AI Search / SEO / GEO + Automation + Data Analyst mit Web Dev & Marketing Background | ๐Ÿธ+๐Ÿ๐Ÿ”ฅ

Joined October 2015
Helpful post by @sistrix on how they are approaching the rank tracking situation: โ€œWhat weโ€™re doing: Our quality checks detected the divergent results early on. Since then, we have only published results that have additionally passed multiple checks. If a new result fails the check, we collect the keyword again until a verified result is available. This takes time, which is why some keywords are currently updated less frequently.โ€ sistrix.com/support/google-rโ€ฆ
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Iโ€™ve noticed this a few times lately: AI Overview citations appear to be dropping letters and words followed by - But itโ€™s inconsistent when and why this happensโ€ฆ like this T in E-E-A-T ๐Ÿซ  @Marie_Haynes
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Google quietly added a Decisions API to Chrome's codebase ๐Ÿ‘€ We reconstructed and tested it: ๐Ÿ”น EmbeddingGemma: 38% accuracy ๐Ÿ”น Laya: 64% ๐Ÿ”น Gemma 4: 85% On-device intent detection, free inference... and potential implications for advertising. ๐Ÿ‘‡ think.resoneo.com/chrome-decโ€ฆ
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๐ŸŽ‚ RESONEO's Chrome extension V6 is here! 4,300+ users Gemini: search fan-outs, cited passages & a mysterious hidden prompt classifier (35 topics, 47 tasks, 22 follow-up types). ChatGPT: ads captured, including advertisers, campaigns & persistent IDs think.resoneo.com/scrap-chatโ€ฆ
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Did you know you can search specific sites through Brave Search? ๐Ÿ”Ž There are over 12,000 shortcuts (or search bangs) you can put at the beginning of queries to search those sites directly. For example, searching "!r best laptops" would show you a list of discussions about best laptops on Reddit. Here are some other shortcuts you can use ๐Ÿ‘‡ !a - Amazon !ae - AliExpress !ap - Associated Press !bb - Best Buy !cb - Crunchbase !cws - Chrome Web Store !e - eBay !egs - Epic Games Store !f - Flickr !fb - Facebook !gh - GitHub !gog - GOG !hb - Humble Bundle !hn - Hacker News !i - Brave Search Images !ia - Internet Archive !ig - Instagram !li - LinkedIn !m - Brave Search Maps !n - Brave Search News !nf - Netflix !nyt - New York Times !pin - Pinterest !pv - Prime Video !q - Quora !sc - SoundCloud !so - Stack Overflow !spt - Spotify !ste - Steam !ta - TripAdvisor !tc - TechCrunch !v - Brave Search Videos !w - Wikipedia !wa - Wolfram Alpha !wb - Wikibooks !x/!tw - X / Twitter !yt - YouTube
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Agent checkout approved. Eager to hear how this goes :) -> Shopify announced that browser-based AI agents can now complete purchases on Shopify merchant sites via WebMCP "Shopify previously supported WebMCP for its storefronts and carts, allowing browser-based AI agents to comb through a Shopify retailerโ€™s inventory, search for products, and add them to a cart. The addition of WebMCP support for checkout, including Shop Pay, means these agents can now read the checkout screen, update it, and submit the transaction with the buyerโ€™s authorization, without relying on screenshots or scraping web pages, the company said." techcrunch.com/2026/09/28/shโ€ฆ
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SEO News: Google Lighthouse is adding a new audit for AI agents. This includes using Google's new Agentic Resource Discovery specification.
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I just checked a dozen unrelated terms in Google Trends (US, past 12 months) and every single one showed the same #1 region: Wyoming (The least populated state in the U.S.) Drill down, and it's all coming from Cheyenne - a town of 67K. Even if Google Trends normalizes by a region's total search volume, not by population... that wouldn't explain why Cheyenne, Wyoming leads in search demand for *every query* I checked. Unless Google Trends data is inaccurate? Cheyenne, Wyoming also happens to be a data center hub (link in comments). So perhaps the explanation might be that a lot of non-human traffic is coming from that location? Which would line up with something I've been wondering about for the past year: how much of the unusual spikes in search volume we've been seeing in Google Trends (the "SEO" surge over the past year, for example) is actually coming from real humans. Try it yourself: check any term in Google Trends in the US for the past 12 months. Curious whether you get Wyoming too.
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Looks like it dates back to June 2026 (dated late May 2026), before the August spam update and now September spam update. It's Googleโ€™s second system identified in 2026 designed to catch AI slop -> Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE "Google has published a research paper about detecting spam that mimics a human manual review that catches content that violates the โ€œspiritโ€ of policy violations and platform guidelines. The system is called Scaled Abuse Forensics Examiner (SAFE) and it is expressly designed to identify AI-generated content." "The paper says SAFE identifies โ€œspirit of policyโ€ violations primarily with a few-shot-trained LLM. The goal of SAFE is to catch content that may not match an existing rule or known violation pattern but still violates the intent of the policy or platform guideline and can go undetected by traditional classifiers and fine-tuned violation-detection models." searchenginejournal.com/googโ€ฆ via @martinibuster
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Today we released the September 2026 spam update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/incโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿš€ See what's new in 1.64! Highlights: ๐Ÿ“Š st.echarts_chart for Apache ECharts โณ Async/await support in app code ๐Ÿ”„ Live updates for st.text_input 1.63 + 1.64 demos: 1-63-1-64-release-demo.streaโ€ฆ Notes: docs.streamlit.io/develop/quโ€ฆ
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Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union's strict privacy rules because it mishandled users' location data, the bloc's data privacy watchdog said Monday. Read more: abcnews.link/xRY9Ran
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๐Ÿ†• in AI Overviews answers Google is now testing showing anchor links which instead of taking to a webpage takes to AI Mode. Another day - Another Tactic! from Google to push users from usual search results to AI Mode #SEO
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๐Ÿ” ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ถ๐˜. Over the past few weeks, weโ€™ve been analyzing ChatGPTโ€™s retrieval system to better understand what happens between a prompt and the sources that end up in an answer. Metehan YeลŸilyurt discovered a retrieval leak that gave us access to new information about this process. We used the data to identify ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐—š๐—ฃ๐—ง. ๐Ÿ”Ž The data contains internal engines, external providers, and dozens of Labrador variants for areas including Reddit, news, finance, legal, medical, local search, images, and more. Weโ€™re making the full list available for everyone to explore. ๐ŸŒ As the GEO Research Team at Peec AI, we want to make these systems easier to understand, share what we learn, and give others data they can test and build on. There are still many unknowns in the data. Some engines donโ€™t have a clear purpose yet. Weโ€™re also continuing to test which engines are triggered for different types of queries and how frequently they are used. This is where more people looking at the data can help. ๐Ÿงฉ If you can identify one of the unknown engines, reproduce when a specific engine is triggered, or find something we missed, let us know. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—น๐—น ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜„. ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ. Tomek Rudzki ยท Metehan YeลŸilyurt ยท Jan Ehrlinspiel ยท Malte Landwehr GEO Research Team @ Peec AI linkedin.com/pulse/complete-โ€ฆ
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Every site owner running ads (especially a lot of ads) should run this TODAY :) -> Google debuts โ€˜ad detection tool,โ€™ letting marketers better assess ad experiences in Chrome "Google today announced new ad detection tools within its Chrome User Experience Report, or โ€œCrUX,โ€ geared towards helping paid-for media teams, both on the buy- and sell-side of the industry, better assess audiencesโ€™ ad-load experiences. โ€œWeโ€™ve all encountered overwhelming ad experiences on the web,โ€ reads a blog post, marking the launch, which expands on metrics already available within CrUX." How it works: "Fielding follow-up queries from Digiday, Google offered further insight into how CrUX assessment works under the hood, noting how Chrome identifies advertising using a combination of network-level filtering and analysis of script execution. For example, URLs matching its ad filter list can be classified as advertising, while Chrome can also identify resources or frames created by scripts it has already classified as ad-related. Chrome then samples the visible viewport once per second to calculate ad count and density. CPU and network consumption are instead accumulated over the userโ€™s session, with CrUX ultimately reporting results at the 75th percentile." digiday.com/media-buying/gooโ€ฆ
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OK, looks like Gemini 3.8 Flash is now providing links. When it first rolled out, there was a bug and there were barely any links being provided. @gaganghotra_ was the first to report that and I saw that as well (and shared some screenshots). Here is what the AI Mode response looks like now via 3.8 Flash. Much, much better. Thanks @rmstein. The first screenshot is this morning and the second is when it first rolled out. Big difference...
Amazing, I'm glad this is a bug. I knew something wasn't right. Let's hope more links show up soon.
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Don't do it. For a number of reasons. And add that I fully believe we will see a Penguin-like event targeting "inauthentic mentions" this year. Google is well aware of what's going on, hence the section in their guide to AI search experiences mentioning "inauthentic mentions". :)
Marie has a TON of experience on this subject and we are lucky she shares it publicly. โค๏ธ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ
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Google Chrome: use incognito! Google Search: identify yourself ๐Ÿ‘ฎ๐Ÿผ
3รจme page de Google en navigation privรฉe ๐Ÿ™„#antiscraping
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So, lets wrap it up: Google /goto URLs in Search (1/3) ๐ŸŸ Google masks search result links with a /goto?url= parameter that 302 redirects to the target ๐ŸŸ Google tries to hit AI chat competition and rank tracker ๐ŸŸ Google does it so poorly that ... david-epding.de/post/google-โ€ฆ
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(2/3) ๐ŸŸ Google tries to collect data of SERP misuse as every reload has a unique encryption (same url different encrypt) ๐ŸŸ but Google starts indexing the urls theirselves ๐ŸŸ Google updates robots.txt to block /goto? parameter which is somewhat useless against 302 redirected urls
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(3/3) ๐Ÿ”ตAI chats such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude all show /goto? links as sources ๐Ÿ”ตrank trackers celebrate as Google left multiple loopholes to retrieve the target urls without the need to request the /goto? urls ๐ŸŸฐ Google Search is just broken from the inside out
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