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Two identical searches now return different results across AI platforms, upending ranking logic.Lucas Tieleman, co-founder and CEO of Optiversal and former Chief Product Officer at Bazaarvoice, helps enterprise retailers convert static product catalogs into machine-readable conte ...  Show more

AI Overviews now appear in 40% of Google searches, up from 6% in six months. Lucas Tieleman, co-founder of Optiversal, helps enterprise retailers turn static product catalogs into machine-readable content that performs across Google, ChatGPT, and Google Merchant Center. He breaks ...  Show more

In this episode of Search Off the Record, Martin and Gary from the Google Search Relations team take a deep dive into how Googlebot and web crawling work—past, present, and future. Through their humorous and thoughtful conversation, they explore how crawling evolved ...

In this episode of SOTR, John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes talk about misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality, what's challenging about crawling the web nowadays, and how search engines could crawl more efficiently. Resources: Episode transcript → https: ...  Show more

This week we dig into the ways chatbots are starting to manipulate us, including ChatGPT’s sycophantic update, Meta’s digital companionship turn and a secret experiment run on Reddit users. Then Kevin reports back from the unveiling of a new eye-scanning orb. And finally, we’r ...