundtable.com/google-sear…
Alchemy United retweeted
If you're a news or media publisher, heads-up. You can get the new 'Preferred sources' button code now from Google:
"Now when a user clicks on the Preferred Source button, it adds the site as a Preferred Source on Google and immediately directs them back to where they left off on the publisher’s page."
"Google also said that so far “people have already selected more than 600,000 unique sources.” So it seems like users are using this feature. In May 2026, Google said that number was 200,000, that is a 200% increase."
Had a meeting (read: screener interview) last wk w/ @multidots and was asked about #jquery (not vanilla #JS) but no questions about #AI. Huh?? ! So I guess this is #WordPress in 2026? Good to know. 🤪😜😝🤣
Alchemy United retweeted
Shout out to Prime Mover, one of the only free WordPress plugins I have found that allows you to export a child site from a Multisite network, it also converts it to a single site format too if you want, very well done and it deserves more recognition:
wordpress.org/plugins/prime-…
Alchemy United retweeted
The merging of Gemini and Search continues. It's a big deal when Google adds features to the homepage...
Google home page with "Create images," "Ask about files," and "Brainstorm" buttons next to I'm feeling lucky button seroundtable.com/google-home… hat tip @b4k_khushal
Alchemy United retweeted
Again, this is now... imagine a year down the line or longer... I feel this is all headed down a very dangerous path -> OpenAI says Astra may have reached Critical cyber threshold
"OpenAI says it has expanded safety testing around its upcoming model Astra as it “cannot rule out” critical cyber capabilities, potentially delaying its launch" testingcatalog.com/openai-sa…
Alchemy United retweeted
Is another web index on its way? Possibly... and this time it's from Meta. ChatGPT grounding is already getting sketchy... and Claude is heavily using Brave. Now Meta's AI will possibly ground via its own web index. This will be interesting to follow... h/t @rustybrick
Meta staff DM'd me secretly
Posted with permission
Meta is ALLEGEDLY building their own Google search engine, so that if their AI does a web search it doesn't end up at Google, as Google could then use it for THEIR training, so they want their own web index that they will then use as their own Meta search engine for their AI
Interesting 🤔
Alchemy United retweeted
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the newish ways ChatGPT is structuring its fan-out queries to limit its searches down to a handful of trusted results.
From the research I'm doing, I see a few trends:
⭐ the better models tend to do more searches and include more 'site:' queries in their search - 10+ searches for ChatGPT5.4 thinking, vs. 2-3 fan-outs for ChatGPT 5.3 Instant
⭐ the models appear to be doing various types of site: searches, depending on the query. For example:
⭐ ⭐ Reddit is used heavily (including querying specific subreddits) to get users' opinions about things, like reviewing products
⭐ ⭐ ChatGPT is heavily referencing authoritative sites, especially .gov sites, for many YMYL-oriented queries, such as "site:http: //cpsc.gov [product] recall". I checked ~20 prompts today in the legal space and all 20 of them only returned citations from .gov domains!
⭐ ⭐ for product specs and pricing, the models are leaning heavily into brand-specific searches, like site:http://sephora. com or site:http:// costco. com
⭐ ⭐ if you ask a question related to a product/service, ChatGPT will often do site: searches from the most well-established, trusted brands in the space, even if you didn't mention their name in the query
At the same time, others like Mark Traphagen have spotted how ChatGPT is included more in-line links to well-known brands as part of the response.
The impact of all this?
More ChatGPT traffic for Reddit and trusted brands. Fewer citations for everyone else. I think OpenAI swung hard in the opposite direction from "citing any random site that writes a listicle about itself."
Are others seeing similar patterns in their own data?
Alchemy United retweeted
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Alchemy United retweeted
“We ingested 20M URLs, trained a proprietary embedding model, ran 47 regressions, controlled for 300+ variables, and applied a novel entropy-weighted citation index to determine what the top LLM-recommended brands have in common.
The answer is… wait for it…
They rank well in search engines, have a Wikipedia page, and get talked about on Reddit.”
🤯🤯🤯
Alchemy United retweeted
Yep, it's the roadmap leading up to AI Mode as the default (or something like AI Mode)... And I shared yesterday that France is already at 28% for AIOs in the SERPs (and that just launched).
