New Study Points to Holes In AI Overviews
The NY Times commissioned a study that says AI Overviews have holes in both grounding and accuracy.
Google AdSense Will Experiment With New Ad Technology Partners
Google announced that on August 20, 2026 it will experiment with an updated set of commonly used ad technology partners. If the experiments go well, Google will switch it “on or after June 5, 2026.”
Google Search Console Testing AI Contribution
It looks like Google is testing a new report within Google Search Console named AI contribution. I have no clue what it looks like but I suspect it is a lot like the Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance reports.
Google Still Processing Status To XML Sitemaps – Nothing To Announce
Google was asked if it is possible to add a new status to the XML sitemap statuses for “still processing.” John Mueller from Google responded on Blueshy saying, “I’ve chatted with the teams involved about this on & off, I’ve seen that it can be annoyi…
Google May Ignore Links From Sites That Spam & Violate Policies
Google’s John Mueller reconfirmed that Google Search may simply ignore outbound links from sites that violate its search spam policies. This is not new, Google has been doing this manually and algorithmically for years now but he reiterated this on Bl…
From Vibe to Viable: The Silver Era of Vibe Coding Has Begun
I just posted: “The Silver Age of Agentic Vibe Coding has begun: the era of scalable, economically viable agentic systems is just opening. If you missed the first sprint, the next one rewards discipline and taste more than raw speed.” (see the tweet) A…
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…
Travel Marketing: How to Compete and Future-Proof in 2026 — Whiteboard Friday
Prepare your travel brand for AI search in 2026. Chloe Osunsami shares how to use digital PR, human-first narratives, and tailored outreach to boost visibility.
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. …
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