Meet Elaine: YouTube Transcription Specialist at Thisisagency.ai
At the vanguard of Agency’s data verification layer is Elaine, the Agency’s dedicated YouTube Transcript Analyst and master quote miner. Instead of broadly searching the web for new content, Elaine serves as the Agency’s surgical extraction…
Meet Ava: YouTube Search Specialist at Thisisagency.ai
Ava is a specialized, multimedial AI agent designed to expand the Agency’s intel-gathering capabilities beyond standard search results and directly into the video ecosystem.
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Google Testing Jumping To AI Mode Directly From AIOs ON DESKTOP
In January Google announced a change to how AI Overviews worked where clicking the “Show more” button at the end of an AIO would directly take you into AI Mode. But that was only on mobile. Now it seems Google is testing that functionality, but on de…
âJarvis Approachingâ: Google’s Sundar Pichai Signals an Agentic, Multi-Threaded Future for Search
Google’s Sundar Pichai was on the Cheeky Pint podcast and was asked about the future of Search. He basically laid out a future where Search is Jarvis-like where users will be completing tasks and have “many threads running”…
Google Ads Testing New Layouts for Multi-Location GBP Assets?
Spotted in the wild are what appear to be swipeable GBP location assets.
Programming Note: Offline For Last Days Of Passover Wednesday & Thursday
This is a programming note that I am completely offline for the last days of Passover holiday Wednesday and Thursday. I am likely not going to schedule any stories, I apologize (still in recovery mode). So I apologize for the lack of stories here. …
See how your brand appears in AI-generated answers, for free
Eligible Yoast customers can now run a free Yoast AI Brand Insights scan and get a personalized report showing how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini see your brand. Your brand is part of the AI conversation whether you’re monitoring it or not. Yoast AI Brand Insights, part of the Yoast SEO AI+ plan gives you visibility into what AI tools say about you, how often you appear, and whether the […]
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Brand Bias in Prompts: An Experiment
We tested 300 prompts to measure how common brand mentions are in LLM responses. See the data on how brand, soft-brand, and non-brand queries impact visibility, including a surprising look at the volume of brand mentions generated by Gemini.
How Thisisagency.ai approaches Ethical AI, copyright, and the Law – by Design, not by Accident.
There’s a conversation happening in boardrooms, courtrooms, and congressional hearings right now that every AI company is trying very hard to avoid having in public: where does your training data come from, and do you have the right to use it? M…
GSC Logging Error Yielded Inflated Impressions Since May 2025
Google announced a logging error on Friday, April 3rd in the data anomalies report and explained that error prevented the accurate logging of impressions in GSC since May of 2025. That’s right, almost a full year of inaccurate impressions…
Gemma 4 Brand Authority Map
We asked Google’s open-weight model Gemma 4 (31B) to “name 100 brands at random” 14,044 times and compared the results to our earlier Gemini 3 Flash experiment (200,000 runs). Of the top 50 brands in each model, 39 overlap. The 11 that are unique to each reveal a pattern: Gemini remembers luxury and automotive (Porsche, […]
Grokipedia Continues To Drop in Search Visibility And AI Search Visibility
In February I shared how Grokipedia started dropping heavily in Google after initially surging. It became yet another example of what I call “Mt. AI”. That’s when sites scaling heavily with AI-generated content initially surge in Google, but then dro…
Chrome’s New Shopping Classifier
One of our AI SEO hall-of-famers, Olivier de Segonzac from RESONEO has managed to gain access to Google’s shopping classifier model. We’ve examined the model, reverse engineered its inference pipeline and this article is what we found. Model Demo Below is a real-world implementation of the model tested by loading a shopping-related page and following […]
Reddit Brand Strategy for AI Search — Whiteboard Friday
Learn how to build a Reddit brand strategy for AI search. Victory Umurhurhu explains how to navigate Reddit communities to boost visibility and build audience trust.
Codename: Agency is now Thisisagency.ai
Codename: Agency is now called this Thisisagency.ai.
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AI Summaries Have Created 2 Unsolvable SEO Problems
As the misguided hype about Google’s AI Overviews “stealing clicks” begins to die down (slowly) in the face of contrary evidence (never mind the fact that no one was entitled to whatever clicks they were receiving from Google SERPs to…
Search Central Live is Coming to Shanghai in 2026!
We are hosting Search Central Live Shanghai 2026 on May 15.
This event is structured for the local community, with a specific focus on
optimizing sites that target users outside of China.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 1, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Going offline for Passover tonight through Saturday night…
Programming Note: Offline For Passover Thursday & Friday
This is a programming note that I am completely offline for the Passover holiday Thursday and Friday. I am likely not going to schedule any stories, I apologize (still in recovery mode)…
Google Ask Maps Fully Available In US and India
Earlier this month, Google rolled out the “Ask Maps” feature. Now, Google said it is “available to everyone in the U.S. and India.”