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• Google's Elizabeth Reid Interviewed On AI, Search, Blue Links, SEO & More: “People are asking longer questions…still want to hear from trusted sources… Publishers should focus on creating high-quality, detailed content that offers a unique perspective…we have a long way to go in reinventing search [and] experimenting with inline links within AI Overviews.” (Link) (Link)

• Study Shows Just 2.1% of ChatGPT Queries Related to Purchasable Products, Despite “GEO/AEO” Hype. This is related to the announcement from ChatGPT integration with Shipify and Etsy. (Link)

• Does Google want to kill the web? “…All that means the end of the open web…” (Link)

• Does Buying Clicks Actually Improve Google Rankings? We Put It to the Test. Overall, the results show that the tests had no positive influence on rankings. (Link)

• How people are using ChatGPT data from OpenAI (Link), the data (Link)

• Optimising for Agentic Commerce Protocol – A Technical Guide for SEOs (Link)

• Meta will use your chats with AI to sell hyper-targeted ads (Link)

• Google AI Overviews With Sticky Citations As You Scroll. Google is testing having the citations stick to the top (of the AI Overview section only) as you scroll down past the AI Overview. (Link)

• AI platforms overwhelmingly cite YouTube, while rivals like TikTok, Vimeo and Twitch barely register in search results, new data shows. (Link)

• Google uses a visual search fan out technique, plus the Google Shopping Graph to provide a more visual experience in AI Mode. (Link)

• A checklist for effective SEO QA (Link)

• Want to Tank Your SEO? Change Shopify Domains (Link)

• Google’s Spam Updates, Explained (Link)

AI News

• Open AI’s Sora 2 is here (see cool videos created via AI) (Link) (Link) iphone app (Link)

• Designing agentic loops (Link)

• The Fearless Future: 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer. (Link)

• Almost all companies invest in AI, but just 1 percent believe they are at maturity. Our research finds the biggest barrier to scaling is not employees—who are ready—but leaders, who are not steering fast enough. (Link)

• California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted (Link)

• Elon Musk announces ‘Grokipedia’ as Wikipedia alternative from xAI (Link)

• Top A.I. Researchers Leave OpenAI, Google and Meta for New Start-Up

  Founded by a co-creator of ChatGPT, Periodic Labs aims to build artificial intelligence that can accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other fields. (Link)

Cool Tools

• Sora - Iphone App (Link)

• TextCortex - AI agents for internal Org. data (Link)

• Kilo Code - AI coding tool (Link)

• Suno - Music Creator (Link)

• WellTrade - AI buy, sell, hold Investment research (Link)

• Pencil - Design mode for Cursor (Link)