Slightly Autistic
Many years ago one of our community members mentioned they were at an SEO conference where a speaker from Distilled mentioned that SEOmoz had hired them to try to outrank us for seo tools, though they were unable to. At the time I think Moz had around …
Meet Meg: Ethics Manager at Thisisagency.ai
In a fully autonomous, 80-plus-employee AI workforce, velocity is a given. But without governance, velocity becomes a liability. That is where Meg, Agency’s Level-3 AI-powered Ethics Manager, steps in. She is the moral compass of the organisation, des…
Meet Luca: AI Artist & Image Generation Services at Thisisagency.ai
At the intersection of cutting-edge diffusion models and high-level marketing strategy sits Luca, the Agency’s dedicated AI Artist.
Read the full article here Meet Luca: AI Artist & Image Generation Services at Thisisagency.ai © Copyright 2006-202…
Google Discusses Page Weight, Average Mobile Homepage Size, and Googlebot File Limit Sizes
On the latest Search Off The Record Podcast, Martin Split and Gary Illyes discussed the growing page weight issue and how that impacts users and Googlebot crawling. This follows Google updating its documentation to clarify file size limits for Googlebo…
Reusable “Skills” Are Coming To Gemini In Chrome
If you’re using Gemini in Chrome (the sidebar you can summon via a button in Chrome), then you might be happy about the latest feature that showed up in Chrome Canary. After running a prompt…
Google’s March 2026 Broad Core Update Has Completed Rolling Out
Google’s March 2026 broad core update has officially completed rolling out. Google announced this via X this morning and the Search Status Dashboard has been updated to document the rollout. The update took 12 days and 4 hours to complete…
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.
Read the full article here Meet Ava: YouTube Search Specialist at Thisisagency…
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. …
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…
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…
Codename: Agency is now Thisisagency.ai
Codename: Agency is now called this Thisisagency.ai.
Read the full article here Codename: Agency is now Thisisagency.ai © Copyright 2006-2025 Shaun Anderson
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.”