#  @glenngabe Glenn Gabe Glenn Gabe posts on X about $googl, google, open ai, ai the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::14592937/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] -47% - [--] Month [-------] +130% - [--] Months [---------] +42% - [--] Year [---------] -27% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::14592937/posts_active)  - [--] Month [---] +40% - [--] Months [---] +78% - [--] Year [---] +6% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::14592937/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.19% - [--] Month [------] +0.59% - [--] Months [------] +3.30% - [--] Year [------] +6.50% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::14592937/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [stocks](/list/stocks) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [finance](/list/finance) [countries](/list/countries) [currencies](/list/currencies) [events](/list/events) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [vc firms](/list/vc-firms) **Social topic influence** [$googl](/topic/$googl) #2461, [google](/topic/google), [open ai](/topic/open-ai) #1831, [ai](/topic/ai), [search](/topic/search), [microsoft](/topic/microsoft), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [meta](/topic/meta), [core](/topic/core), [tiktok](/topic/tiktok) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@rustybrick](/creator/undefined) [@johnmu](/creator/undefined) [@lilyraynyc](/creator/undefined) [@searchliaison](/creator/undefined) [@gaganghotra](/creator/undefined) [@mariehaynes](/creator/undefined) [@inspiredtaste](/creator/undefined) [@martinibuster](/creator/undefined) [@screamingfrog](/creator/undefined) [@aiktp_com](/creator/undefined) [@dannysullivan](/creator/undefined) [@semrush](/creator/undefined) [@ahrefs](/creator/undefined) [@joyannehawkins](/creator/undefined) [@mayankjee](/creator/undefined) [@openai](/creator/undefined) [@facan](/creator/undefined) [@jongillhams](/creator/undefined) [@darthna](/creator/undefined) [@sachupatel53124](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Reddit, Inc. (RDDT)](/topic/reddit) [Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)](/topic/cloudflare) [Spotify Technology (SPOT)](/topic/$spot) [Shopify Inc (SHOP)](/topic/$shop) [April (APRIL)](/topic/april) [Sora (SORA)](/topic/sora) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Work on a large-scale site You should check out my latest post about quality indexation. I provide a GSC hack that can help you better analyze various sections of a site & identify directories with high indexation & low search value. This has greatly helped me over the years. Quality indexation is an extremely important topic (esp. for large-scale sites). Here's my latest - Revisiting The SEO Importance of Quality Indexation For Large-Scale Sites: Hunting High Indexation and Low Search Value By Directory Case Study https://t.co/0HxSgKMTlL https://t.co/aeomVB2Oti Quality indexation is an" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1228696394787164160) 2020-02-15T15:03Z 81K followers, [--] engagements "Shocking ;) Glad to see more share about this - No structured data is not helping your visibility across AI Search tools You can read posts from Julio and Mark below. Another GEO tactic being pushed without data backing it. Glad Julio and Mark posted about this. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/julio-guevara_this-is-just-wrong-i-have-seen-this-advice-activity-7371443709680185345-Zpciutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAFUiYUBc529kqRUB0OhVrQtWpoW9jiP2eQ" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1966488203688333731) 2025-09-12T13:04Z 81K followers, 12.7K engagements "Ah the Google partnership still paying off big-time :) - Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $585M vs. $546M est. and daily active uniques up 19% to 116M vs. 114M est.; RDDT jumps 5%+ after hours "Reddits sales jumped 68% year-over-year in the third quarter while net income was $163 million which was $133 million more than the $30 million it logged the previous year during the same period." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/reddit-rddt-q3-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/reddit-rddt-q3-2025.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1984225396045291782) 2025-10-31T11:46Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Cool functionality but is anyone using this It's based on a custom AI model for fashion - Google Expands AI-Powered Virtual Try-On to More Regions (UK and India) "Googles latest virtual try-on models enable users to layer an image of themselves with a range of tops bottoms dresses jackets and shoes so you can get a better sense of how those items will actually look on you in real life." https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-expands-ai-powered-virtual-try-on-to-more-regions/806955/ https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-expands-ai-powered-virtual-try-on-to-more-regions/806955/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1996571385498403044) 2025-12-04T13:24Z 81K followers, [---] engagements "More about Personal Intelligence. Yes I get that people will have reservations about connecting their services to Gemini but this is pretty powerful. Just two quick examples here. There are many. Hey Gemini what did I buy again when I was at Penn State in December Oh can you show me those too https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012892967418139011 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012892967418139011" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2012892967418139011) 2026-01-18T14:20Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "A phenomenal post from Lily about how SEO is evolving AI Search GEO and all that happened in [----]. There are amazing points in the post that site owners c-level executives and yes AI search people should read and internalize. Covers the rise of llm visibility tracking new GEO recommendations that are not new at all (at least for SEOs) the danger of executing GEO tactics without understanding how sophisticated search systems will handle (and possibly penalize) those tactics the importance of query fan-out the increasing importance of social and Digital PR and more. Seriously go read it. You" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013603748891803785) 2026-01-20T13:25Z 81K followers, 19.8K engagements ""Googlebot sees 3.2X more web pages than OpenAI" - Google Has A Huge Edge Over OpenAI Microsoft Says Cloudflare CEO And It All Comes Down To Data: 'Whoever Has The Most.Wins' Everyone has let them behind their paywall. Everyone has let them see parts of the internet that no one else sees Prince stated." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-huge-edge-over-openai-110102636.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-huge-edge-over-openai-110102636.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013680408924143842) 2026-01-20T18:29Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Pay per view. OMG what does that tell you about clicks from ChatGPT Also with all the scraping going on would you pay for a view - OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers initially charging per ad view not per ad click and asks them for $1M commitments "OpenAI is asking that small pool of advertisers for less than $1 million in spending commitments each over a several week trial period with ads launching in early February the people said." "The company does not yet offer technology for advertisers to easily buy ads themselves but is working on getting self-service ads" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013956883002871938) 2026-01-21T12:48Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Confirmed - ChatGPT Checkouts to Take 4% Cut of Shopify Merchant Sales Remember Google and Bing will not take a cut. Advantage Google (again): "Merchants products will be available for purchase by default in AI checkout features that dont charge an additional fee. For now sales made through Google and Microsofts chatbot checkouts will not carry additional fees the Shopify spokesperson said." "Merchants will pay OpenAI a 4% fee on sales made through ChatGPTs checkout feature a Shopify spokesperson confirmed on top of typical transaction fees Shopify charges such as payments processing."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2014322650118517033) 2026-01-22T13:01Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Yep - The inability to articulate AEO/GEO from SEO. "Another reason for the anti-GEO backlash is that there is a small but loud group of pro-GEO/AEO agencies and individuals who have very little experience with SEO pushing solutions that are at best just SEO and at worst spammy tactics. Its not lost on the SEO community that some of the loudest voices are fresh out of college and have zero experience." "What contributes to the perception that AEO/GEO is not a real thing is that many proponents of AEO/GEO fail to differentiate it from standard SEO. Weve all seen it where someone tweets their" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2014333127393436035) 2026-01-22T13:43Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "And Grokipedia continues to surge in Google. It jumped with the December broad core update and then another big surge around January [--]. ahrefs and Sistrix search visibility trending below" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2015425088456175762) 2026-01-25T14:02Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Well isn't that interesting. "Americans have long suspected that their devices inappropriately spy on them (and then targeted them for ads)" - Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users "Smartphone users accused Google of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations after Google Assistant was triggered in order to send them targeted advertising." https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-settles-google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-68-million-2026-01-26/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016135769388187718) 2026-01-27T13:06Z 81K followers, [----] engagements ""I think we just screwed that up." - Sam Altman Says OpenAI Screwed Up GPT-5.2 Writing Quality https://www.searchenginejournal.com/sam-altman-says-openai-screwed-up-gpt-5-2-writing-quality/565925/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/sam-altman-says-openai-screwed-up-gpt-5-2-writing-quality/565925/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016142846340857981) 2026-01-27T13:34Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Big hill to climb for Yahoo but at least there's this - "Jim Lanzone the CEO of Yahoo told me that Scout is very much close to heart with Yahoos original mission of being the trusted guide to the internet. And thus from the ground up in building Yahoo Scout Yahoo incorporated ways to honor the relationship with the open web by driving traffic downstream to the content creators." Yahoo Scout - Yahoo's return to search and web discovery https://t.co/ipUZOjtBDa https://t.co/YNN8IHeS4F Yahoo Scout - Yahoo's return to search and web discovery https://t.co/ipUZOjtBDa https://t.co/YNN8IHeS4F" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016174285753061562) 2026-01-27T15:39Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "The overwhelming feeling for the rest of today after those announcements from Google and Bing. Now back to work. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016216253996675233) 2026-01-27T18:26Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Huge news. Sites may eventually be able to opt-out of generative Search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode. From Google: "Building on this framework and working with the web ecosystem we're now exploring updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt out of Search generative AI features. Our goal is to protect the helpfulness of Search for people who want information quickly while also giving websites the right tools to manage their content." BREAKING: Google is exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of AI generative search features; like AI Overviews and AI Mode" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016466714448261526) 2026-01-28T11:01Z 81K followers, 19K engagements "It's not just college students. Companies heavily using AI to publish content are doing the same - Some US college students say they are using AI humanizer tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch humanizers https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016497044270051388) 2026-01-28T13:02Z 81K followers, [---] engagements "Meta Q4 - Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B vs. $58.35B est. net income up 9% to $22.8B and family DAP up 7% to 3.58B for December "Ad impressions delivered across our Family of Apps increased by 18% and 12% year-over-year for the fourth quarter and full year [----] respectively." "Reality Labs now has nearly $80 billion in total operating losses since late 2020." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/meta-q4-earnings-report-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/meta-q4-earnings-report-2025.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016856593736896894) 2026-01-29T12:50Z 81K followers, [---] engagements "Microsoft Q2 - Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $81.27B above $80.27B est. net income up 60% YoY to $38.5B and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 26% YoY to $51.5B I wish they would explain more about Search and news advertising. This is all we get each quarter. - "Search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 10% (up 9% in constant currency)" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2026-Q2/press-release-webcast https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2026-Q2/press-release-webcast" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016857243799425233) 2026-01-29T12:53Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "LinkedIn booming - LinkedIn's Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY topping $5B for the first time giving it a $20B+ annual run rate; Satya Nadella says LinkedIn paid video ads grew 30% YoY "Remember when everyone said Microsoft overpaid for LinkedIn Nearly a decade later the $26.2 billion overpriced acquisition now generates that much in revenue every [--] months." https://www.geekwire.com/2026/linkedin-passes-5b-in-quarterly-revenue-for-the-first-time-and-its-tiktok-pivot-is-paying-off/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016857783082103073) 2026-01-29T12:55Z 81K followers, [---] engagements "OpenAI relies on an independent web index for this - Keeping your data safe when an AI agent clicks a link "To operationalize that we rely on an independent web index (a crawler) that discovers and records public URLs without any access to user conversations accounts or personal data. In other words it learns about the web the way a search engine does by scanning public pages rather than by seeing anything about you. Then when an agent is about to retrieve a URL automatically we check whether that URL matches a URL previously observed by the independent index."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016861511310831838) 2026-01-29T13:10Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Of course but my point is about OpenAI building its own index and eventually not having to rely on others. :) They are clearly building that index quickly. This is just more evidence of that. Google's anti-spam systems are going to be 100000X more powerful than OpenAI's at this point. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016865492665811216 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016865492665811216" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016865492665811216) 2026-01-29T13:26Z 81K followers, [---] engagements "Meta's version of Personal Intelligence (Both Google and Meta have a big advantage here) - Zuckerberg Shares Vision of an AI-Powered Future (with personalization based on everything Meta knows about you) "Metas big advantage on this front according to Zuck is its vast knowledge base which already knows all about you. Indeed previous research has shown that Facebook data based on your demographic profile interests engagement etc. can create a highly accurate psychological profile of each user." This also has implications for commerce. Our ads today help businesses find just the right very" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016866691620221078) 2026-01-29T13:31Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Auto Browse in Chrome arrived this morning. It wasn't active yesterday even when the new Gemini sidebar showed up. Auto Browse works with any Gemini model btw. So I gave my new agent a task and asked it to check some of the Google volatility tools collect today's numbers and then present that to me in a table. Took 1:29 and worked pretty well. Amazing to watch it correct itself during the process like loading urls that were 404s then checking the site and finding the right ones. You'll notice that it simply took the Germany reading for Sistrix but in other tests I ran it did change that to" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016951891779797126) 2026-01-29T19:09Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Here comes the IPO - OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an IPO in Q4 [----] and its executives have privately expressed concerns about Anthropic beating OpenAI to an IPO "The $500 billion startup is holding informal talks with Wall Street banks about a potential initial public offering people familiar with the matter said and is growing its finance team." "Pulling off a successful public listing by years end is likely to be difficult for the ChatGPT maker which is still confronting the challenges of a fast-growing startup. The company recently has made changes to leadership ranks and is" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2017218711027917148) 2026-01-30T12:49Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "More AI lawsuits this time Anthropic. And there is precedent now (Anthropic lost a previous case with authors) - Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over flagrant piracy of [-----] works "A cohort of music publishers led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group are suing Anthropic saying the company illegally downloaded more than [-----] copyrighted songs including sheet music song lyrics and musical compositions" https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/music-publishers-sue-anthropic-for-3b-over-flagrant-piracy-of-20000-works/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2017222596748620259) 2026-01-30T13:05Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Whoa - Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9% https://www.reuters.com/business/videogame-stocks-slide-googles-ai-model-that-turns-prompts-into-playable-worlds-2026-01-30/ https://www.reuters.com/business/videogame-stocks-slide-googles-ai-model-that-turns-prompts-into-playable-worlds-2026-01-30/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2017587976503439780) 2026-01-31T13:17Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "Ads are close. There's a new announcement window in the code. And there will be [--] ad formats to start - OpenAI prepares ads for a broader rollout on ChatGPT "OpenAI is advancing towards launching ads in ChatGPT across both web and mobile targeting a broader user base. A new announcement window has appeared in the application code although it is not yet live for users." "The pop-up details several assurances including that ads will not influence model outputs and responses should remain trustworthy. All ads will be distinctly marked to differentiate them from regular responses." "Users will" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2017593667461017871) 2026-01-31T13:39Z 81K followers, [----] engagements "@suganthan I mean seriously can you say scaled content abuse Remember my "Mt. AI" tweet from last week I can see many Mt. AIs if that goes on. :) https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013974465521037563 I think I'll coin this "Mt. AI". Yet another example of a site publishing a ton of AI-generated content that surged. and ultimately came crashing down. I'm sure the site owners were saying "AI content is amazing Look at our trending" . until the crash happened. And that https://t.co/DfWslqThrd https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013974465521037563 I think I'll coin this "Mt. AI". Yet another example of" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2017611749109735901) 2026-01-31T14:51Z 81K followers, [---] engagements "Your PageSpeed Insights scores might go up as of 3/3/21 - "PageSpeed Insights now uses http/2 to make network requests if the server supports it. Previously all requests were made with http/1.1." h/t @tldrMarketing https://glennga.be/3qjgEuH https://glennga.be/3qjgEuH" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1367828759471136768) 2021-03-05T13:26Z 81.3K followers, [--] engagements "Gemini is catching up - Source: ChatGPT has nearly 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini's MAUs grew 30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose 5% to 810M "Geminis growth is also evident on the web. Between August and November Geminis global website visits doubled while ChatGPTs rose about 1% over the same period according to the Sensor Tower data. Monthly active users tell a similar story during the period: Geminis increased roughly 30% to [---] million while ChatGPTs rose about 5% to [---] million."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1998441616470663526) 2025-12-09T17:16Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "YouTube needs to get that under control - A Kapwing study of the [-----] top YouTube channels finds [---] of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers From Kapwing: "We identified the top [---] trending YouTube channels in every country and noted the AI slop channels. Next we used to retrieve the number of views subscribers and estimated yearly revenue for these channels and aggregated these figures for each country to deduce their popularity. We also created a new YouTube account to record the number of AI slop and brainrot videos among the first" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2005634649020584099) 2025-12-29T13:38Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Gemini-powered Siri next month - A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC "By August negotiations with Anthropic had stalled. The startup was seeking several billion dollars annually over multiple years terms that werent favorable to Apple. And partnering with OpenAI posed its own problems: That company was actively poaching Apple engineers and pursuing its own hardware ambitions under former Apple designer Jony Ive an obvious strategic conflict. That left Google." And later" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2015769303325216928) 2026-01-26T12:50Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "I was thinking about this the other day. Does anyone care about Sora anymore - OpenAIs Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch "New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off." "OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment." https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggling-after-its-stellar-launch/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggling-after-its-stellar-launch/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2016921638059520498) 2026-01-29T17:09Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Oh boy watch those Chrome extensions - Malicious Chrome Extensions Perform Hidden Affiliate Hijacking. [--] extensions to be exact. "Socket's Threat Research Team identified a malicious Chrome extension Amazon Ads Blocker that markets itself as a tool to hide sponsored content on Amazon. The extension does block ads as advertised but its primary function is hidden: it automatically injects the developer's affiliate tag (10xprofit-20) into every Amazon product link and replaces existing affiliate codes from content creators."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2018680855279902859) 2026-02-03T13:39Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Ouch - Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new AI developments will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31% CRM fell 6.85% and Thomson Reuters 15.83% If things are advancing as rapidly as we hear from OpenAI and Anthropic its going to be a problem. Investors are starting to go after any of the companies that could be disrupted which is all kinds of software application names https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/software-slump-drags-down-private-fund-managers-6f840d0cst=A1ZFc5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019030699567636970) 2026-02-04T12:50Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Oooh burn :) - Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad Remember that OpenAI commercial with the guy doing pull-ups "The 30-second Anthropic spot features a young man in a park attempting pull-ups who asks a muscular bystander about achieving six-pack abs. The man starts with a detailed if somewhat robotic responselike users might get from an AI chatbotbefore spewing out an ad for StepBoost Max insoles."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019031423060005188) 2026-02-04T12:52Z 81.2K followers, 11K engagements "I'm sure Google is watching closely - Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity "Weekly active users for search over the past year grew 30% from [--] million users to [--] million users. Meanwhile the weekly active users for the AI-powered Reddit Answers grew from [--] million in the first quarter of [----] to [--] million by the fourth quarter." "Reddit suggested on Thursday that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business not just in terms of product but also as a revenue driver impacting its bottom line." "During the companys fourth-quarter earnings" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019767060671168658) 2026-02-06T13:36Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Meta looks to up its agent game based on its recent Manus acquisition. Oh and a shopping assistant could be coming too - Meta AI redies Avacado Manus Agent and OpenClaw integration "That suggests Manus-style agents could come directly to Meta AI. There is also a new menu in development called Tasks where users would be able to schedule recurring executions of Meta AI similar to scheduled prompts in other tools. In other words scheduled tasks seem to be on the roadmap letting users run prompts recurrently. Code traces also suggest they are working on voice agent support." "Referencing the" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020846733379383465) 2026-02-09T13:06Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements "I still can't reproduce this but I really hope it rolls out widely. Hover over link icons in AIOs and see more info and thumbnails. Anything that helps users see the sources of that content with the ability to click through would be great. Google AI Overviews with link card overlay boxes being tested https://t.co/c6Vn9bFTZb via @harpreetchatha_ @SachuPatel53124 @gaganghotra_ https://t.co/FblSRXFvTZ Google AI Overviews with link card overlay boxes being tested https://t.co/c6Vn9bFTZb via @harpreetchatha_ @SachuPatel53124 @gaganghotra_ https://t.co/FblSRXFvTZ" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020848423361032500) 2026-02-09T13:13Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "There were some very interesting nuggets from Reddit's earnings call. Barry covered the part about citations in LLMs and what Reddit would like to see there but there were also several other important points. I shared a thread yesterday with that info which Barry covers as well. For example there was a part about brands/companies understanding that Reddit can yield visibility in Google and LLMs like ChatGPT Gemini etc. And some are renaming their social team to the "Reddit team": "Regarding companies understanding that Reddit threads rank in AI Search well: "Reddit customers" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020850537571160232) 2026-02-09T13:21Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Going through more of the recent volatility and some of the drops are huge. Really looks like 1/27 was a big date. Seeing a ton of volatility right around then. Some examples below. I'm also seeing some sites reverse course from the December core update. I'll share a few screenshots next" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020860077469565077) 2026-02-09T13:59Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "@MarketingOClock @MenachemAni Hey thanks for covering my post about Personal Intelligence And I love the idea of @inspiredtaste cooking those dishes via the Frankenstein recipes from Gemini or AI Mode. Would be a great video. and one I think Google should watch closely. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020893783185862820) 2026-02-09T16:13Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements "Here we go. Will be interesting to follow :) - "Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on whats most helpful to you. When you see an ad they are always clearly labeled as sponsored and visually separated from the organic answer." Were starting to roll out a test for ads in ChatGPT today to a subset of free and Go users in the U.S. Ads do not influence ChatGPTs answers. Ads are labeled as sponsored and visually separate from the response. Our goal is to give everyone access to ChatGPT for free with https://t.co/S9BV24uJLb Were starting to roll out a" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020939896643620989) 2026-02-09T19:16Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements "Focus on Local Heads up - Review Posting Blocks Are Surging. Heres the Data Plus the Patterns Behind Them "A review block is when Google temporarily restricts a Google Business Profile from receiving new reviews (commonly [--] days) typically paired with messaging about suspicious high-rated reviews. via @ClaudiaTomina on @SterlingSkyInc https://www.sterlingsky.ca/review-posting-blocks-are-surging-heres-the-data-plus-the-patterns-behind-them/ https://www.sterlingsky.ca/review-posting-blocks-are-surging-heres-the-data-plus-the-patterns-behind-them/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021213672790479190) 2026-02-10T13:24Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "@MenachemAni It's almost like building a shopping graph containing 50B+ products is hard. LOL" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021232054453559699) 2026-02-10T14:37Z 81.3K followers, [--] engagements "Google's 'Results about you' tool expands to protect your social security number passport info and driver's license. But you have to give Google that info first. Interesting dilemma :) "Click Get started and add the personal contact information you want to monitor. Youll then be prompted to add your government ID numbers. If youre already using the tool simply click to add your ID numbers and input the ones youd like to monitor. To keep your sensitive information safe Results about you employs Googles rigorous security protocols and advanced encryption to prevent misuse and ensure your" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021283276481056951) 2026-02-10T18:01Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Need to check this out in greater detail soon - OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2 a full-screen report view and an option to focus research on specific websites "The search progress can also be tracked in real time interrupted with questions or supplemented with new sources. Results can now be displayed as full-screen reports." https://the-decoder.com/openais-deep-research-now-runs-on-gpt-5-2-and-lets-users-search-specific-websites/ https://the-decoder.com/openais-deep-research-now-runs-on-gpt-5-2-and-lets-users-search-specific-websites/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021567371681386655) 2026-02-11T12:49Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Local Feed - TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel news events shopping and dining near the user's current location after changing its ToS "The new feature also ties into TikToks push to attract small businesses to its app not only as content producers but as advertisers." "Today TikTok confirms the reason its now asking for more accurate location information is to help power the Local Feed. However it notes that users will be able to control whether or not precise location sharing is on and the default will be set to off making this an opt-in experience."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021642037171208633) 2026-02-11T17:46Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Apple is so bad at AI. it's not even funny at this point - Apples Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs Into Snags "But testing uncovered fresh problems with the software prompting the latest postponements said the people who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. Siri doesnt always properly process queries or can take too long to handle requests they said." "Another challenge: The new Siri sometimes falls back on its existing integration with OpenAIs ChatGPT instead of using Apples own technology. That can happen even when Siri should be capable of handling" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021681734333432020) 2026-02-11T20:24Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Focus on Health and Medical Heads-up. But. will users add medical conditions family medical history and more - Perplexity tests Health page with Apple Health integration "The upcoming Health tab is expected to appear as a dedicated module within the main navigation providing users with streamlined access to health-related tools and information. This approach follows the pattern established in other verticals where users can easily switch between specialized modules via the top navigation bar." "The Health module is designed to collect user-specific details through a profile system. In this" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021691547922677976) 2026-02-11T21:03Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "@inspiredtaste @gregfinn Amazing. I wanted to hear more about the Frankenstein recipe though Like how was it what was the difference taste-wise texture-wise etc. You preferred yours which makes total sense but was the Frankenstein recipe really bad or close" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021695099554455956) 2026-02-11T21:17Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Could be a $111B quarter - Alphabet to report earnings after the bell: AI ad momentum key to the fourth quarter Here's what analysts are expecting: Revenue of $111.43B YouTube Advertising $11.84B TAC $16.20B Earnings per share $2.63 Also "Wall Street will be looking for more details Googles deal to revamp Apples Siri virtual assistant with the search companys Gemini AI models." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/alphabet-googl-q4-2025-earnings.html https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019106126944493605 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/alphabet-googl-q4-2025-earnings.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019106126944493605) 2026-02-04T17:49Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Gemini Rising - Google says the Gemini app has 750M+ MAUs up from 650M last quarter and its first-party models process 10B+ tokens per minute via direct API use by customers https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has-surpassed-750m-monthly-active-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has-surpassed-750m-monthly-active-users/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019393333597000045) 2026-02-05T12:51Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "I can't see this yet but AI Mode history is appearing for Damien via his testing in the Google Search App. Yet another way to drive more AI Mode queries. :) A new button has appeared at the top of the Google app before the Discover feed where the Google Labs button used to be. This button now directly opens the AI Mode search history. #googlediscover CC @gaganghotra_ @rustybrick https://t.co/AEqN0l9kEd A new button has appeared at the top of the Google app before the Discover feed where the Google Labs button used to be. This button now directly opens the AI Mode search history." [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021664516057313591) 2026-02-11T19:15Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "So how long before Reddit tanks in Google and then AI search engines like chatgpt perplexity and others based on the AI spam being posted there - AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone Its probably more prevalent than anybody wants to really admit because its just so easy to shove your post into ChatGPT and say Hey make this more exciting says Cassie who thinks as much as half of all content being posted to Reddit may have been created or reworked with AI in some way." Reddit itself is either going to have to do something or the snake is going to swallow its own tail she says. Its getting to" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1997378621434978797) 2025-12-06T18:52Z 81.3K followers, 26.9K engagements "Good Morning Google Land This is the February 4th edition of "Reviews Update Notes". Hey it doesn't roll like "Core Update Notes" but it fits. :) Also at least I *think* it was a reviews update. Google stopped announcing reviews updates a while ago since the system is now "improved at a regular and ongoing pace". But Google said they might announce one if there were significant changes to the system. Well I think that may be the case based on what I'm seeing (and what @lilyraynyc wrote about yesterday). The impact from that latest unconfirmed update has been huge. And yes it expands beyond" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019041111373643874) 2026-02-04T13:31Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Some key quotes from Reddit's Q4 earnings call about Search AI content citations in ChatGPT AIOs and others and more. Regarding Reddit Search vs Reddit Answers (its AI Search): "And then on search we did bring the search bars together for the most part. So you're on the search bar you can you can go into ask and then if you run a traditional search we'll often pop an answer there. I believe we're up from [--] million users per week a year ago to [--] million users now per week. And then we're up from [--] million to [--] million overall users (including traditional search). And we're going to continue" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2020509398477468113) 2026-02-08T14:45Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Spotify Q4. Still a beast - Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to 4.5B Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M and a 701M operating income above 639.1M est. And $11B paid out to the music industry https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-10/spotify-q4-2025-earnings/ https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-10/spotify-q4-2025-earnings/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021205085045371194) 2026-02-10T12:50Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Cloudflare Q4 - Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M above $591.3M est. a net loss of $12.1M but forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14%+ pre-market https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-nyse-net-exceeds-q4-212653680.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-nyse-net-exceeds-q4-212653680.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021568054400843905) 2026-02-11T12:52Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Here we go It's rolling out now - Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini "In fact UCP-powered checkout is rolling out now letting US shoppers buy items from Etsy and Wayfair right in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app (with Shopify Target and Walmart coming soon)." https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/digital-advertising-commerce-2026/ https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/digital-advertising-commerce-2026/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021624401267937497) 2026-02-11T16:36Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Oh boy will your personal agent (AKA Jarvis) manage your social media relationships - OpenAI's Fidji Simo on ads in ChatGPT and ending the Code Red "An AI agent social network: When we asked about social networking ambitions beyond Sora Simo went somewhere unexpected: What happens to social relationships in a world where everybody has their own personal agents And how can these personal agents help you manage your social relationships in a better way She framed it not as agents aimlessly talking to agents like Moltbook but as AI mediating existing human relationships. We havent cracked what" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021641192908202030) 2026-02-11T17:43Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Distillation Attacks - Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by commercially motivated actors who are trying to clone it including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times "In a report published Thursday Google said it has increasingly come under distillation attacks or repeated questions designed to get a chatbot to reveal its inner workings." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-gemini-hit-100000-prompts-cloning-attempt-rcna258657 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-gemini-hit-100000-prompts-cloning-attempt-rcna258657" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021929525408350634) 2026-02-12T12:48Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements ""There are just so many things it is trying to keep up with." Also doesn't sound like an IPO is happening this year. - OpenAIs Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine "Hoping to triple its revenue this year OpenAI must do many things that it has little or no experience doing. It had never before served ads which could undermine the value of its chatbot or worse alienate users. It plans to make even more money by selling technology to businesses even as a long list of rivals compete for the same dollars." "Google has been selling to businesses for decades. So has Microsoft." [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021930945297678476) 2026-02-12T12:54Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Heads-up yet another example of the ad side of Google not on the same page as the organic side. There's a new trigger for when users clicks the back button in their browser. Oof. You will be automatically opted-in unless you opt-out before 3/9/26 - Google AdSense Adds New Triggers For Vignette Ads New trigger: "Navigates backward using their browser's back button on supported browsers (currently Chrome Edge and Opera)." "You have the option to opt out but if you take no action during the review period the new triggers will automatically activate on March [--] 2026."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021935314780975451) 2026-02-12T13:11Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Retargeting for AI Search - Retargeting Has Found Its Way to the Chatbots "The technology is less a quantum leap forward in advertising technology than it is the latest in a series of incremental gains." "Publishers already know the referral source of their traffic according to Index Exchange chief customer officer Marybeth McGaugh. By combining the referral source (ChatGPT for example) with the specific webpage they landed on (Best Family Friendly SUVs Under $40000) the publisher will be able to determine what the user had searched for in the answer engine. Working backward from that" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021943075166114146) 2026-02-12T13:42Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Yep I see it in Canary (see below). Chrome is a natural fit as the beginning stages of Jarvis. So Google enabling users to *automatically* start Chrome when Windows boots up is smart - Chrome can now launch when you boot up your Windows PC "Youre basically treating your browser like part of your operating systems startup routine similar to what youd do with Slack or other work tools. Chromes been adding more features lately to make the browser do more for you so this fits that pattern." https://phandroid.com/2026/02/12/chrome-can-now-launch-when-you-boot-up-your-windows-pc/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021945799299449281) 2026-02-12T13:53Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Yep Claude Code is pretty amazing - Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers "have not written a single line of code since December" "At Spotify engineers are using an internal system called Honk to speed up coding and product velocity the company told analysts on the call. This system allows for things like remote real-time code deployment using generative AI and specifically Claude Code." https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022039957507043453) 2026-02-12T20:07Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Me and I think everyone else waiting to see an actual ad in ChatGPT. I can't trigger one across free accounts yet. And yeah I've been trying. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022001323319931276) 2026-02-12T17:34Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "@Tomiiks Last numbers reported were 810M MAUs for ChatGPT" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2019503285028233635) 2026-02-05T20:07Z 81.3K followers, [--] engagements "This is a big deal. Agents can bypass the UI via WebMCP - Chrome Team announces WebMCP is available for early preview "As the agentic web evolves we want to help websites play an active role in how AI agents interact with them. WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed reliability and precision." "By defining these tools you tell agents how and where to interact with your site whether it's booking a flight filing a support ticket or navigating complex data. This direct communication channel" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021582770326159477) 2026-02-11T13:51Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Claude news. This is all moving incredibly fast - Anthropic prepares Claude Tasks on mobile for browser automation "Anthropic is testing a Tasks feature in Claudes mobile apps bringing Cowork-style automation repeatable actions and possible browser tasks soon." "The strings also hint at broader capabilities attached to Tasks including the ability for Claude to operate a browser as part of execution. On mobile that would imply a workflow where a task can open pages gather information and complete steps in sequence without the user manually driving every tap."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021932993321775218) 2026-02-12T13:02Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Big news The CIA World Factbook is sunsetting. If you remember it was one of the key sources fueling Google's Knowledge Graph in the beginning. Now the Knowledge Graph is way more robust but Wikipedia and The CIA World Factbook were cited by Google as important sources. There are over 7K urls indexed there (for now) but they all redirect to a message about The Factbook shutting down. There are close to 700K inbound links from 20K referring sites. Anyway it's the end of an era. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021939225495544221 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021939225495544221" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2021939225495544221) 2026-02-12T13:27Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Yep Minority Report-like functionality. Spielberg hired futurists when directing the movie. Now Meta is trying to make that a reality. Again we are approaching Jarvis - Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as [----] and considers letting the glasses identify people with public Meta accounts "The feature internally called Name Tag would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Metas artificial intelligence assistant."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022290654219428263) 2026-02-13T12:43Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Pinterest Q4: A miss (both top and bottom) and the stock tanked - Pinterest reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.32B vs. $1.33B est. Net income of $277M MAUs up 12% to 619M and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; PINS drops 17%+ after hours "Ready told analysts on Thursday that the company is not satisfied with our Q4 revenue performance and believe it does not reflect what Pinterest can deliver over time. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/pinterest-pins-q4-earnings-report-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/pinterest-pins-q4-earnings-report-2025.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022291853798715719) 2026-02-13T12:48Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "More audio overviews this time in Google Docs - Google Docs rolling out Gemini-powered audio summaries "Powered by Gemini these summaries provide a short verbal synopsis of the contents in your document including multiple tabs. They are typically under a few minutes long and use a natural speaking style to help you catch up quickly and efficiently." https://9to5google.com/2026/02/12/google-docs-audio-summaries/ https://9to5google.com/2026/02/12/google-docs-audio-summaries/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022294238461870139) 2026-02-13T12:58Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Still the only ChatGPT ad I could find as of this morning. and it's in Google. :) And I'm trying to find one. OK I found a ChatGPT ad . on Google. 🤦♂🤣 https://t.co/F6G3eqv15q OK I found a ChatGPT ad . on Google. 🤦♂🤣 https://t.co/F6G3eqv15q" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022296989103190417) 2026-02-13T13:09Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "Like I've said before ChatGPT will continue to build stronger systems to fight spam security risks and more - Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT *Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT an advanced optional security setting for higher-risk users *Elevated Risk labels for certain capabilities in ChatGPT ChatGPT Atlas and Codex that may introduce additional risk https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022378538196963349) 2026-02-13T18:33Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "What We are entering strange times - A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection and the aftermath "Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022663559667163417) 2026-02-14T13:25Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "A quick update on Reddit's AI translation project. I have covered this heavily via a two-part series in the past. Google explained that scaling via AI translations is ok *IF* the content is high quality. That's the nuance that's tough for many site owners. i.e. Is the content high quality enough to translate via AI Again sites have received manual actions in the past for scaling via automated translations so it was interesting to see Reddit surge like made by using AI to translate content at scale. Well Reddit continues to scale those translations and you can see huge growth over time across" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022672653018906762) 2026-02-14T14:01Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "And here is Spain and Italy when filtering by the AI translated content. Again Reddit is using AI to translate content at scale across a number of languages. My two-part series about this cover that in detail. Anyway it's still working for Reddit and working well. So for large-scale sites out there thinking about scaling via AI translations it comes down to quality. If you scale high-quality content it could be fine (according to Google) but if you scale heavily and it's not high quality according to Google's systems it won't be fine (and could yield manual actions or dropping heavily via an" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2022673451866022210) 2026-02-14T14:05Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements "Nice I see the list is updated with the Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger from @filiwiese. If you're looking for a list of tools to measure Core Web Vitals Olga has you covered. SEO folks I have compiled the list of tools to measure Core Web Vitals. I came up with [--] tools. Let me know if there are any tools I could add to the list. Thanks https://t.co/BzW78aV6hL SEO folks I have compiled the list of tools to measure Core Web Vitals. I came up with [--] tools. Let me know if there are any tools I could add to the list. Thanks https://t.co/BzW78aV6hL" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1389290325185810432) 2021-05-03T18:46Z 81K followers, [--] engagements "Via @johnmu: The June & July broad core updates were separate & unique updates. Just because they are both core updates doesn't mean they affect the same core parts of the ranking system. This is why you could see changes during one but not the other: https://glennga.be/2VwRor6 https://glennga.be/2VwRor6" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1423628383343321089) 2021-08-06T12:53Z 79.9K followers, [--] engagements "And for the current situation with the HCU & LSU from Danny on Mastodon: "Its not that the update is longer to rollout. Its that as I understand we tend to pause things during holiday periods. So the rollout pauses then resumes and the live time is around the same." Google confirms that longer algorithm updates aren't necessarily more intense updates https://t.co/kys9OH55IA via @johnmu answering @ConorMc_1 https://t.co/7ZhJczCVGk Google confirms that longer algorithm updates aren't necessarily more intense updates https://t.co/kys9OH55IA via @johnmu answering @ConorMc_1 https://t.co/7ZhJczCVGk" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1613159875911077897) 2023-01-11T13:04Z 80.8K followers, [----] engagements "More about OpenAI - OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional a premium version of its viral chatbot "Benefits include no blackout (i.e. unavailability) windows no throttling & an unlimited number of messages w/ChatGPT." via @TrishCarey on Mastodon https://glennga.be/3isUhVR https://glennga.be/3isUhVR" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1613183609501847552) 2023-01-11T14:38Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements "It was great to chat with Barry in Princeton about several important topics This is part one covering AI content Bing Chat Bard publisher impact citations and more. There are several more videos that will be released but you can check out part one today. :) I got @glenngabe on my vlog to chat about Bing Chat Google Bard AI-generated content - this is part one of four - watch it at https://t.co/qrEYSKmb1Y I got @glenngabe on my vlog to chat about Bing Chat Google Bard AI-generated content - this is part one of four - watch it at https://t.co/qrEYSKmb1Y" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1653008468364722177) 2023-05-01T12:08Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements "I told you the data was wonky/wrong. :) Statcounter has corrected the search engine market share numbers for April. Google is now at 91% globally and 95% for mobile. So enough with Bing taking huge market share from Google. all in one month's time. That was ridiculous. Here are screenshots for total market share first then mobile. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786713692043706387 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786713692043706387" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1786713692043706387) 2024-05-04T11:05Z 80.8K followers, 21.9K engagements "If you're interested in the March core update and the powerful tremors we have seen since it completed then you should check out my latest case study. I cover a site that got hammered in the fall of [----] by two core updates and the September HCU(X) addressed a big content problem and then started surging back with the March core update. But then several tremors came along. and the site dropped and surged four separate times. It's been fascinating to analyze. and I had to write the case study. My post contains all of the details. Get a cup of coffee first (or three). It's a beast. :) You might" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1795862995110646043) 2024-05-29T17:01Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements "Thanks Jim. Glad you found my post interesting. And regarding "staying in your lane" it's totally fine to focus on small business as a personal finance site If you feel you can do that based on your experience (or that of your writers) then totally fine. I'm referring to going way out of your lane. e.g. If you wrote about yoga supplements or the best french toast recipes then I'd say you need to get back into your lane. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1795873893565002038) 2024-05-29T17:44Z 80.9K followers, [---] engagements "AI news - Google has agreed to pay a licensing fee to chatbot maker for its models and will hire its cofounders and many of its researchers "Characters employees working on model training and voice artificial intelligenceabout [--] of its roughly [---] stafferswill join Google to work on its Gemini AI efforts. Meanwhile Character will switch to open-source models such as Meta Platforms Llama [---] to power its products rather than its in-house models they said." "Characters leaders told staff on Friday that investors would be bought out at a valuation of about $88 per share. Thats about [---] times" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1819463553255866500) 2024-08-02T20:01Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Your blog posts and/or articles should *meet or exceed* user expectations based on query. They don't need a certain word count or a link count. i.e. Understand what your audience needs help with wants to learn etc. and then publish a killer post about that. Don't go nuts doing keyword research writing to a specific word count and definitely don't think there needs to be some magical number of internal links and outbound links. Google's @JohnMu says Google does not count links or words on your blog posts https://t.co/sgCpewrzc2 https://t.co/OOkSzOoqhh Google's @JohnMu says Google does not" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1829128289954275462) 2024-08-29T12:05Z 80.9K followers, 14.4K engagements "@Sebastian121461 Nope drop right on 9/18. I'm keenly aware of many who think they were hit by hcux but it was core. This was hcux" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1841825983864676643) 2024-10-03T13:01Z 80.7K followers, [---] engagements "Here we go - Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B Search revenue up 12% to $49.39B net income up 34% to $26.3B and traffic acquisition costs up 9% to $13.72B https://abc.xyz/assets/71/a5/78197a7540c987f13d247728a371/2024q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf https://abc.xyz/assets/71/a5/78197a7540c987f13d247728a371/2024q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1851365784200614013) 2024-10-29T20:49Z 80.8K followers, 15.4K engagements "Pinterest Q3 earnings - Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $898M vs. $896M est. Net income of $30.56M MAUs up 11% to a record 537M but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 13%+ after hours "The companys net income grew a whopping 354% year over year to $30.56 million. Its total cost and expenses for the quarter were $904 million up 17% compared with $768 million the previous year." https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/07/pinterest-pins-q3-earnings-report-2024.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/07/pinterest-pins-q3-earnings-report-2024.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1854867859026956373) 2024-11-08T12:45Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "Good question from @Adoubleagent about the "URL is unknown to Google" indexing state in GSC with an interesting response from Gary. If you continually dig into the coverage reporting a lot (like I do) then you'll be interested in this. :) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenngabe_gary-illyes-i-have-a-quick-question-is-activity-7289645693202309120-7BoEutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenngabe_gary-illyes-i-have-a-quick-question-is-activity-7289645693202309120-7BoEutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1883883645481689229) 2025-01-27T14:23Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements "Some interesting reseasrch. How DeepSeek stacks up when citing news publishers - Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot sometimes hallucinates cited URLs and often admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and skirt paywalls https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/how-deepseek-stacks-up-when-citing-news-publishers/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/how-deepseek-stacks-up-when-citing-news-publishers/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1888583032862339268) 2025-02-09T13:37Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements "Google algo "volatility" in Q4 caused some problems but Reddit rebounded - Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 71% YoY to $428M vs. $405M est. and daily active uniques up 39% YoY to 101.7M vs. 103.1M est.; RDDT drops 15% after hours "A Google search algorithm change caused some volatility with user growth in the fourth quarter but Reddits search-related traffic has recovered in the first quarter Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/reddit-rddt-q4-2024.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/reddit-rddt-q4-2024.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1889834523849879655) 2025-02-13T00:30Z 76.3K followers, 17.1K engagements "Beyond top-level search visibility check out trending for AIOs and featured snippets for Reddit. AIOs are sliding for Reddit while featured snippets have seen a big drop over the past [--] months for Reddit. Very interesting. I still need to dig in further. Reddit blames Google search rankings and algorithm changes for missing user growth expectations - no joke https://t.co/ilMU4qpeJP some charts from @glenngabe https://t.co/nV8MgimSoO Reddit blames Google search rankings and algorithm changes for missing user growth expectations - no joke https://t.co/ilMU4qpeJP some charts from @glenngabe" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1890032457308864869) 2025-02-13T13:37Z 76.3K followers, [----] engagements "Focus on home services and want to track volatility of the vertical over time (including [--] categories w/in home services) @localseoguide launched SERP Summary in beta that tracks volatility SERP features top domains and winners/losers. https://serpsummary.localseoguide.com/ https://serpsummary.localseoguide.com/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1890395257411383493) 2025-02-14T13:38Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements "AI overview update. How about [--] #1 listings :) I've been seeing this more and more recently for some health and medical queries. Google is providing MANY citations for the AIO. Check out the list below for "flaxseed benefits". it contains [--] yes [--] citations. The AIO itself isn't necessarily huge when I'm seeing this happen but there are a ton of sources provided. BTW each listing would rank #1 in GSC since they take on the position of the AIO block. So yes [--] #1 listings. But a source would have to be scrolled into view in order to gain an impression (and then position)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1891119232857068011) 2025-02-16T13:35Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements "Oof - HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai Pin business will be wound down and Humane's team including its founders will join HP "Humane reportedly started looking for a buyer shortly after the launch of the AI Pin at a price as high as $1 billion a lot more than the $116 acquisition price announced today. And the AI Pin appears to have sold quite poorly with The Verge reporting in August that daily returns were outpacing sales. Humane cut the price of the Pin in October." https://www.theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisition-pin-shutdown" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1892195411718271366) 2025-02-19T12:51Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements "AIO prevalence is now 18.6% the highest we have seen it. And it keeps increasing. Stay tuned" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1892608309150023836) 2025-02-20T16:12Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements "Anthropic now with a $61.5B valuation - Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E at a $61.5B post-money valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; it has now raised $18.2B in total funding Anthropic is focused on developing AI systems that can serve as true collaborators working alongside teams to tackle complex projects synthesize information across fields and help organizations achieve outsized impact. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/anthropic-raises-3-5b-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/anthropic-raises-3-5b-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1896617215249559979) 2025-03-03T17:42Z 80.2K followers, [----] engagements "New agents - Microsoft launches new OpenAI-powered AI agents Researcher and Analyst designed to function as digital colleagues available via its Agent Store https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-just-launched-powerful-ai-agents-that-could-completely-transform-your-workday-and-challenge-googles-workplace-dominance/ https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-just-launched-powerful-ai-agents-that-could-completely-transform-your-workday-and-challenge-googles-workplace-dominance/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1915084714555183374) 2025-04-23T16:45Z 80.6K followers, [---] engagements "Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $855M vs. $847M est. Net income of $9M MAUs up 10% to 570M and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 15%+ after hours US and Canada make up 78% of global revenue. https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/Pinterest-Announces-First-Quarter-2025-Results-Delivers-16-Revenue-Growth-and-Record-Users/default.aspx" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1920807946923000220) 2025-05-09T11:47Z 80K followers, [---] engagements "I saw a notification for this yesterday while in Firefox - Firefox quietly starts testing Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/firefox-quietly-starts-testing-perplexity-ai-as-a-built-in-search-engine/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/firefox-quietly-starts-testing-perplexity-ai-as-a-built-in-search-engine/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1935019924067598413) 2025-06-17T17:01Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements "An update on ad blockers. Includes survey data based on what users find most annoying/disruptive with ads - Ad-Shield: 976M people globally use ad blockers that block on-site analytics whitelisted ads registration walls and more up from 590M in [----] 'Dark traffic' up by 49% in three years according to new study. Survey question: Which types of ads do you find the most disruptive or frustrating *51% - Video ads that play before content *20% - image ads situated over content via @CharlotteTobitt" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1946917747121614939) 2025-07-20T12:58Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements ""A Colossal Shift" but will this change as we get closer to the holiday shopping season - Amazon pulls out of Google Shopping ads Interesting catch by @mikeryanretail: "While Amazon has been cooling on Google Shopping for about a year the shift from a slow retreat to a total stop is a major inflection point Ryan added." via @TheMarketingAnu https://searchengineland.com/amazon-pulls-out-of-google-shopping-ads-459509 https://searchengineland.com/amazon-pulls-out-of-google-shopping-ads-459509" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1949434863628566636) 2025-07-27T11:41Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "Oof it has lost $70B since [----] - Meta's Reality Labs Q2: revenue up 5% YoY to $370M vs. $381M est. and a $4.53B operating loss vs. $4.99B est.; Reality Labs has lost nearly $70B since [----] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/metas-reality-labs-second-quarter-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/metas-reality-labs-second-quarter-2025.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1950886260232335693) 2025-07-31T11:48Z 80.1K followers, [---] engagements "Pinterest Q2 earnings: Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $998M vs. $975M est. 578M global MAUs vs. 574.5M est. Net income of $38.6M and earnings per share below est.; PINS down 10%+ after hours https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/Pinterest-Announces-Second-Quarter-2025-Results-Delivers-17-Revenue-Growth-and-Record-Users/default.aspx https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/Pinterest-Announces-Second-Quarter-2025-Results-Delivers-17-Revenue-Growth-and-Record-Users/default.aspx" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1953570530877137092) 2025-08-07T21:34Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "Big payday for OpenAI employees - Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell $6B in stock to Thrive Capital SoftBank and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at $500B https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/openai-6-billion-stock-500-billion-valuation.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/openai-6-billion-stock-500-billion-valuation.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1956693194982224342) 2025-08-16T12:23Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Well there you have it. It's SerpApi. Note Perplexity is also a customer of theirs - Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports "OpenAI is getting the data from SerpApi an eight-year-old web-scraping firm which listed OpenAI as a customer on its website as recently as May last year. It removed the reference for reasons that couldnt be learned." https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search-data" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1958919906637787380) 2025-08-22T15:51Z 80K followers, 14.2K engagements "Great info shared by @Marie_Haynes including Glue Google's index spam score vs. page quality PageRank RankEmbed Bert and more. New Google court docs on search index spam score PageRank page quality Glue and more https://t.co/NfqecTFGT7 thanks @Marie_Haynes https://t.co/i2vQGH4VUY New Google court docs on search index spam score PageRank page quality Glue and more https://t.co/NfqecTFGT7 thanks @Marie_Haynes https://t.co/i2vQGH4VUY" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1963575610149675174) 2025-09-04T12:11Z 80.2K followers, [----] engagements "Element: payment - Reddit Yahoo Medium Quora People O'Reilly wikiHow Ziff Davis and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping "The RSL Standard builds upon the robots.txt protocol which has long allowed publishers to provide instructions to web crawlers about what parts of their site they can and cant access. But instead of just saying yes or no to specific bots websites can now add licensing and royalty terms to their robots.txt file. They can also embed the terms in online books videos and training datasets that they may want compensation for."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1965814496544407609) 2025-09-10T16:27Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements "@lilyraynyc And all this time Google could have easily stopped the great decoupling (or at least part of it) by blocking scraping like this. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1967579492312031557) 2025-09-15T13:21Z 79.7K followers, [---] engagements "FYI crawling seems to be surging back for some sites that saw a drop around 8/22. Google fixed a problem for sites that saw a big drop around 8/8 but then more dropped on 8/22. Just a heads-up for anyone that saw crawling drop off a cliff around then. See screenshot below" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1968384668363014259) 2025-09-17T18:40Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements "It's a beast - Similarweb: TikTok had 183M US MAUs on iOS and Android in August [----] up 16% YoY vs. Instagram's 169M Facebook's 157M Pinterest's 100M and Snapchat's 70M Also: "TikToks daily active users (DAUs) grew 19% year over year to [---] million just shy of Facebooks [---] million daily users a testament to how ingrained the older social network has become for some Americans over the years. Facebook leads TikTok by a small margin on desktop and mobile web as well but the audiences there are smaller than in the apps."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1969384261384917177) 2025-09-20T12:52Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "Revealed that takedown efforts have not slowed down (after reporting stalled in April) - Google Searchs DMCA Transparency Report Resumes Adds [---] Billion Pirate URLs "As shown below as of September [--] [----] the company has received reports for [-----------] allegedly infringing URLs. This means that more than [--] billion were added over the past few months." "Over the past year rightsholders asked Google to remove five billion URLs from search results while it previously took nearly ten years to reach the same milestone." via @torrentfreak" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1970459861465915874) 2025-09-23T12:06Z 80.8K followers, [----] engagements "If @Majestic could help me find this link network in [--] minutes how quickly do you think Google could find it and devalue all links there All of those unnatural links per page are in a div set to display:none. There are hundreds of those links per page within the network. Check out visibility for the domain btw (the one in the screenshot). Zero visibility over years. Just one page indexed in Google now. Always interesting when I find things like this during audits" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1970469050892370112) 2025-09-23T12:43Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements "Big news but sounds pretty rough right now (and Google hasn't said they would follow the instructions). Also what are the robots.txt directives for this Be careful - Cloudflare Sets Up a Fight Over Googles AI Overviews Access "Cloudflare which says it powers 20% of the worlds internet traffic on Wednesday announced a new feature that it said will enable website owners to block Googles AI Overviews search product without having to opt out of being included in Google search." "In an interview Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that Cloudflare is making it easier for website publishers to update" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1970891634104479877) 2025-09-24T16:42Z 79.8K followers, 17.9K engagements "Focus on recipes food content etc. - People Inc. (formerly DotDash) acquires Feedfeed a food publisher and creator network with [----] influencer partners "People Inc. will instead be taking Feedfeed's model of leveraging a strong network of top social influencers for distribution and monetization and bringing it to other categories within the People Inc. portfolio such as beauty style travel home entertainment and possibly health and finance." https://www.axios.com/2025/10/01/people-inc-acquires-feedfeed https://www.axios.com/2025/10/01/people-inc-acquires-feedfeed" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1973726067434156208) 2025-10-02T12:25Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Google's "Try on" technology expands - Our try on tool adds shoes and will expand to new countries "In the coming weeks its expanding to Australia Canada and Japan and starting today its rolling out to a new category shoes." https://blog.google/products/shopping/virtual-try-on-shoes/ https://blog.google/products/shopping/virtual-try-on-shoes/" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1975952831044591755) 2025-10-08T15:54Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements "More Sora trouble - Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; Creative Artists Agency (CAA) says OpenAI is exposing artists to significant risk with Sora https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hollywood-talent-agency-caa-says-openais-sora-poses-risk-creators-rights-2025-10-09/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hollywood-talent-agency-caa-says-openais-sora-poses-risk-creators-rights-2025-10-09/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1976254187165094287) 2025-10-09T11:51Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "What could go wrong - It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish says Anthropic "Researchers at the US AI firm working with the UK AI Security Institute Alan Turing Institute and other academic institutions said today that it takes only [---] specially crafted documents to force a generative AI model to spit out gibberish when presented with a certain trigger phrase." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/its_trivially_easy_to_poison/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/its_trivially_easy_to_poison/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1976615653181206983) 2025-10-10T11:47Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "The AI Search platforms are just in the beginning phases. Think about the knowledge graph shopping graph GBP and more. Robby: "So there's [--] billion products in the Google shopping graph for instance. They're updated two billion times an hour by merchants with live prices right You have [---] million places and maps. You have all of the you know finance information. I mean then not not to mention you have the entire context of the web and how to connect to it so that you can get context but then go deeper and you kind of like put all of that into this brain that is effectively this way to talk" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1977711308414816723) 2025-10-13T12:21Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "Interior Design Agents - How Williams-Sonoma uses agentic AI to enhance customer experience "Using agentic AI Williams-Sonoma has developed and is in the process of developing interior design agents Hassan said. The retailers agents understand consumers preferences surrounding style and products as well as understanding their homes and spaces in a way that helps with design he said. They also walk consumers through entire process of not just choosing the right product but making sure its designed in the right way he added."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978077652444389706) 2025-10-14T12:37Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements "Wow check out the video example in the post. Damn - After auto-dubbing YouTube is toying with automatic lip-syncs "The system makes intricate pixel-level changes to modify the speakers mouth ensuring the dub looks realistic. It is powered by a custom AI built to understand the nuances of facial structure including 3D perception of the lips teeth and even different facial expressions." https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-auto-dubbing-lip-sync-videos-3606928/ https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-auto-dubbing-lip-sync-videos-3606928/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978144373389861144) 2025-10-14T17:02Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "Here come the AI Search core systems. My latest post which I've been meaning to write for a while now - AI Search and the growing importance of developing strong core visibility systems site-level quality scoring and anti-spam systems IMO there is no way the AI Search platforms like ChatGPT Perplexity Claude and others can let people game visibility while destroying user trust over time. AI Search platforms are building their own search indexes (like Perplexity's index with hundreds of billions of documents already) which means they will need to develop strong core visibility systems" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978436527362355258) 2025-10-15T12:23Z 79.7K followers, 27.8K engagements "Don't forget about Anthropic recently valued at $170B - Anthropic Gets Ready to Go Startup Shopping (it told investment bankers it's ready to acquire more companies) "The San Francisco startup could use such acquisitions to bring on more technical staff and to strengthen its capabilities beyond coding-related tasks which comprises the majority of its revenue according to people who have spoken to its executives." "Anthropic could also use acquisitions to develop products focused on specific industries such as financial services healthcare and cybersecurity according to the people who have" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978500610530939316) 2025-10-15T16:37Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "In case you missed it earlier my latest post covers how AI Search platforms like ChatGPT Perplexity Claude and others are building their own search indexes and that means they will need to develop their own core systems (including anti-spam systems). IMO there is no way that the AI Search platforms will continue to let people spam them like they are now. which could destroy user trust. My post covers all of this in detail and includes supporting tweets podcasts and videos from @lilyraynyc @thetafferboy and @randfish. You should check it out. but grab a cup of coffee first or a red bull. :)☕" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978502083759284648) 2025-10-15T16:43Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "Well that was fast - Apple executive Ke Yang who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing a ChatGPT-like AI-driven web search for Siri is leaving for Meta "Just weeks ago Yang was appointed head of a team called Answers Knowledge and Information or AKI which is central to the Siri voice assistant's overhaul planned for March the report said." https://www.reuters.com/business/apples-newly-tapped-head-chatgpt-like-ai-web-search-leave-meta-bloomberg-news-2025-10-15/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978789533966569727) 2025-10-16T11:46Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Following backlash about AI slop taking over users' feeds - Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories including beauty art and home decor "Users can now personalize their feeds to restrict GenAI imagery in select categories and the company said it will make its existing GenAI content labels more noticeable in the days to come." https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-adds-controls-to-let-you-limit-the-amount-of-ai-slop-in-your-feed/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978846779169808814) 2025-10-16T15:33Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Companies could turn into 'free middleware' for OpenAI - OpenAI is proposing a "sign in with ChatGPT" feature for websites letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits "Another potential downside is that depending on the startups business model it could hurt their revenueat least if they charged on a usage basis as the usage that is being credited to users ChatGPT accounts would be free. Essentially this model could turn companies that allow their users to sign in with ChatGPT into free middleware for OpenAI."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1978867759761994056) 2025-10-16T16:56Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "I'll use this gif since I think it's fitting :) - Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through "Ironically while generative AI and search engines are causing a decline in direct traffic to Wikipedia its data is more valuable to them than ever. Wikipedia articles are some of the most common training data for AI models and Google and other platforms have for years mined Wikipedia articles to power its Snippets and Knowledge Panels which siphon traffic away from Wikipedia itself."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979152993426501968) 2025-10-17T11:50Z 79.7K followers, 11.2K engagements "Kayak AI Mode. Yes they are calling it that. - Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights hotels and car rentals "The feature is currently available across both desktop and mobile web and takes advantage of Kayaks integration with ChatGPT to deliver contextual results." "The company suggests users could ask the chatbot for travel ideas like locations to fly to for under a certain price point the best deals to a preferred destination comparing hotel amenities finding nonstop flights and rental car options" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979154659269865578) 2025-10-17T11:56Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "Some good nuggets of information in the interview. Like this about AI-generated content what gets surfaced in AIOs how Google works to keep spam levels down there (and even how they expanded the concept of 'spam' to include low-value content). Liz: "And actually what we see on what people click on on AI Overviews is content that is richer and deeper that surface-level AI-generated content people don't want that because if they click on that they don't actually learn that much more than they previously got. They don't trust the result any more across. But so what we see with AI Overviews is" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979160175018717333) 2025-10-17T12:18Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements "Interested in agents - Anthropic's Skills for Claude which are conceptually very simple may become a bigger deal than MCP whose high token usage is its most significant limitation "Skills are conceptually extremely simple: a skill is a Markdown file telling the model how to do something optionally accompanied by extra documents and pre-written scripts that the model can run to help it accomplish the tasks described by the skill." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979163588099998102) 2025-10-17T12:32Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "My son and his friends (18) just told me recently that they are using ChatGPT much less and Gemini much more (and they love NotebookLM) - ChatGPTs mobile app is seeing slowing download growth and daily use analysis shows https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-seeing-slowing-download-growth-and-daily-use-analysis-shows/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-seeing-slowing-download-growth-and-daily-use-analysis-shows/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979229198074916892) 2025-10-17T16:53Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "AGI is still a decade away. Andrej was part of the founding team at OpenAI and previously Director of AI at Tesla. He knows a thing or two about AI - Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away why reinforcement learning is terrible superintelligence his AI education startup Eureka and more https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathyopen=false#%C2%A7agi-is-still-a-decade-away https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathyopen=false#%C2%A7agi-is-still-a-decade-away" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979526500933152935) 2025-10-18T12:34Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "Well that was an interesting project. Cookies Live On- Google Formally Ends Privacy Sandbox Initiative "Google formally ended on Friday its six-year old effort aimed at ending the use of cookies in its Chrome browser. In a blog post Google said it would retire a suite of technologies called the Privacy Sandbox that were originally designed to replace cookies. Advertisers use cookies to help track peoples Web surfing and figure out who is seeing their ads." https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979527817986732403) 2025-10-18T12:39Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Gemini [--] could be arriving this quarter - Google plans to release Gemini [--] in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board especially in coding and multimodal generation "Google targets Gemini [--] for December weighs putting more capability into the free tier and is quietly working on an integration with Apple devices" https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979529457619677685) 2025-10-18T12:46Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "What could go wrong I mean who doesn't want Facebook to 'comb through your camera roll' 🤦♂- Facebooks new button lets its AI look at photos you havent uploaded yet "Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more shareworthy. The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phones camera roll not the media youve already uploaded to Facebook. If you opt in Metas AI will comb through your camera roll upload your unpublished photos to Metas cloud and surface hidden gems that are lost among screenshots" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979531437192753341) 2025-10-18T12:54Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements "Focus on Paid Meta confirmed this - Meta Is Testing Skippable Ads on Instagram Reels Borrowing From YouTubes Playbook "A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that the company is testing the ad format adding that the limited test is designed to assess whether the format helps users discover businesses. The spokesperson added that Meta does not plan to share ad revenue with creators unlike YouTubes business." https://www.adweek.com/media/meta-is-testing-skippable-ads-on-instagram-reels-borrowing-from-youtubes-playbook/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1979899069813186915) 2025-10-19T13:14Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "AI Mode is the future of Search (as explained by Google). And we've seen Google use many ways to get people to AI Mode. and here's another. All weekend I saw a new large SERP feature labeled "Ask anything in AI Mode" with four different prompts ready to go based on my initial query. Each has the AI Mode icon next to them. Tapping each led directly to AI Mode. And this follows receiving notifications on my phone that led directly to AI Mode (as Barry covered last week). Google really wants you to use AI Mode. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980233166234267951) 2025-10-20T11:22Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Reddit rising again in ChatGPT responses (at least based on PromptWatch data). Just a heads-up. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980239642453762064) 2025-10-20T11:48Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Amazon always has to do things BIGGER. Replacing 500K jobs with robots. Whoa - Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations "Amazons automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than [------] people in the United States it would otherwise need by [----]. That would save about [--] cents on each item that Amazon picks packs and delivers to customers." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980604579403239564) 2025-10-21T11:58Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Oh boy. Adobe has a new GEO product. :) - Adobe Delivers LLM Optimizer for Businesses to Boost Visibility Across AI-Powered Chat Services and Browsers Enables companies to gain relevance and authority What - "It enables businesses to gain relevance and authority in an era where consumers are embracing generative AI-powered interfaces. With LLM Optimizer businesses have a comprehensive solution for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)" It can. (or can it really) *Optimize content and code to improve visibility: *Demonstrate business value" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980615346059940257) 2025-10-21T12:41Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Well the transition seems to be going smoothly. I'm seeing 404s on almost every product I check - Arena Group acquires ShopHQ to revive a once-major online retailer https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/20/arena-group-acquires-shophq-to-revive-a-once-major-online-retailer/ https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/20/arena-group-acquires-shophq-to-revive-a-once-major-online-retailer/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980618458891985029) 2025-10-21T12:53Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Whoa OpenAI is releasing Atlas its web browser. The browser wars rage on (AI-style):" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980680885595959422) 2025-10-21T17:01Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Yep there will be growing pains with agents - First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas as browser agents remain confusing with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks Also interesting about AIRA tags - "ChatGPT Atlas uses ARIA tags---the same labels and roles that support screen readers---to interpret page structure and interactive elements. To improve compatibility follow WAI-ARIA best practices by adding descriptive roles labels and states to interactive elements like buttons menus and forms. This helps ChatGPT recognize what each element does and interact" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980964353340739780) 2025-10-22T11:48Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "If you haven't had enough AI in other places. - Get ready for AI on the TV: Samsung has inked a deal to include Perplexity's AI engineon its latest smart TVs. And Google is putting Gemini front and center on Google TV: https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/samsung-perplexity-ai-deal-tv https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/samsung-perplexity-ai-deal-tv" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1980978306347651227) 2025-10-22T12:43Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements ""User journeys could be used in downstream applications for retrieval and ranking" - How Pinterest Identifies User Journeys (and why that's important) "A user journey is a sequence of user-item interactions often spanning multiple sessions that centers on a particular interest and reveals a clear intent such as exploring trends or making a purchase. For example a journey might involve an interest in summer dresses an intent to learn whats in style and a context of being ready to buy. Users can have multiple sometimes overlapping journeys occurring simultaneously as their interests and goals" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981044142391083242) 2025-10-22T17:05Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements "Regarding Perplexity - Perplexitys business model is effectively to take Reddits content from Google search results then feed it into an A.I. model and call it a new product the lawsuit said. Reddit said it had set a trap for Perplexity by creating a test post on its site that could only be crawled by Googles search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet. Within hours Perplexity search results had surfaced the content of that test post the lawsuit said." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981046896454955382) 2025-10-22T17:16Z 79.8K followers, 42.9K engagements "With an opt-in ad blocker. I'm sure publishers are thrilled :) - OpenAI teases a string of updates for its AI-powered browser ChatGPT Atlas Profiles coming Fry said. Tab groups and an opt-in ad blocker are also on their way in the near future." https://www.theverge.com/news/805160/openai-chatgpt-atlas-updates https://www.theverge.com/news/805160/openai-chatgpt-atlas-updates" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981333613942632850) 2025-10-23T12:15Z 79.7K followers, [---] engagements "I'll share what Sky looks like in the next tweet. It's tech will be integrated into ChatGPT. - OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others "As part of the acquisition OpenAI plans to integrate the startups technology into ChatGPT and bring on its entire team of roughly a dozen people. Financial terms were not disclosed." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/openai-acquires-ai-startup-founded-by-former-apple-employees" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981421427946340719) 2025-10-23T18:04Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Watch the video. Personal AI assistant that can combine Search with Agentic AI. Again the tech will be integrated into ChatGPT. From the site:" Sky is a natural language interface that floats over your Mac desktop so personal AI is always at your fingertips. Whether youre chatting writing planning or coding Sky understands whats on your screen and can take action using your apps." https://x.com/skybysoftware/status/1927760056122036511 https://x.com/skybysoftware/status/1927760056122036511" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981422786925981939) 2025-10-23T18:09Z 79.7K followers, [---] engagements "Sort of crazy considering Spotify paid out $10B during the same time paid. Not much more than YouTube - YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in [--] months https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981691329928470948) 2025-10-24T11:56Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Like Claude - Claude gets a memory upgrade "Will let the AI chatbot remember past conversations without prompting." https://www.theverge.com/news/804124/anthropic-claude-ai-memory-upgrade-all-subscribers https://www.theverge.com/news/804124/anthropic-claude-ai-memory-upgrade-all-subscribers" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981692070004937204) 2025-10-24T11:59Z 80K followers, [---] engagements "Ends up the mobile version had the AI label but the desktop version didn't. Google says it's a bug. Google is testing AI-generated descriptions for search result snippets WITHOUT AI-labels - Google's @rajanpatel confirms the missing label is a bug and overall this is an experiment https://t.co/fECOJCX4T6 via @brodieseo https://t.co/bdXbdw6iO0 Google is testing AI-generated descriptions for search result snippets WITHOUT AI-labels - Google's @rajanpatel confirms the missing label is a bug and overall this is an experiment https://t.co/fECOJCX4T6 via @brodieseo https://t.co/bdXbdw6iO0" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981695161219588470) 2025-10-24T12:11Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "OpenAI has launched Company Knowledge for ChatGPT Business Enterprise and Edu providing workers with direct answers from their own documents and tools. https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-launches-company-knowledge-on-chatgpt-for-business/ https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-launches-company-knowledge-on-chatgpt-for-business/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1981697769648845175) 2025-10-24T12:22Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Focus on health and medical - Google Gemini adds premade wellness Gem more "As your wellness assistant I can help you with a wide range of topics related to your physical and mental well-being. Think of me as a knowledgeable and supportive partner on your health journey." https://9to5google.com/2025/10/24/gemini-wellness-gem/ https://9to5google.com/2025/10/24/gemini-wellness-gem/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1982056819481596326) 2025-10-25T12:09Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements "Oh boy - Google Investigates Weekslong Security Breach Involving Contractor "Google is investigating a breach of its security systems involving a contractor who took almost [----] screenshots and sensitive internal files including information related to Googles Play store systems and guardrails according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The contractor sent the images to an unidentified outsider the person said." "The screenshots and documents the contractor had copied included software code information on certain developer accounts and information about how accounts are reviewed for" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1982410274226176341) 2025-10-26T11:33Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Train the AI. What could go wrong You will also have an interview with AI to quality. Oof - LinkedIn Offers Users Opportunities To Help Train Its AI Systems LinkedIn is offering members an opportunity to earn flexible skill-based income using their expertise to help companies develop high-quality human-labeled data for AI training. This initiative reflects our commitment to creating economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce. For projects related to your specific expertise (e.g. law medicine finance) LinkedIn will use your profile data such as education licenses and work" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1982414584615932030) 2025-10-26T11:50Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "User-agent referrals new users and more. Great post from Dana DiTomaso at Kickpoint - ChatGPT's Atlas and Google Analytics 4: Key points and information about tracking Atlas https://kpplaybook.com/resources/google-analytics-chatgpt-atlas/ https://kpplaybook.com/resources/google-analytics-chatgpt-atlas/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1982789489148719420) 2025-10-27T12:40Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "Grokipedia launches - Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia (with entries edited by xAI) "Grokipedia which briefly crashed after its launch Monday afternoon tallied more than [------] A.I.-generated encyclopedia entries compared with Wikipedias nearly eight million human-written ones. Visitors to the website were greeted with a bare-bones logo and a search bar that allowed them to query topics." "Jimmy Wales a Wikipedia co-founder said in an interview that he did not think A.I. could replace the sites accuracy."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983138053737611591) 2025-10-28T11:45Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "That's big for ChatGPT commerce - PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items starting in [----] (making it the first payments wallet in ChatGPT) Weve got hundreds of millions of loyal PayPal wallet holders who now will be able to click the Buy with PayPal button on ChatGPT and have a safe and secure checkout experience Chriss said in an interview." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-openai-chatgpt-payments-deal.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-openai-chatgpt-payments-deal.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983138745445392591) 2025-10-28T11:48Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Yep surged out of nowhere (which can happen.) I'm sure it will drop quickly but it's ranking in the SERPs and Discover as of now. And DO NOT click the link if you search for it. it's a dangerous site - Google promotes fake content to millions on Discover news platform https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promotes-fake-content-to-millions-on-discover-news-platform/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promotes-fake-content-to-millions-on-discover-news-platform/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983145957374996598) 2025-10-28T12:16Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "New TLD reporting in Cloudflare Radar - From .com to .anything: introducing Top-Level Domain (TLD) insights on Cloudflare Radar "The landing page and the dedicated per-TLD pages provide TLD managers and site owners with a perspective on the relative popularity of TLDs they manage or may be considering domains in as well as insights into TLD traffic volume and distribution." https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-tld-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-tld-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983151387056734675) 2025-10-28T12:38Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Adobe is leaning heavily into AI - Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express and more "First the company says it's opening up support for custom models allowing creatives to train their own AI models to create specific characters and tones." "Firefly is also getting two new generative AI features: Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech. Both do exactly as their names suggest with some specific guardrails in place." "Generate Speech is the first time Adobe has added text-to-speech" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983154306699166036) 2025-10-28T12:50Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "@patrickstox https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/ai-search-javascript-rendering/ https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/ai-search-javascript-rendering/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983183384794067055) 2025-10-28T14:45Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements "What could go wrong Oof be careful out there in AI Browser Land - ChatGPT Tainted Memories: LayerX Discovers The First Vulnerability in OpenAI Atlas Browser Allowing Injection of Malicious Instructions into ChatGPT https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/layerx-identifies-vulnerability-in-new-chatgpt-atlas-browser/ https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/layerx-identifies-vulnerability-in-new-chatgpt-atlas-browser/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983216419266236833) 2025-10-28T16:56Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Will you be the recommended search result Keep an eye on this - Firefox may soon display search results directly in the address bar "The improved search suggestions in Firefox are currently available for users in the U.S. and will roll out to more regions in the coming year." "Instead of taking the user to the results page Firefox will display the top result directly in the address bar as you type your query. Mozilla's blog highlights some examples such as checking for flight details. It displays the time of departure arrival destination the current status (on time or not) etc. without" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983217482828571072) 2025-10-28T17:01Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "It can be yours for $20K arriving in [----] - A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset available now for preorder with delivery expected in [----] "Neos creator 1X Technologies is making the Rosie-the-Robot dream: some of the first humanoid housekeepers. Starting Tuesday you can apply to its early adopter program and preorder one for $20000 with delivery expected in [----]. The company will also offer a $499 monthly rental plan with a six-month minimum commitment." "Just one hidden cost: your privacy. For now youll need to be cool with a" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983256092462186815) 2025-10-28T19:34Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "You can say that again - "To spend that much ultimately OpenAI will have to generate far more revenue." - Sam Altman: OpenAI wants to get to $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spend "In a question-and-answer session during the livestream Altman said that enterprise customers will be a big revenue driver but he also sees ways to bring in funds from consumers beyond monthly paid subscriptions." "Eventually we need to get to hundreds of billions a year in revenue and we're on a pretty steep curve towards that" Altman added." https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983257282986049828) 2025-10-28T19:39Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Another one for the OpenAI lawsuit list from @AIoriginality. Now Cameo is suing them. https://originality.ai/blog/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-list Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement alleging Sora's "cameo" feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand (@blakebrittain / Reuters) https://t.co/AKEK6k1qEm https://t.co/zHIevX2KPu 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://originality.ai/blog/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-list Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement alleging Sora's "cameo" feature is likely to cause" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983312784973804026) 2025-10-28T23:19Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Oh boy - Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit reviving old threads seeding "organic" posts and even paying third-party groups to generate content due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/ https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983502295720497155) 2025-10-29T11:52Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "OpenAI is tracking toward achieving an intern-level research assistant by September [----] and a fully automated legitimate AI researcher by [----] "Jakub Pachocki OpenAIs chief scientist joined Altman on the livestream. He described this AI researcher not to be confused with a human who researches AI as a system capable of autonomously delivering on larger research projects. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/sam-altman-says-openai-will-have-a-legitimate-ai-researcher-by-2028/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/sam-altman-says-openai-will-have-a-legitimate-ai-researcher-by-2028/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983503890235396169) 2025-10-29T11:59Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements "This is still showing. LOL. Doesn't mean it's impacting rankings (nothing changed there) but clearly a system is using that anchor text when populating sitelinks - Disney's sitelinks still showing Black hat SEO packages See the sitelinks below as of this morning and some of the links that were pointed at that page. Hard to believe Google hasn't fixed this situation yet. via @btabke https://www.searchengineworld.com/negative-and-link-based-seo-still-working-magic-in-site-links https://www.searchengineworld.com/negative-and-link-based-seo-still-working-magic-in-site-links" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983509312249983217) 2025-10-29T12:20Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "From the Google Security Blog. This will happen one year from now with Chrome [---] - HTTPS by default "One year from now with the release of Chrome [---] in October [----] we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable Always Use Secure Connections. This means Chrome will ask for the user's permission before the first access to any public site without HTTPS." "If you are a website developer or IT professional and you have users who may be impacted by this feature we very strongly recommend enabling the "Always Use Secure Connections" setting today to help identify sites that you may need" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983511455426125846) 2025-10-29T12:29Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "As a quick reminder Reddit is suing Perplexity and included three other companies in the filing including Serpapi. Here is Serpapi's statement about the lawsuit. SerpApi's statement on Reddit suing them https://t.co/oZwRVnIOKi https://t.co/4DCZuPbSAA SerpApi's statement on Reddit suing them https://t.co/oZwRVnIOKi https://t.co/4DCZuPbSAA" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983536718851834287) 2025-10-29T14:09Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "AOL has bounced around over the past few years - Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons sources say in a deal valued at $1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties "Apollo was not actively looking to sell AOL but the brand's strong performance prompted inbound interest pushing the firm to more formally evaluate potential buyers Axios reported." https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/italys-bending-spoons-acquire-aol-secures-28-bln-debt-financing-2025-10-29/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983573560787382752) 2025-10-29T16:36Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements "Google Q3 earnings coming soon - Alphabet set to report Q3 earnings after the bell Wednesday What analysts are expecting: Revenue:$99.89 billion Earnings per share:$2.33 YouTube advertising revenue:$10.01 billion Google Cloud revenue: $14.74 billion Traffic acquisition costs (TAC):$14.82 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alphabet-google-q3-earnings.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alphabet-google-q3-earnings.html" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983576240263995648) 2025-10-29T16:46Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "NotebookLM update - Chat in NotebookLM: A powerful goal-focused AI research partner "Weve significantly improved chat in NotebookLM with a 8x larger context window 6x longer conversation memory and boosting response quality by 50%. Plus anyone can now set goals in Chat to better steer responses towards their custom needs." https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-custom-personas-engine-upgrade/ https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-custom-personas-engine-upgrade/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983592620262641805) 2025-10-29T17:51Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "Good to see this on Fast Company. And it matches what my recent post outlined about the danger of spamming AI Search platforms - Heres why you dont need a magic GEO hack Great quote: "But herein lies the danger. If SEOs past is any teacher were headed toward a new playground of snake-oil and shortcuts. Soon youll see GEO specialists AI optimization gurus and zero-click quantum marketing workshops popping up. Brands will chase algorithms that nobody fully understands pay for tools that promise to place you inside the answer box and invest in techniques whose mechanics are opaque even to those" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983623358294982950) 2025-10-29T19:53Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Google Q3: $102B in revenue $34.9B in net income. YouTube with $10.2B in revenue. Total advertising revenue of $74.1B. Alphabet Announces Third Quarter [----] Results (Alphabet) https://t.co/cUQoKetv7g https://t.co/C2n3WQNASg 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM Alphabet Announces Third Quarter [----] Results (Alphabet) https://t.co/cUQoKetv7g https://t.co/C2n3WQNASg 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983627702268784644) 2025-10-29T20:11Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "YouTube is a beast - Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B vs. $10.01B est. and Google's ad revenue reached $74.18B up from $65.85B in Q3 [----] "Pichai said that in the U.S. YouTube Shorts its TikTok-like short-form video format now generates more revenue per watch hour than traditional in-stream video (although Shorts overall represents a small share of its video advertising sales)." https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-ad-sales-q3-2025-alphabet-google-earnings-1236564829/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983862825962332649) 2025-10-30T11:45Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "My latest post is for all the site owners out there getting hammered by AI tools scrapers and bots over the past several months - Stop the AI Tool and scraper madness Set up Cloudflare today and watch expensive automated traffic disappear Case Study In my post I explain how after running my blog for nearly two decades I suddenly starting getting overage notices for traffic. After digging in with Kinsta (which is awesome btw) it was clear the 'visits' were BS automated traffic from AI tools and scrapers. I explain how I set up Cloudflare on top of my Kinsta package which already used" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983873006699999248) 2025-10-30T12:25Z 79.9K followers, 12.9K engagements "@rustybrick You can say that again. The overage situation was insane based on those additional 'visits'. I knew right away that wasn't right. and that AI tools scrapers etc. were the cause. Super bot fight mode is great for handling that. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983874600304873866) 2025-10-30T12:32Z 79.9K followers, [---] engagements "Character Cameos and video stitching functionality for creating longer clips arrive - OpenAI's Sora app adds new features including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets illustrations and more clip stitching and leaderboards Once created each character comes with its own permissions separate from your personal likeness: keep it just for yourself share it with mutual followers or open it to everyone on Sora https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-cameo-updates https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-cameo-updates" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983877674582900971) 2025-10-30T12:44Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements "Wait you mean the AI Search platforms need anti-spam systems I think someone just wrote about that :) - OpenAIs new browser Atlas and Perplexity fall for AI-targeted Cloaking Attack *Agent-aware cloaking reliably changes what AI search tools read a very simplistic but powerful exploit. *We built controlled site and apps that serves different pages to regular browsers vs AI crawlers (OpenAIs Atlas ChatGPT Perplexity) and showed this can lead to context poisoning. *This opens new attack vectors. Some immediate examples include manipulation of hiring decisions product recommendations reputation" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983882598762893486) 2025-10-30T13:04Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Yep great post from Lily. Some good quotes below but definitely go and read the entire article on LinkedIn: "The truth is many brands automatically earned brand mentions and citations in LLMs by - wait for it - being among the best and most frequently cited brands in the space." "We have some clients who had already driven millions in revenue from AI search by H2 of [----]. What did they do differently for GEO (Aside from the work we have been doing with SEO for years plus all the other integrated marketing approaches they have implemented to become well-known and trusted brands) The true" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983890360938942808) 2025-10-30T13:34Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "@vsmferrari It's crazy. Massive crawling via AI tools scrapers bots etc. Cloudflare got it under control and quickly. It started only when the AI search ecosystem started. Shocking. :)" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983927422589280677) 2025-10-30T16:02Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements "Well that's interesting - Google launches Pomelli experimental Marketing AI Agent "This experiment gives users the ability to provide a URL for their business after which the agent analyzes the site extracting brand guidelines the core topic and relevant information from sections like the About page. Based on this research Pomelli organizes the collected assets and lets users review or modify them users can exclude or add materials to ensure the brand concept is accurate." https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-launches-pomelli-experimental-marketing-ai-agent/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983937513296363930) 2025-10-30T16:42Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements "ChatGPT News - Docusign is coming soon to ChatGPT "Docusign has announced that its Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform will soon be integrated directly into ChatGPT. This move brings Docusigns contract creation signing and management capabilities to users within ChatGPTs interface targeting both individual professionals and large organizations who manage a high volume of agreements." https://www.testingcatalog.com/docusign-integrates-iam-for-agreement-management-in-chatgpt/ https://www.testingcatalog.com/docusign-integrates-iam-for-agreement-management-in-chatgpt/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983938520558248344) 2025-10-30T16:46Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements "Aardvark - OpenAI launches Aardvark a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities in private beta "The agent is meant to tackle existing challenges in the software security space as tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases every year the company said in the blog post." "Our developers found real value in how clearly it explained issues and guided them to fixes. That signal told us we were on the path to something meaningful" Matt Knight VP at OpenAI told me."" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983978458691858935) 2025-10-30T19:24Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements "Pinterests new AI shopping assistant helps you pick a fit "Beginning on Thursday and over the coming weeks and months Pinterest users will be able to talk to the visual platform about what theyre shopping or searching for. The Pinterest Assistant will come back with personalized recommendations based on the users saved collections and whatever pins are currently up on their screen and briefly narrate the results." https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/809326/pinterest-ai-shopping-assistant-ceo-ready" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1983981172645310539) 2025-10-30T19:35Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "Google has rolled out several Pinterest-like tools and features recently. Mixboard is another - Google Mixboard Expands to 180+ Countries After User Surge "Users have been leveraging Mixboard's AI-powered concepting boards for party planning DIY projects and storyboarding - use cases that apparently caught even Google by surprise." "Mixboard operates as a digital canvas where users can combine their own images with AI-generated content. The platform's secret weapon is Nano Banana Google's Gemini-powered image model that handles both creation and editing tasks. Users can generate text blocks" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1984610890671407383) 2025-11-01T13:18Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "Focus on finance Heads-up. The new AI-powered Google Finance (in beta) now has a new earnings experience. Earnings call audio instant transcripts 'At a glance' which updates before during and after calls and more. Earnings season just got a major upgrade. Weve launched a brand new earnings experience in the new Google Finance Get live audio instant transcripts and AI insights right when they matter. https://t.co/gl8ic2mrAM Earnings season just got a major upgrade. Weve launched a brand new earnings experience in the new Google Finance Get live audio instant transcripts and AI insights right" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1984613313716551739) 2025-11-01T13:27Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements "More about eBay coming to ChatGPT - eBay invests in agentic AI for shopping working with OpenAI In addition to selling weve been testing a variety of agentic experiences in search and shopping to learn how buyers and sellers engage with AI at different phases of the customer journey Iannone toldinvestors. This includes both on eBay agentic experiences like our AI shopping agent pilot and third-party agents from companies like OpenAI. https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/31/ebay-agentic-ai-commerce-openai/ https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/31/ebay-agentic-ai-commerce-openai/" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1984622551184617688) 2025-11-01T14:04Z 80K followers, [----] engagements "I signed up for the Pro plan but I think most can sign up for the free plan. I primarily did this for the bot detection and automated traffic detection but there is a ton of functionality available in Cloudflare that I will look at over time. Highly recommend it especially considering the onslaught of BS crawling going on. It's insane" [X Link](https://x.com/glenngabe/status/1984624603004588511) 2025-11-01T14:12Z 79.8K followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social Influence
Social category influence technology brands stocks social networks finance countries currencies events automotive brands celebrities vc firms
Social topic influence $googl #2461, google, open ai #1831, ai, search, microsoft, youtube, meta, core, tiktok
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @rustybrick @johnmu @lilyraynyc @searchliaison @gaganghotra @mariehaynes @inspiredtaste @martinibuster @screamingfrog @aiktp_com @dannysullivan @semrush @ahrefs @joyannehawkins @mayankjee @openai @facan @jongillhams @darthna @sachupatel53124
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Reddit, Inc. (RDDT) Cloudflare, Inc. (NET) Spotify Technology (SPOT) Shopify Inc (SHOP) April (APRIL) Sora (SORA)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Work on a large-scale site You should check out my latest post about quality indexation. I provide a GSC hack that can help you better analyze various sections of a site & identify directories with high indexation & low search value. This has greatly helped me over the years. Quality indexation is an extremely important topic (esp. for large-scale sites). Here's my latest - Revisiting The SEO Importance of Quality Indexation For Large-Scale Sites: Hunting High Indexation and Low Search Value By Directory Case Study https://t.co/0HxSgKMTlL https://t.co/aeomVB2Oti Quality indexation is an"
X Link 2020-02-15T15:03Z 81K followers, [--] engagements
"Shocking ;) Glad to see more share about this - No structured data is not helping your visibility across AI Search tools You can read posts from Julio and Mark below. Another GEO tactic being pushed without data backing it. Glad Julio and Mark posted about this. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/julio-guevara_this-is-just-wrong-i-have-seen-this-advice-activity-7371443709680185345-Zpciutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAFUiYUBc529kqRUB0OhVrQtWpoW9jiP2eQ"
X Link 2025-09-12T13:04Z 81K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Ah the Google partnership still paying off big-time :) - Reddit reports Q3 revenue up 68% YoY to $585M vs. $546M est. and daily active uniques up 19% to 116M vs. 114M est.; RDDT jumps 5%+ after hours "Reddits sales jumped 68% year-over-year in the third quarter while net income was $163 million which was $133 million more than the $30 million it logged the previous year during the same period." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/reddit-rddt-q3-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/reddit-rddt-q3-2025.html"
X Link 2025-10-31T11:46Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Cool functionality but is anyone using this It's based on a custom AI model for fashion - Google Expands AI-Powered Virtual Try-On to More Regions (UK and India) "Googles latest virtual try-on models enable users to layer an image of themselves with a range of tops bottoms dresses jackets and shoes so you can get a better sense of how those items will actually look on you in real life." https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-expands-ai-powered-virtual-try-on-to-more-regions/806955/ https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/google-expands-ai-powered-virtual-try-on-to-more-regions/806955/"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:24Z 81K followers, [---] engagements
"More about Personal Intelligence. Yes I get that people will have reservations about connecting their services to Gemini but this is pretty powerful. Just two quick examples here. There are many. Hey Gemini what did I buy again when I was at Penn State in December Oh can you show me those too https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012892967418139011 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012892967418139011"
X Link 2026-01-18T14:20Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"A phenomenal post from Lily about how SEO is evolving AI Search GEO and all that happened in [----]. There are amazing points in the post that site owners c-level executives and yes AI search people should read and internalize. Covers the rise of llm visibility tracking new GEO recommendations that are not new at all (at least for SEOs) the danger of executing GEO tactics without understanding how sophisticated search systems will handle (and possibly penalize) those tactics the importance of query fan-out the increasing importance of social and Digital PR and more. Seriously go read it. You"
X Link 2026-01-20T13:25Z 81K followers, 19.8K engagements
""Googlebot sees 3.2X more web pages than OpenAI" - Google Has A Huge Edge Over OpenAI Microsoft Says Cloudflare CEO And It All Comes Down To Data: 'Whoever Has The Most.Wins' Everyone has let them behind their paywall. Everyone has let them see parts of the internet that no one else sees Prince stated." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-huge-edge-over-openai-110102636.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-huge-edge-over-openai-110102636.html"
X Link 2026-01-20T18:29Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Pay per view. OMG what does that tell you about clicks from ChatGPT Also with all the scraping going on would you pay for a view - OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers initially charging per ad view not per ad click and asks them for $1M commitments "OpenAI is asking that small pool of advertisers for less than $1 million in spending commitments each over a several week trial period with ads launching in early February the people said." "The company does not yet offer technology for advertisers to easily buy ads themselves but is working on getting self-service ads"
X Link 2026-01-21T12:48Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Confirmed - ChatGPT Checkouts to Take 4% Cut of Shopify Merchant Sales Remember Google and Bing will not take a cut. Advantage Google (again): "Merchants products will be available for purchase by default in AI checkout features that dont charge an additional fee. For now sales made through Google and Microsofts chatbot checkouts will not carry additional fees the Shopify spokesperson said." "Merchants will pay OpenAI a 4% fee on sales made through ChatGPTs checkout feature a Shopify spokesperson confirmed on top of typical transaction fees Shopify charges such as payments processing.""
X Link 2026-01-22T13:01Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep - The inability to articulate AEO/GEO from SEO. "Another reason for the anti-GEO backlash is that there is a small but loud group of pro-GEO/AEO agencies and individuals who have very little experience with SEO pushing solutions that are at best just SEO and at worst spammy tactics. Its not lost on the SEO community that some of the loudest voices are fresh out of college and have zero experience." "What contributes to the perception that AEO/GEO is not a real thing is that many proponents of AEO/GEO fail to differentiate it from standard SEO. Weve all seen it where someone tweets their"
X Link 2026-01-22T13:43Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"And Grokipedia continues to surge in Google. It jumped with the December broad core update and then another big surge around January [--]. ahrefs and Sistrix search visibility trending below"
X Link 2026-01-25T14:02Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Well isn't that interesting. "Americans have long suspected that their devices inappropriately spy on them (and then targeted them for ads)" - Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users "Smartphone users accused Google of illegally recording and disseminating private conversations after Google Assistant was triggered in order to send them targeted advertising." https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/google-settles-google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-68-million-2026-01-26/"
X Link 2026-01-27T13:06Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
""I think we just screwed that up." - Sam Altman Says OpenAI Screwed Up GPT-5.2 Writing Quality https://www.searchenginejournal.com/sam-altman-says-openai-screwed-up-gpt-5-2-writing-quality/565925/ https://www.searchenginejournal.com/sam-altman-says-openai-screwed-up-gpt-5-2-writing-quality/565925/"
X Link 2026-01-27T13:34Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Big hill to climb for Yahoo but at least there's this - "Jim Lanzone the CEO of Yahoo told me that Scout is very much close to heart with Yahoos original mission of being the trusted guide to the internet. And thus from the ground up in building Yahoo Scout Yahoo incorporated ways to honor the relationship with the open web by driving traffic downstream to the content creators." Yahoo Scout - Yahoo's return to search and web discovery https://t.co/ipUZOjtBDa https://t.co/YNN8IHeS4F Yahoo Scout - Yahoo's return to search and web discovery https://t.co/ipUZOjtBDa https://t.co/YNN8IHeS4F"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:39Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"The overwhelming feeling for the rest of today after those announcements from Google and Bing. Now back to work. :)"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:26Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Huge news. Sites may eventually be able to opt-out of generative Search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode. From Google: "Building on this framework and working with the web ecosystem we're now exploring updates to our controls to let sites specifically opt out of Search generative AI features. Our goal is to protect the helpfulness of Search for people who want information quickly while also giving websites the right tools to manage their content." BREAKING: Google is exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of AI generative search features; like AI Overviews and AI Mode"
X Link 2026-01-28T11:01Z 81K followers, 19K engagements
"It's not just college students. Companies heavily using AI to publish content are doing the same - Some US college students say they are using AI humanizer tools to alter text to avoid cheating accusations; AI detection tools now aim to catch humanizers https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/college-students-ai-cheating-detectors-humanizers-rcna253878"
X Link 2026-01-28T13:02Z 81K followers, [---] engagements
"Meta Q4 - Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B vs. $58.35B est. net income up 9% to $22.8B and family DAP up 7% to 3.58B for December "Ad impressions delivered across our Family of Apps increased by 18% and 12% year-over-year for the fourth quarter and full year [----] respectively." "Reality Labs now has nearly $80 billion in total operating losses since late 2020." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/meta-q4-earnings-report-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/meta-q4-earnings-report-2025.html"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:50Z 81K followers, [---] engagements
"Microsoft Q2 - Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $81.27B above $80.27B est. net income up 60% YoY to $38.5B and Microsoft Cloud revenue up 26% YoY to $51.5B I wish they would explain more about Search and news advertising. This is all we get each quarter. - "Search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased 10% (up 9% in constant currency)" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2026-Q2/press-release-webcast https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2026-Q2/press-release-webcast"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:53Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"LinkedIn booming - LinkedIn's Q2 revenue rose 11% YoY topping $5B for the first time giving it a $20B+ annual run rate; Satya Nadella says LinkedIn paid video ads grew 30% YoY "Remember when everyone said Microsoft overpaid for LinkedIn Nearly a decade later the $26.2 billion overpriced acquisition now generates that much in revenue every [--] months." https://www.geekwire.com/2026/linkedin-passes-5b-in-quarterly-revenue-for-the-first-time-and-its-tiktok-pivot-is-paying-off/"
X Link 2026-01-29T12:55Z 81K followers, [---] engagements
"OpenAI relies on an independent web index for this - Keeping your data safe when an AI agent clicks a link "To operationalize that we rely on an independent web index (a crawler) that discovers and records public URLs without any access to user conversations accounts or personal data. In other words it learns about the web the way a search engine does by scanning public pages rather than by seeing anything about you. Then when an agent is about to retrieve a URL automatically we check whether that URL matches a URL previously observed by the independent index.""
X Link 2026-01-29T13:10Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Of course but my point is about OpenAI building its own index and eventually not having to rely on others. :) They are clearly building that index quickly. This is just more evidence of that. Google's anti-spam systems are going to be 100000X more powerful than OpenAI's at this point. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016865492665811216 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016865492665811216"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:26Z 81K followers, [---] engagements
"Meta's version of Personal Intelligence (Both Google and Meta have a big advantage here) - Zuckerberg Shares Vision of an AI-Powered Future (with personalization based on everything Meta knows about you) "Metas big advantage on this front according to Zuck is its vast knowledge base which already knows all about you. Indeed previous research has shown that Facebook data based on your demographic profile interests engagement etc. can create a highly accurate psychological profile of each user." This also has implications for commerce. Our ads today help businesses find just the right very"
X Link 2026-01-29T13:31Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Auto Browse in Chrome arrived this morning. It wasn't active yesterday even when the new Gemini sidebar showed up. Auto Browse works with any Gemini model btw. So I gave my new agent a task and asked it to check some of the Google volatility tools collect today's numbers and then present that to me in a table. Took 1:29 and worked pretty well. Amazing to watch it correct itself during the process like loading urls that were 404s then checking the site and finding the right ones. You'll notice that it simply took the Germany reading for Sistrix but in other tests I ran it did change that to"
X Link 2026-01-29T19:09Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Here comes the IPO - OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an IPO in Q4 [----] and its executives have privately expressed concerns about Anthropic beating OpenAI to an IPO "The $500 billion startup is holding informal talks with Wall Street banks about a potential initial public offering people familiar with the matter said and is growing its finance team." "Pulling off a successful public listing by years end is likely to be difficult for the ChatGPT maker which is still confronting the challenges of a fast-growing startup. The company recently has made changes to leadership ranks and is"
X Link 2026-01-30T12:49Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"More AI lawsuits this time Anthropic. And there is precedent now (Anthropic lost a previous case with authors) - Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over flagrant piracy of [-----] works "A cohort of music publishers led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group are suing Anthropic saying the company illegally downloaded more than [-----] copyrighted songs including sheet music song lyrics and musical compositions" https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/music-publishers-sue-anthropic-for-3b-over-flagrant-piracy-of-20000-works/"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:05Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Whoa - Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9% https://www.reuters.com/business/videogame-stocks-slide-googles-ai-model-that-turns-prompts-into-playable-worlds-2026-01-30/ https://www.reuters.com/business/videogame-stocks-slide-googles-ai-model-that-turns-prompts-into-playable-worlds-2026-01-30/"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:17Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"Ads are close. There's a new announcement window in the code. And there will be [--] ad formats to start - OpenAI prepares ads for a broader rollout on ChatGPT "OpenAI is advancing towards launching ads in ChatGPT across both web and mobile targeting a broader user base. A new announcement window has appeared in the application code although it is not yet live for users." "The pop-up details several assurances including that ads will not influence model outputs and responses should remain trustworthy. All ads will be distinctly marked to differentiate them from regular responses." "Users will"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:39Z 81K followers, [----] engagements
"@suganthan I mean seriously can you say scaled content abuse Remember my "Mt. AI" tweet from last week I can see many Mt. AIs if that goes on. :) https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013974465521037563 I think I'll coin this "Mt. AI". Yet another example of a site publishing a ton of AI-generated content that surged. and ultimately came crashing down. I'm sure the site owners were saying "AI content is amazing Look at our trending" . until the crash happened. And that https://t.co/DfWslqThrd https://x.com/glenngabe/status/2013974465521037563 I think I'll coin this "Mt. AI". Yet another example of"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:51Z 81K followers, [---] engagements
"Your PageSpeed Insights scores might go up as of 3/3/21 - "PageSpeed Insights now uses http/2 to make network requests if the server supports it. Previously all requests were made with http/1.1." h/t @tldrMarketing https://glennga.be/3qjgEuH https://glennga.be/3qjgEuH"
X Link 2021-03-05T13:26Z 81.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Gemini is catching up - Source: ChatGPT has nearly 900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini's MAUs grew 30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose 5% to 810M "Geminis growth is also evident on the web. Between August and November Geminis global website visits doubled while ChatGPTs rose about 1% over the same period according to the Sensor Tower data. Monthly active users tell a similar story during the period: Geminis increased roughly 30% to [---] million while ChatGPTs rose about 5% to [---] million.""
X Link 2025-12-09T17:16Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"YouTube needs to get that under control - A Kapwing study of the [-----] top YouTube channels finds [---] of them have only posted AI-generated "slop" videos amassing 63B+ views and 221M+ subscribers From Kapwing: "We identified the top [---] trending YouTube channels in every country and noted the AI slop channels. Next we used to retrieve the number of views subscribers and estimated yearly revenue for these channels and aggregated these figures for each country to deduce their popularity. We also created a new YouTube account to record the number of AI slop and brainrot videos among the first"
X Link 2025-12-29T13:38Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Gemini-powered Siri next month - A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC "By August negotiations with Anthropic had stalled. The startup was seeking several billion dollars annually over multiple years terms that werent favorable to Apple. And partnering with OpenAI posed its own problems: That company was actively poaching Apple engineers and pursuing its own hardware ambitions under former Apple designer Jony Ive an obvious strategic conflict. That left Google." And later"
X Link 2026-01-26T12:50Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I was thinking about this the other day. Does anyone care about Sora anymore - OpenAIs Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch "New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off." "OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment." https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggling-after-its-stellar-launch/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggling-after-its-stellar-launch/"
X Link 2026-01-29T17:09Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh boy watch those Chrome extensions - Malicious Chrome Extensions Perform Hidden Affiliate Hijacking. [--] extensions to be exact. "Socket's Threat Research Team identified a malicious Chrome extension Amazon Ads Blocker that markets itself as a tool to hide sponsored content on Amazon. The extension does block ads as advertised but its primary function is hidden: it automatically injects the developer's affiliate tag (10xprofit-20) into every Amazon product link and replaces existing affiliate codes from content creators.""
X Link 2026-02-03T13:39Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Ouch - Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new AI developments will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31% CRM fell 6.85% and Thomson Reuters 15.83% If things are advancing as rapidly as we hear from OpenAI and Anthropic its going to be a problem. Investors are starting to go after any of the companies that could be disrupted which is all kinds of software application names https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/software-slump-drags-down-private-fund-managers-6f840d0cst=A1ZFc5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink"
X Link 2026-02-04T12:50Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Oooh burn :) - Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad Remember that OpenAI commercial with the guy doing pull-ups "The 30-second Anthropic spot features a young man in a park attempting pull-ups who asks a muscular bystander about achieving six-pack abs. The man starts with a detailed if somewhat robotic responselike users might get from an AI chatbotbefore spewing out an ad for StepBoost Max insoles.""
X Link 2026-02-04T12:52Z 81.2K followers, 11K engagements
"I'm sure Google is watching closely - Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity "Weekly active users for search over the past year grew 30% from [--] million users to [--] million users. Meanwhile the weekly active users for the AI-powered Reddit Answers grew from [--] million in the first quarter of [----] to [--] million by the fourth quarter." "Reddit suggested on Thursday that its AI-powered search engine could be the next big opportunity for its business not just in terms of product but also as a revenue driver impacting its bottom line." "During the companys fourth-quarter earnings"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:36Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Meta looks to up its agent game based on its recent Manus acquisition. Oh and a shopping assistant could be coming too - Meta AI redies Avacado Manus Agent and OpenClaw integration "That suggests Manus-style agents could come directly to Meta AI. There is also a new menu in development called Tasks where users would be able to schedule recurring executions of Meta AI similar to scheduled prompts in other tools. In other words scheduled tasks seem to be on the roadmap letting users run prompts recurrently. Code traces also suggest they are working on voice agent support." "Referencing the"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:06Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I still can't reproduce this but I really hope it rolls out widely. Hover over link icons in AIOs and see more info and thumbnails. Anything that helps users see the sources of that content with the ability to click through would be great. Google AI Overviews with link card overlay boxes being tested https://t.co/c6Vn9bFTZb via @harpreetchatha_ @SachuPatel53124 @gaganghotra_ https://t.co/FblSRXFvTZ Google AI Overviews with link card overlay boxes being tested https://t.co/c6Vn9bFTZb via @harpreetchatha_ @SachuPatel53124 @gaganghotra_ https://t.co/FblSRXFvTZ"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:13Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"There were some very interesting nuggets from Reddit's earnings call. Barry covered the part about citations in LLMs and what Reddit would like to see there but there were also several other important points. I shared a thread yesterday with that info which Barry covers as well. For example there was a part about brands/companies understanding that Reddit can yield visibility in Google and LLMs like ChatGPT Gemini etc. And some are renaming their social team to the "Reddit team": "Regarding companies understanding that Reddit threads rank in AI Search well: "Reddit customers"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:21Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Going through more of the recent volatility and some of the drops are huge. Really looks like 1/27 was a big date. Seeing a ton of volatility right around then. Some examples below. I'm also seeing some sites reverse course from the December core update. I'll share a few screenshots next"
X Link 2026-02-09T13:59Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@MarketingOClock @MenachemAni Hey thanks for covering my post about Personal Intelligence And I love the idea of @inspiredtaste cooking those dishes via the Frankenstein recipes from Gemini or AI Mode. Would be a great video. and one I think Google should watch closely. :)"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:13Z 81.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Here we go. Will be interesting to follow :) - "Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you. Answers are optimized based on whats most helpful to you. When you see an ad they are always clearly labeled as sponsored and visually separated from the organic answer." Were starting to roll out a test for ads in ChatGPT today to a subset of free and Go users in the U.S. Ads do not influence ChatGPTs answers. Ads are labeled as sponsored and visually separate from the response. Our goal is to give everyone access to ChatGPT for free with https://t.co/S9BV24uJLb Were starting to roll out a"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:16Z 81.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Focus on Local Heads up - Review Posting Blocks Are Surging. Heres the Data Plus the Patterns Behind Them "A review block is when Google temporarily restricts a Google Business Profile from receiving new reviews (commonly [--] days) typically paired with messaging about suspicious high-rated reviews. via @ClaudiaTomina on @SterlingSkyInc https://www.sterlingsky.ca/review-posting-blocks-are-surging-heres-the-data-plus-the-patterns-behind-them/ https://www.sterlingsky.ca/review-posting-blocks-are-surging-heres-the-data-plus-the-patterns-behind-them/"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:24Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@MenachemAni It's almost like building a shopping graph containing 50B+ products is hard. LOL"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:37Z 81.3K followers, [--] engagements
"Google's 'Results about you' tool expands to protect your social security number passport info and driver's license. But you have to give Google that info first. Interesting dilemma :) "Click Get started and add the personal contact information you want to monitor. Youll then be prompted to add your government ID numbers. If youre already using the tool simply click to add your ID numbers and input the ones youd like to monitor. To keep your sensitive information safe Results about you employs Googles rigorous security protocols and advanced encryption to prevent misuse and ensure your"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:01Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Need to check this out in greater detail soon - OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2 a full-screen report view and an option to focus research on specific websites "The search progress can also be tracked in real time interrupted with questions or supplemented with new sources. Results can now be displayed as full-screen reports." https://the-decoder.com/openais-deep-research-now-runs-on-gpt-5-2-and-lets-users-search-specific-websites/ https://the-decoder.com/openais-deep-research-now-runs-on-gpt-5-2-and-lets-users-search-specific-websites/"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:49Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Local Feed - TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel news events shopping and dining near the user's current location after changing its ToS "The new feature also ties into TikToks push to attract small businesses to its app not only as content producers but as advertisers." "Today TikTok confirms the reason its now asking for more accurate location information is to help power the Local Feed. However it notes that users will be able to control whether or not precise location sharing is on and the default will be set to off making this an opt-in experience.""
X Link 2026-02-11T17:46Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Apple is so bad at AI. it's not even funny at this point - Apples Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs Into Snags "But testing uncovered fresh problems with the software prompting the latest postponements said the people who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private. Siri doesnt always properly process queries or can take too long to handle requests they said." "Another challenge: The new Siri sometimes falls back on its existing integration with OpenAIs ChatGPT instead of using Apples own technology. That can happen even when Siri should be capable of handling"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:24Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Focus on Health and Medical Heads-up. But. will users add medical conditions family medical history and more - Perplexity tests Health page with Apple Health integration "The upcoming Health tab is expected to appear as a dedicated module within the main navigation providing users with streamlined access to health-related tools and information. This approach follows the pattern established in other verticals where users can easily switch between specialized modules via the top navigation bar." "The Health module is designed to collect user-specific details through a profile system. In this"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:03Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"@inspiredtaste @gregfinn Amazing. I wanted to hear more about the Frankenstein recipe though Like how was it what was the difference taste-wise texture-wise etc. You preferred yours which makes total sense but was the Frankenstein recipe really bad or close"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:17Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Could be a $111B quarter - Alphabet to report earnings after the bell: AI ad momentum key to the fourth quarter Here's what analysts are expecting: Revenue of $111.43B YouTube Advertising $11.84B TAC $16.20B Earnings per share $2.63 Also "Wall Street will be looking for more details Googles deal to revamp Apples Siri virtual assistant with the search companys Gemini AI models." https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/alphabet-googl-q4-2025-earnings.html https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019106126944493605 https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/alphabet-googl-q4-2025-earnings.html"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:49Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Gemini Rising - Google says the Gemini app has 750M+ MAUs up from 650M last quarter and its first-party models process 10B+ tokens per minute via direct API use by customers https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has-surpassed-750m-monthly-active-users/ https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/04/googles-gemini-app-has-surpassed-750m-monthly-active-users/"
X Link 2026-02-05T12:51Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"I can't see this yet but AI Mode history is appearing for Damien via his testing in the Google Search App. Yet another way to drive more AI Mode queries. :) A new button has appeared at the top of the Google app before the Discover feed where the Google Labs button used to be. This button now directly opens the AI Mode search history. #googlediscover CC @gaganghotra_ @rustybrick https://t.co/AEqN0l9kEd A new button has appeared at the top of the Google app before the Discover feed where the Google Labs button used to be. This button now directly opens the AI Mode search history."
X Link 2026-02-11T19:15Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"So how long before Reddit tanks in Google and then AI search engines like chatgpt perplexity and others based on the AI spam being posted there - AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone Its probably more prevalent than anybody wants to really admit because its just so easy to shove your post into ChatGPT and say Hey make this more exciting says Cassie who thinks as much as half of all content being posted to Reddit may have been created or reworked with AI in some way." Reddit itself is either going to have to do something or the snake is going to swallow its own tail she says. Its getting to"
X Link 2025-12-06T18:52Z 81.3K followers, 26.9K engagements
"Good Morning Google Land This is the February 4th edition of "Reviews Update Notes". Hey it doesn't roll like "Core Update Notes" but it fits. :) Also at least I think it was a reviews update. Google stopped announcing reviews updates a while ago since the system is now "improved at a regular and ongoing pace". But Google said they might announce one if there were significant changes to the system. Well I think that may be the case based on what I'm seeing (and what @lilyraynyc wrote about yesterday). The impact from that latest unconfirmed update has been huge. And yes it expands beyond"
X Link 2026-02-04T13:31Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Some key quotes from Reddit's Q4 earnings call about Search AI content citations in ChatGPT AIOs and others and more. Regarding Reddit Search vs Reddit Answers (its AI Search): "And then on search we did bring the search bars together for the most part. So you're on the search bar you can you can go into ask and then if you run a traditional search we'll often pop an answer there. I believe we're up from [--] million users per week a year ago to [--] million users now per week. And then we're up from [--] million to [--] million overall users (including traditional search). And we're going to continue"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:45Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Spotify Q4. Still a beast - Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to 4.5B Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M and a 701M operating income above 639.1M est. And $11B paid out to the music industry https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-10/spotify-q4-2025-earnings/ https://newsroom.spotify.com/2026-02-10/spotify-q4-2025-earnings/"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:50Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Cloudflare Q4 - Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M above $591.3M est. a net loss of $12.1M but forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14%+ pre-market https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-nyse-net-exceeds-q4-212653680.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cloudflare-nyse-net-exceeds-q4-212653680.html"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:52Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Here we go It's rolling out now - Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini "In fact UCP-powered checkout is rolling out now letting US shoppers buy items from Etsy and Wayfair right in AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app (with Shopify Target and Walmart coming soon)." https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/digital-advertising-commerce-2026/ https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/digital-advertising-commerce-2026/"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:36Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh boy will your personal agent (AKA Jarvis) manage your social media relationships - OpenAI's Fidji Simo on ads in ChatGPT and ending the Code Red "An AI agent social network: When we asked about social networking ambitions beyond Sora Simo went somewhere unexpected: What happens to social relationships in a world where everybody has their own personal agents And how can these personal agents help you manage your social relationships in a better way She framed it not as agents aimlessly talking to agents like Moltbook but as AI mediating existing human relationships. We havent cracked what"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:43Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Distillation Attacks - Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by commercially motivated actors who are trying to clone it including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times "In a report published Thursday Google said it has increasingly come under distillation attacks or repeated questions designed to get a chatbot to reveal its inner workings." https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-gemini-hit-100000-prompts-cloning-attempt-rcna258657 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/google-gemini-hit-100000-prompts-cloning-attempt-rcna258657"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:48Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
""There are just so many things it is trying to keep up with." Also doesn't sound like an IPO is happening this year. - OpenAIs Biggest Challenge Is Turning Its A.I. Into a Cash Machine "Hoping to triple its revenue this year OpenAI must do many things that it has little or no experience doing. It had never before served ads which could undermine the value of its chatbot or worse alienate users. It plans to make even more money by selling technology to businesses even as a long list of rivals compete for the same dollars." "Google has been selling to businesses for decades. So has Microsoft."
X Link 2026-02-12T12:54Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Heads-up yet another example of the ad side of Google not on the same page as the organic side. There's a new trigger for when users clicks the back button in their browser. Oof. You will be automatically opted-in unless you opt-out before 3/9/26 - Google AdSense Adds New Triggers For Vignette Ads New trigger: "Navigates backward using their browser's back button on supported browsers (currently Chrome Edge and Opera)." "You have the option to opt out but if you take no action during the review period the new triggers will automatically activate on March [--] 2026.""
X Link 2026-02-12T13:11Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Retargeting for AI Search - Retargeting Has Found Its Way to the Chatbots "The technology is less a quantum leap forward in advertising technology than it is the latest in a series of incremental gains." "Publishers already know the referral source of their traffic according to Index Exchange chief customer officer Marybeth McGaugh. By combining the referral source (ChatGPT for example) with the specific webpage they landed on (Best Family Friendly SUVs Under $40000) the publisher will be able to determine what the user had searched for in the answer engine. Working backward from that"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:42Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Yep I see it in Canary (see below). Chrome is a natural fit as the beginning stages of Jarvis. So Google enabling users to automatically start Chrome when Windows boots up is smart - Chrome can now launch when you boot up your Windows PC "Youre basically treating your browser like part of your operating systems startup routine similar to what youd do with Slack or other work tools. Chromes been adding more features lately to make the browser do more for you so this fits that pattern." https://phandroid.com/2026/02/12/chrome-can-now-launch-when-you-boot-up-your-windows-pc/"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:53Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep Claude Code is pretty amazing - Spotify says AI is helping it speed up coding and product velocity and its best developers "have not written a single line of code since December" "At Spotify engineers are using an internal system called Honk to speed up coding and product velocity the company told analysts on the call. This system allows for things like remote real-time code deployment using generative AI and specifically Claude Code." https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:07Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Me and I think everyone else waiting to see an actual ad in ChatGPT. I can't trigger one across free accounts yet. And yeah I've been trying. :)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:34Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"@Tomiiks Last numbers reported were 810M MAUs for ChatGPT"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:07Z 81.3K followers, [--] engagements
"This is a big deal. Agents can bypass the UI via WebMCP - Chrome Team announces WebMCP is available for early preview "As the agentic web evolves we want to help websites play an active role in how AI agents interact with them. WebMCP aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools ensuring AI agents can perform actions on your side with increased speed reliability and precision." "By defining these tools you tell agents how and where to interact with your site whether it's booking a flight filing a support ticket or navigating complex data. This direct communication channel"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:51Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Claude news. This is all moving incredibly fast - Anthropic prepares Claude Tasks on mobile for browser automation "Anthropic is testing a Tasks feature in Claudes mobile apps bringing Cowork-style automation repeatable actions and possible browser tasks soon." "The strings also hint at broader capabilities attached to Tasks including the ability for Claude to operate a browser as part of execution. On mobile that would imply a workflow where a task can open pages gather information and complete steps in sequence without the user manually driving every tap.""
X Link 2026-02-12T13:02Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Big news The CIA World Factbook is sunsetting. If you remember it was one of the key sources fueling Google's Knowledge Graph in the beginning. Now the Knowledge Graph is way more robust but Wikipedia and The CIA World Factbook were cited by Google as important sources. There are over 7K urls indexed there (for now) but they all redirect to a message about The Factbook shutting down. There are close to 700K inbound links from 20K referring sites. Anyway it's the end of an era. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021939225495544221 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021939225495544221"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:27Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep Minority Report-like functionality. Spielberg hired futurists when directing the movie. Now Meta is trying to make that a reality. Again we are approaching Jarvis - Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as [----] and considers letting the glasses identify people with public Meta accounts "The feature internally called Name Tag would let wearers of smart glasses identify people and get information about them via Metas artificial intelligence assistant.""
X Link 2026-02-13T12:43Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Pinterest Q4: A miss (both top and bottom) and the stock tanked - Pinterest reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.32B vs. $1.33B est. Net income of $277M MAUs up 12% to 619M and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; PINS drops 17%+ after hours "Ready told analysts on Thursday that the company is not satisfied with our Q4 revenue performance and believe it does not reflect what Pinterest can deliver over time. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/pinterest-pins-q4-earnings-report-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/pinterest-pins-q4-earnings-report-2025.html"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:48Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"More audio overviews this time in Google Docs - Google Docs rolling out Gemini-powered audio summaries "Powered by Gemini these summaries provide a short verbal synopsis of the contents in your document including multiple tabs. They are typically under a few minutes long and use a natural speaking style to help you catch up quickly and efficiently." https://9to5google.com/2026/02/12/google-docs-audio-summaries/ https://9to5google.com/2026/02/12/google-docs-audio-summaries/"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:58Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Still the only ChatGPT ad I could find as of this morning. and it's in Google. :) And I'm trying to find one. OK I found a ChatGPT ad . on Google. 🤦♂🤣 https://t.co/F6G3eqv15q OK I found a ChatGPT ad . on Google. 🤦♂🤣 https://t.co/F6G3eqv15q"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:09Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Like I've said before ChatGPT will continue to build stronger systems to fight spam security risks and more - Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT *Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT an advanced optional security setting for higher-risk users *Elevated Risk labels for certain capabilities in ChatGPT ChatGPT Atlas and Codex that may introduce additional risk https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt/ https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt/"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:33Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"What We are entering strange times - A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection and the aftermath "Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing"
X Link 2026-02-14T13:25Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"A quick update on Reddit's AI translation project. I have covered this heavily via a two-part series in the past. Google explained that scaling via AI translations is ok IF the content is high quality. That's the nuance that's tough for many site owners. i.e. Is the content high quality enough to translate via AI Again sites have received manual actions in the past for scaling via automated translations so it was interesting to see Reddit surge like made by using AI to translate content at scale. Well Reddit continues to scale those translations and you can see huge growth over time across"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:01Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"And here is Spain and Italy when filtering by the AI translated content. Again Reddit is using AI to translate content at scale across a number of languages. My two-part series about this cover that in detail. Anyway it's still working for Reddit and working well. So for large-scale sites out there thinking about scaling via AI translations it comes down to quality. If you scale high-quality content it could be fine (according to Google) but if you scale heavily and it's not high quality according to Google's systems it won't be fine (and could yield manual actions or dropping heavily via an"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:05Z 81.3K followers, [---] engagements
"Nice I see the list is updated with the Cumulative Layout Shift Debugger from @filiwiese. If you're looking for a list of tools to measure Core Web Vitals Olga has you covered. SEO folks I have compiled the list of tools to measure Core Web Vitals. I came up with [--] tools. Let me know if there are any tools I could add to the list. Thanks https://t.co/BzW78aV6hL SEO folks I have compiled the list of tools to measure Core Web Vitals. I came up with [--] tools. Let me know if there are any tools I could add to the list. Thanks https://t.co/BzW78aV6hL"
X Link 2021-05-03T18:46Z 81K followers, [--] engagements
"Via @johnmu: The June & July broad core updates were separate & unique updates. Just because they are both core updates doesn't mean they affect the same core parts of the ranking system. This is why you could see changes during one but not the other: https://glennga.be/2VwRor6 https://glennga.be/2VwRor6"
X Link 2021-08-06T12:53Z 79.9K followers, [--] engagements
"And for the current situation with the HCU & LSU from Danny on Mastodon: "Its not that the update is longer to rollout. Its that as I understand we tend to pause things during holiday periods. So the rollout pauses then resumes and the live time is around the same." Google confirms that longer algorithm updates aren't necessarily more intense updates https://t.co/kys9OH55IA via @johnmu answering @ConorMc_1 https://t.co/7ZhJczCVGk Google confirms that longer algorithm updates aren't necessarily more intense updates https://t.co/kys9OH55IA via @johnmu answering @ConorMc_1 https://t.co/7ZhJczCVGk"
X Link 2023-01-11T13:04Z 80.8K followers, [----] engagements
"More about OpenAI - OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional a premium version of its viral chatbot "Benefits include no blackout (i.e. unavailability) windows no throttling & an unlimited number of messages w/ChatGPT." via @TrishCarey on Mastodon https://glennga.be/3isUhVR https://glennga.be/3isUhVR"
X Link 2023-01-11T14:38Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements
"It was great to chat with Barry in Princeton about several important topics This is part one covering AI content Bing Chat Bard publisher impact citations and more. There are several more videos that will be released but you can check out part one today. :) I got @glenngabe on my vlog to chat about Bing Chat Google Bard AI-generated content - this is part one of four - watch it at https://t.co/qrEYSKmb1Y I got @glenngabe on my vlog to chat about Bing Chat Google Bard AI-generated content - this is part one of four - watch it at https://t.co/qrEYSKmb1Y"
X Link 2023-05-01T12:08Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements
"I told you the data was wonky/wrong. :) Statcounter has corrected the search engine market share numbers for April. Google is now at 91% globally and 95% for mobile. So enough with Bing taking huge market share from Google. all in one month's time. That was ridiculous. Here are screenshots for total market share first then mobile. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786713692043706387 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1786713692043706387"
X Link 2024-05-04T11:05Z 80.8K followers, 21.9K engagements
"If you're interested in the March core update and the powerful tremors we have seen since it completed then you should check out my latest case study. I cover a site that got hammered in the fall of [----] by two core updates and the September HCU(X) addressed a big content problem and then started surging back with the March core update. But then several tremors came along. and the site dropped and surged four separate times. It's been fascinating to analyze. and I had to write the case study. My post contains all of the details. Get a cup of coffee first (or three). It's a beast. :) You might"
X Link 2024-05-29T17:01Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Thanks Jim. Glad you found my post interesting. And regarding "staying in your lane" it's totally fine to focus on small business as a personal finance site If you feel you can do that based on your experience (or that of your writers) then totally fine. I'm referring to going way out of your lane. e.g. If you wrote about yoga supplements or the best french toast recipes then I'd say you need to get back into your lane. :)"
X Link 2024-05-29T17:44Z 80.9K followers, [---] engagements
"AI news - Google has agreed to pay a licensing fee to chatbot maker for its models and will hire its cofounders and many of its researchers "Characters employees working on model training and voice artificial intelligenceabout [--] of its roughly [---] stafferswill join Google to work on its Gemini AI efforts. Meanwhile Character will switch to open-source models such as Meta Platforms Llama [---] to power its products rather than its in-house models they said." "Characters leaders told staff on Friday that investors would be bought out at a valuation of about $88 per share. Thats about [---] times"
X Link 2024-08-02T20:01Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Your blog posts and/or articles should meet or exceed user expectations based on query. They don't need a certain word count or a link count. i.e. Understand what your audience needs help with wants to learn etc. and then publish a killer post about that. Don't go nuts doing keyword research writing to a specific word count and definitely don't think there needs to be some magical number of internal links and outbound links. Google's @JohnMu says Google does not count links or words on your blog posts https://t.co/sgCpewrzc2 https://t.co/OOkSzOoqhh Google's @JohnMu says Google does not"
X Link 2024-08-29T12:05Z 80.9K followers, 14.4K engagements
"@Sebastian121461 Nope drop right on 9/18. I'm keenly aware of many who think they were hit by hcux but it was core. This was hcux"
X Link 2024-10-03T13:01Z 80.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Here we go - Alphabet reports Q3 revenue up 15% YoY to $88.27B Search revenue up 12% to $49.39B net income up 34% to $26.3B and traffic acquisition costs up 9% to $13.72B https://abc.xyz/assets/71/a5/78197a7540c987f13d247728a371/2024q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf https://abc.xyz/assets/71/a5/78197a7540c987f13d247728a371/2024q3-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf"
X Link 2024-10-29T20:49Z 80.8K followers, 15.4K engagements
"Pinterest Q3 earnings - Pinterest reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $898M vs. $896M est. Net income of $30.56M MAUs up 11% to a record 537M but forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; PINS drops 13%+ after hours "The companys net income grew a whopping 354% year over year to $30.56 million. Its total cost and expenses for the quarter were $904 million up 17% compared with $768 million the previous year." https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/07/pinterest-pins-q3-earnings-report-2024.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/07/pinterest-pins-q3-earnings-report-2024.html"
X Link 2024-11-08T12:45Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"Good question from @Adoubleagent about the "URL is unknown to Google" indexing state in GSC with an interesting response from Gary. If you continually dig into the coverage reporting a lot (like I do) then you'll be interested in this. :) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenngabe_gary-illyes-i-have-a-quick-question-is-activity-7289645693202309120-7BoEutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenngabe_gary-illyes-i-have-a-quick-question-is-activity-7289645693202309120-7BoEutm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop"
X Link 2025-01-27T14:23Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Some interesting reseasrch. How DeepSeek stacks up when citing news publishers - Tests show DeepSeek's chatbot sometimes hallucinates cited URLs and often admits that sharing news articles' content could violate copyright and skirt paywalls https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/how-deepseek-stacks-up-when-citing-news-publishers/ https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/how-deepseek-stacks-up-when-citing-news-publishers/"
X Link 2025-02-09T13:37Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Google algo "volatility" in Q4 caused some problems but Reddit rebounded - Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 71% YoY to $428M vs. $405M est. and daily active uniques up 39% YoY to 101.7M vs. 103.1M est.; RDDT drops 15% after hours "A Google search algorithm change caused some volatility with user growth in the fourth quarter but Reddits search-related traffic has recovered in the first quarter Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/reddit-rddt-q4-2024.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/reddit-rddt-q4-2024.html"
X Link 2025-02-13T00:30Z 76.3K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Beyond top-level search visibility check out trending for AIOs and featured snippets for Reddit. AIOs are sliding for Reddit while featured snippets have seen a big drop over the past [--] months for Reddit. Very interesting. I still need to dig in further. Reddit blames Google search rankings and algorithm changes for missing user growth expectations - no joke https://t.co/ilMU4qpeJP some charts from @glenngabe https://t.co/nV8MgimSoO Reddit blames Google search rankings and algorithm changes for missing user growth expectations - no joke https://t.co/ilMU4qpeJP some charts from @glenngabe"
X Link 2025-02-13T13:37Z 76.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Focus on home services and want to track volatility of the vertical over time (including [--] categories w/in home services) @localseoguide launched SERP Summary in beta that tracks volatility SERP features top domains and winners/losers. https://serpsummary.localseoguide.com/ https://serpsummary.localseoguide.com/"
X Link 2025-02-14T13:38Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements
"AI overview update. How about [--] #1 listings :) I've been seeing this more and more recently for some health and medical queries. Google is providing MANY citations for the AIO. Check out the list below for "flaxseed benefits". it contains [--] yes [--] citations. The AIO itself isn't necessarily huge when I'm seeing this happen but there are a ton of sources provided. BTW each listing would rank #1 in GSC since they take on the position of the AIO block. So yes [--] #1 listings. But a source would have to be scrolled into view in order to gain an impression (and then position)"
X Link 2025-02-16T13:35Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Oof - HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai Pin business will be wound down and Humane's team including its founders will join HP "Humane reportedly started looking for a buyer shortly after the launch of the AI Pin at a price as high as $1 billion a lot more than the $116 acquisition price announced today. And the AI Pin appears to have sold quite poorly with The Verge reporting in August that daily returns were outpacing sales. Humane cut the price of the Pin in October." https://www.theverge.com/news/614883/humane-ai-hp-acquisition-pin-shutdown"
X Link 2025-02-19T12:51Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements
"AIO prevalence is now 18.6% the highest we have seen it. And it keeps increasing. Stay tuned"
X Link 2025-02-20T16:12Z 76.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Anthropic now with a $61.5B valuation - Anthropic raised a $3.5B Series E at a $61.5B post-money valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners; it has now raised $18.2B in total funding Anthropic is focused on developing AI systems that can serve as true collaborators working alongside teams to tackle complex projects synthesize information across fields and help organizations achieve outsized impact. https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/anthropic-raises-3-5b-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/anthropic-raises-3-5b-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions/"
X Link 2025-03-03T17:42Z 80.2K followers, [----] engagements
"New agents - Microsoft launches new OpenAI-powered AI agents Researcher and Analyst designed to function as digital colleagues available via its Agent Store https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-just-launched-powerful-ai-agents-that-could-completely-transform-your-workday-and-challenge-googles-workplace-dominance/ https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-just-launched-powerful-ai-agents-that-could-completely-transform-your-workday-and-challenge-googles-workplace-dominance/"
X Link 2025-04-23T16:45Z 80.6K followers, [---] engagements
"Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $855M vs. $847M est. Net income of $9M MAUs up 10% to 570M and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 15%+ after hours US and Canada make up 78% of global revenue. https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/Pinterest-Announces-First-Quarter-2025-Results-Delivers-16-Revenue-Growth-and-Record-Users/default.aspx"
X Link 2025-05-09T11:47Z 80K followers, [---] engagements
"I saw a notification for this yesterday while in Firefox - Firefox quietly starts testing Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/firefox-quietly-starts-testing-perplexity-ai-as-a-built-in-search-engine/ https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/17/firefox-quietly-starts-testing-perplexity-ai-as-a-built-in-search-engine/"
X Link 2025-06-17T17:01Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements
"An update on ad blockers. Includes survey data based on what users find most annoying/disruptive with ads - Ad-Shield: 976M people globally use ad blockers that block on-site analytics whitelisted ads registration walls and more up from 590M in [----] 'Dark traffic' up by 49% in three years according to new study. Survey question: Which types of ads do you find the most disruptive or frustrating *51% - Video ads that play before content *20% - image ads situated over content via @CharlotteTobitt"
X Link 2025-07-20T12:58Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
""A Colossal Shift" but will this change as we get closer to the holiday shopping season - Amazon pulls out of Google Shopping ads Interesting catch by @mikeryanretail: "While Amazon has been cooling on Google Shopping for about a year the shift from a slow retreat to a total stop is a major inflection point Ryan added." via @TheMarketingAnu https://searchengineland.com/amazon-pulls-out-of-google-shopping-ads-459509 https://searchengineland.com/amazon-pulls-out-of-google-shopping-ads-459509"
X Link 2025-07-27T11:41Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Oof it has lost $70B since [----] - Meta's Reality Labs Q2: revenue up 5% YoY to $370M vs. $381M est. and a $4.53B operating loss vs. $4.99B est.; Reality Labs has lost nearly $70B since [----] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/metas-reality-labs-second-quarter-2025.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/metas-reality-labs-second-quarter-2025.html"
X Link 2025-07-31T11:48Z 80.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Pinterest Q2 earnings: Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $998M vs. $975M est. 578M global MAUs vs. 574.5M est. Net income of $38.6M and earnings per share below est.; PINS down 10%+ after hours https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/Pinterest-Announces-Second-Quarter-2025-Results-Delivers-17-Revenue-Growth-and-Record-Users/default.aspx https://investor.pinterestinc.com/news-and-events/press-releases/press-releases-details/2025/Pinterest-Announces-Second-Quarter-2025-Results-Delivers-17-Revenue-Growth-and-Record-Users/default.aspx"
X Link 2025-08-07T21:34Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Big payday for OpenAI employees - Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell $6B in stock to Thrive Capital SoftBank and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at $500B https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/openai-6-billion-stock-500-billion-valuation.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/openai-6-billion-stock-500-billion-valuation.html"
X Link 2025-08-16T12:23Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Well there you have it. It's SerpApi. Note Perplexity is also a customer of theirs - Sources: OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports "OpenAI is getting the data from SerpApi an eight-year-old web-scraping firm which listed OpenAI as a customer on its website as recently as May last year. It removed the reference for reasons that couldnt be learned." https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenging-google-using-search-data"
X Link 2025-08-22T15:51Z 80K followers, 14.2K engagements
"Great info shared by @Marie_Haynes including Glue Google's index spam score vs. page quality PageRank RankEmbed Bert and more. New Google court docs on search index spam score PageRank page quality Glue and more https://t.co/NfqecTFGT7 thanks @Marie_Haynes https://t.co/i2vQGH4VUY New Google court docs on search index spam score PageRank page quality Glue and more https://t.co/NfqecTFGT7 thanks @Marie_Haynes https://t.co/i2vQGH4VUY"
X Link 2025-09-04T12:11Z 80.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Element: payment - Reddit Yahoo Medium Quora People O'Reilly wikiHow Ziff Davis and others adopt the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard that sets terms for AI scraping "The RSL Standard builds upon the robots.txt protocol which has long allowed publishers to provide instructions to web crawlers about what parts of their site they can and cant access. But instead of just saying yes or no to specific bots websites can now add licensing and royalty terms to their robots.txt file. They can also embed the terms in online books videos and training datasets that they may want compensation for.""
X Link 2025-09-10T16:27Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@lilyraynyc And all this time Google could have easily stopped the great decoupling (or at least part of it) by blocking scraping like this. :)"
X Link 2025-09-15T13:21Z 79.7K followers, [---] engagements
"FYI crawling seems to be surging back for some sites that saw a drop around 8/22. Google fixed a problem for sites that saw a big drop around 8/8 but then more dropped on 8/22. Just a heads-up for anyone that saw crawling drop off a cliff around then. See screenshot below"
X Link 2025-09-17T18:40Z 80.9K followers, [----] engagements
"It's a beast - Similarweb: TikTok had 183M US MAUs on iOS and Android in August [----] up 16% YoY vs. Instagram's 169M Facebook's 157M Pinterest's 100M and Snapchat's 70M Also: "TikToks daily active users (DAUs) grew 19% year over year to [---] million just shy of Facebooks [---] million daily users a testament to how ingrained the older social network has become for some Americans over the years. Facebook leads TikTok by a small margin on desktop and mobile web as well but the audiences there are smaller than in the apps.""
X Link 2025-09-20T12:52Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Revealed that takedown efforts have not slowed down (after reporting stalled in April) - Google Searchs DMCA Transparency Report Resumes Adds [---] Billion Pirate URLs "As shown below as of September [--] [----] the company has received reports for [-----------] allegedly infringing URLs. This means that more than [--] billion were added over the past few months." "Over the past year rightsholders asked Google to remove five billion URLs from search results while it previously took nearly ten years to reach the same milestone." via @torrentfreak"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:06Z 80.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If @Majestic could help me find this link network in [--] minutes how quickly do you think Google could find it and devalue all links there All of those unnatural links per page are in a div set to display:none. There are hundreds of those links per page within the network. Check out visibility for the domain btw (the one in the screenshot). Zero visibility over years. Just one page indexed in Google now. Always interesting when I find things like this during audits"
X Link 2025-09-23T12:43Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Big news but sounds pretty rough right now (and Google hasn't said they would follow the instructions). Also what are the robots.txt directives for this Be careful - Cloudflare Sets Up a Fight Over Googles AI Overviews Access "Cloudflare which says it powers 20% of the worlds internet traffic on Wednesday announced a new feature that it said will enable website owners to block Googles AI Overviews search product without having to opt out of being included in Google search." "In an interview Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that Cloudflare is making it easier for website publishers to update"
X Link 2025-09-24T16:42Z 79.8K followers, 17.9K engagements
"Focus on recipes food content etc. - People Inc. (formerly DotDash) acquires Feedfeed a food publisher and creator network with [----] influencer partners "People Inc. will instead be taking Feedfeed's model of leveraging a strong network of top social influencers for distribution and monetization and bringing it to other categories within the People Inc. portfolio such as beauty style travel home entertainment and possibly health and finance." https://www.axios.com/2025/10/01/people-inc-acquires-feedfeed https://www.axios.com/2025/10/01/people-inc-acquires-feedfeed"
X Link 2025-10-02T12:25Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Google's "Try on" technology expands - Our try on tool adds shoes and will expand to new countries "In the coming weeks its expanding to Australia Canada and Japan and starting today its rolling out to a new category shoes." https://blog.google/products/shopping/virtual-try-on-shoes/ https://blog.google/products/shopping/virtual-try-on-shoes/"
X Link 2025-10-08T15:54Z 81.3K followers, [----] engagements
"More Sora trouble - Disney has opted out of having its IP appear in OpenAI's Sora app; Creative Artists Agency (CAA) says OpenAI is exposing artists to significant risk with Sora https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hollywood-talent-agency-caa-says-openais-sora-poses-risk-creators-rights-2025-10-09/ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/hollywood-talent-agency-caa-says-openais-sora-poses-risk-creators-rights-2025-10-09/"
X Link 2025-10-09T11:51Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"What could go wrong - It's trivially easy to poison LLMs into spitting out gibberish says Anthropic "Researchers at the US AI firm working with the UK AI Security Institute Alan Turing Institute and other academic institutions said today that it takes only [---] specially crafted documents to force a generative AI model to spit out gibberish when presented with a certain trigger phrase." https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/its_trivially_easy_to_poison/ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/its_trivially_easy_to_poison/"
X Link 2025-10-10T11:47Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"The AI Search platforms are just in the beginning phases. Think about the knowledge graph shopping graph GBP and more. Robby: "So there's [--] billion products in the Google shopping graph for instance. They're updated two billion times an hour by merchants with live prices right You have [---] million places and maps. You have all of the you know finance information. I mean then not not to mention you have the entire context of the web and how to connect to it so that you can get context but then go deeper and you kind of like put all of that into this brain that is effectively this way to talk"
X Link 2025-10-13T12:21Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Interior Design Agents - How Williams-Sonoma uses agentic AI to enhance customer experience "Using agentic AI Williams-Sonoma has developed and is in the process of developing interior design agents Hassan said. The retailers agents understand consumers preferences surrounding style and products as well as understanding their homes and spaces in a way that helps with design he said. They also walk consumers through entire process of not just choosing the right product but making sure its designed in the right way he added.""
X Link 2025-10-14T12:37Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Wow check out the video example in the post. Damn - After auto-dubbing YouTube is toying with automatic lip-syncs "The system makes intricate pixel-level changes to modify the speakers mouth ensuring the dub looks realistic. It is powered by a custom AI built to understand the nuances of facial structure including 3D perception of the lips teeth and even different facial expressions." https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-auto-dubbing-lip-sync-videos-3606928/ https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-auto-dubbing-lip-sync-videos-3606928/"
X Link 2025-10-14T17:02Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Here come the AI Search core systems. My latest post which I've been meaning to write for a while now - AI Search and the growing importance of developing strong core visibility systems site-level quality scoring and anti-spam systems IMO there is no way the AI Search platforms like ChatGPT Perplexity Claude and others can let people game visibility while destroying user trust over time. AI Search platforms are building their own search indexes (like Perplexity's index with hundreds of billions of documents already) which means they will need to develop strong core visibility systems"
X Link 2025-10-15T12:23Z 79.7K followers, 27.8K engagements
"Don't forget about Anthropic recently valued at $170B - Anthropic Gets Ready to Go Startup Shopping (it told investment bankers it's ready to acquire more companies) "The San Francisco startup could use such acquisitions to bring on more technical staff and to strengthen its capabilities beyond coding-related tasks which comprises the majority of its revenue according to people who have spoken to its executives." "Anthropic could also use acquisitions to develop products focused on specific industries such as financial services healthcare and cybersecurity according to the people who have"
X Link 2025-10-15T16:37Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"In case you missed it earlier my latest post covers how AI Search platforms like ChatGPT Perplexity Claude and others are building their own search indexes and that means they will need to develop their own core systems (including anti-spam systems). IMO there is no way that the AI Search platforms will continue to let people spam them like they are now. which could destroy user trust. My post covers all of this in detail and includes supporting tweets podcasts and videos from @lilyraynyc @thetafferboy and @randfish. You should check it out. but grab a cup of coffee first or a red bull. :)☕"
X Link 2025-10-15T16:43Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Well that was fast - Apple executive Ke Yang who was appointed just weeks ago as head of a team developing a ChatGPT-like AI-driven web search for Siri is leaving for Meta "Just weeks ago Yang was appointed head of a team called Answers Knowledge and Information or AKI which is central to the Siri voice assistant's overhaul planned for March the report said." https://www.reuters.com/business/apples-newly-tapped-head-chatgpt-like-ai-web-search-leave-meta-bloomberg-news-2025-10-15/"
X Link 2025-10-16T11:46Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Following backlash about AI slop taking over users' feeds - Pinterest adds new tools to let users limit how much AI-generated content they see in their feed in certain categories including beauty art and home decor "Users can now personalize their feeds to restrict GenAI imagery in select categories and the company said it will make its existing GenAI content labels more noticeable in the days to come." https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/pinterest-adds-controls-to-let-you-limit-the-amount-of-ai-slop-in-your-feed/"
X Link 2025-10-16T15:33Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Companies could turn into 'free middleware' for OpenAI - OpenAI is proposing a "sign in with ChatGPT" feature for websites letting startups charge OpenAI model usage costs to users' ChatGPT capacity limits "Another potential downside is that depending on the startups business model it could hurt their revenueat least if they charged on a usage basis as the usage that is being credited to users ChatGPT accounts would be free. Essentially this model could turn companies that allow their users to sign in with ChatGPT into free middleware for OpenAI.""
X Link 2025-10-16T16:56Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"I'll use this gif since I think it's fitting :) - Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through "Ironically while generative AI and search engines are causing a decline in direct traffic to Wikipedia its data is more valuable to them than ever. Wikipedia articles are some of the most common training data for AI models and Google and other platforms have for years mined Wikipedia articles to power its Snippets and Knowledge Panels which siphon traffic away from Wikipedia itself.""
X Link 2025-10-17T11:50Z 79.7K followers, 11.2K engagements
"Kayak AI Mode. Yes they are calling it that. - Kayak launches a ChatGPT-powered chatbot on its desktop and mobile website that lets users ask travel questions and compare flights hotels and car rentals "The feature is currently available across both desktop and mobile web and takes advantage of Kayaks integration with ChatGPT to deliver contextual results." "The company suggests users could ask the chatbot for travel ideas like locations to fly to for under a certain price point the best deals to a preferred destination comparing hotel amenities finding nonstop flights and rental car options"
X Link 2025-10-17T11:56Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Some good nuggets of information in the interview. Like this about AI-generated content what gets surfaced in AIOs how Google works to keep spam levels down there (and even how they expanded the concept of 'spam' to include low-value content). Liz: "And actually what we see on what people click on on AI Overviews is content that is richer and deeper that surface-level AI-generated content people don't want that because if they click on that they don't actually learn that much more than they previously got. They don't trust the result any more across. But so what we see with AI Overviews is"
X Link 2025-10-17T12:18Z 80.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Interested in agents - Anthropic's Skills for Claude which are conceptually very simple may become a bigger deal than MCP whose high token usage is its most significant limitation "Skills are conceptually extremely simple: a skill is a Markdown file telling the model how to do something optionally accompanied by extra documents and pre-written scripts that the model can run to help it accomplish the tasks described by the skill." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/"
X Link 2025-10-17T12:32Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"My son and his friends (18) just told me recently that they are using ChatGPT much less and Gemini much more (and they love NotebookLM) - ChatGPTs mobile app is seeing slowing download growth and daily use analysis shows https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-seeing-slowing-download-growth-and-daily-use-analysis-shows/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/17/chatgpts-mobile-app-is-seeing-slowing-download-growth-and-daily-use-analysis-shows/"
X Link 2025-10-17T16:53Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"AGI is still a decade away. Andrej was part of the founding team at OpenAI and previously Director of AI at Tesla. He knows a thing or two about AI - Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away why reinforcement learning is terrible superintelligence his AI education startup Eureka and more https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathyopen=false#%C2%A7agi-is-still-a-decade-away https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/andrej-karpathyopen=false#%C2%A7agi-is-still-a-decade-away"
X Link 2025-10-18T12:34Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Well that was an interesting project. Cookies Live On- Google Formally Ends Privacy Sandbox Initiative "Google formally ended on Friday its six-year old effort aimed at ending the use of cookies in its Chrome browser. In a blog post Google said it would retire a suite of technologies called the Privacy Sandbox that were originally designed to replace cookies. Advertisers use cookies to help track peoples Web surfing and figure out who is seeing their ads." https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/"
X Link 2025-10-18T12:39Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Gemini [--] could be arriving this quarter - Google plans to release Gemini [--] in December; it is expected to be more performant across the board especially in coding and multimodal generation "Google targets Gemini [--] for December weighs putting more capability into the free tier and is quietly working on an integration with Apple devices" https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity https://sources.news/p/google-readies-gemini-3-perplexity"
X Link 2025-10-18T12:46Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"What could go wrong I mean who doesn't want Facebook to 'comb through your camera roll' 🤦♂- Facebooks new button lets its AI look at photos you havent uploaded yet "Meta has rolled out an opt-in AI feature to its US and Canadian Facebook users that claims to make their photos and videos more shareworthy. The only catch is that the feature is designed for your phones camera roll not the media youve already uploaded to Facebook. If you opt in Metas AI will comb through your camera roll upload your unpublished photos to Metas cloud and surface hidden gems that are lost among screenshots"
X Link 2025-10-18T12:54Z 79.6K followers, [----] engagements
"Focus on Paid Meta confirmed this - Meta Is Testing Skippable Ads on Instagram Reels Borrowing From YouTubes Playbook "A spokesperson for Meta confirmed that the company is testing the ad format adding that the limited test is designed to assess whether the format helps users discover businesses. The spokesperson added that Meta does not plan to share ad revenue with creators unlike YouTubes business." https://www.adweek.com/media/meta-is-testing-skippable-ads-on-instagram-reels-borrowing-from-youtubes-playbook/"
X Link 2025-10-19T13:14Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"AI Mode is the future of Search (as explained by Google). And we've seen Google use many ways to get people to AI Mode. and here's another. All weekend I saw a new large SERP feature labeled "Ask anything in AI Mode" with four different prompts ready to go based on my initial query. Each has the AI Mode icon next to them. Tapping each led directly to AI Mode. And this follows receiving notifications on my phone that led directly to AI Mode (as Barry covered last week). Google really wants you to use AI Mode. :)"
X Link 2025-10-20T11:22Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Reddit rising again in ChatGPT responses (at least based on PromptWatch data). Just a heads-up. :)"
X Link 2025-10-20T11:48Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Amazon always has to do things BIGGER. Replacing 500K jobs with robots. Whoa - Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K+ jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations "Amazons automation team expects the company can avoid hiring more than [------] people in the United States it would otherwise need by [----]. That would save about [--] cents on each item that Amazon picks packs and delivers to customers." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-plans-to-replace-workers-with-robots.html"
X Link 2025-10-21T11:58Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh boy. Adobe has a new GEO product. :) - Adobe Delivers LLM Optimizer for Businesses to Boost Visibility Across AI-Powered Chat Services and Browsers Enables companies to gain relevance and authority What - "It enables businesses to gain relevance and authority in an era where consumers are embracing generative AI-powered interfaces. With LLM Optimizer businesses have a comprehensive solution for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)" It can. (or can it really) *Optimize content and code to improve visibility: *Demonstrate business value"
X Link 2025-10-21T12:41Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Well the transition seems to be going smoothly. I'm seeing 404s on almost every product I check - Arena Group acquires ShopHQ to revive a once-major online retailer https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/20/arena-group-acquires-shophq-to-revive-a-once-major-online-retailer/ https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/20/arena-group-acquires-shophq-to-revive-a-once-major-online-retailer/"
X Link 2025-10-21T12:53Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Whoa OpenAI is releasing Atlas its web browser. The browser wars rage on (AI-style):"
X Link 2025-10-21T17:01Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep there will be growing pains with agents - First impressions of ChatGPT Atlas as browser agents remain confusing with insurmountable security and privacy risks including prompt injection attacks Also interesting about AIRA tags - "ChatGPT Atlas uses ARIA tags---the same labels and roles that support screen readers---to interpret page structure and interactive elements. To improve compatibility follow WAI-ARIA best practices by adding descriptive roles labels and states to interactive elements like buttons menus and forms. This helps ChatGPT recognize what each element does and interact"
X Link 2025-10-22T11:48Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"If you haven't had enough AI in other places. - Get ready for AI on the TV: Samsung has inked a deal to include Perplexity's AI engineon its latest smart TVs. And Google is putting Gemini front and center on Google TV: https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/samsung-perplexity-ai-deal-tv https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/samsung-perplexity-ai-deal-tv"
X Link 2025-10-22T12:43Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
""User journeys could be used in downstream applications for retrieval and ranking" - How Pinterest Identifies User Journeys (and why that's important) "A user journey is a sequence of user-item interactions often spanning multiple sessions that centers on a particular interest and reveals a clear intent such as exploring trends or making a purchase. For example a journey might involve an interest in summer dresses an intent to learn whats in style and a context of being ready to buy. Users can have multiple sometimes overlapping journeys occurring simultaneously as their interests and goals"
X Link 2025-10-22T17:05Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Regarding Perplexity - Perplexitys business model is effectively to take Reddits content from Google search results then feed it into an A.I. model and call it a new product the lawsuit said. Reddit said it had set a trap for Perplexity by creating a test post on its site that could only be crawled by Googles search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet. Within hours Perplexity search results had surfaced the content of that test post the lawsuit said." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/reddit-data-scrapers-perplexity-theft.html"
X Link 2025-10-22T17:16Z 79.8K followers, 42.9K engagements
"With an opt-in ad blocker. I'm sure publishers are thrilled :) - OpenAI teases a string of updates for its AI-powered browser ChatGPT Atlas Profiles coming Fry said. Tab groups and an opt-in ad blocker are also on their way in the near future." https://www.theverge.com/news/805160/openai-chatgpt-atlas-updates https://www.theverge.com/news/805160/openai-chatgpt-atlas-updates"
X Link 2025-10-23T12:15Z 79.7K followers, [---] engagements
"I'll share what Sky looks like in the next tweet. It's tech will be integrated into ChatGPT. - OpenAI acquires Software Applications Incorporated which is building an AI-powered user interface for macOS and raised $6.5M from Sam Altman and others "As part of the acquisition OpenAI plans to integrate the startups technology into ChatGPT and bring on its entire team of roughly a dozen people. Financial terms were not disclosed." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/openai-acquires-ai-startup-founded-by-former-apple-employees"
X Link 2025-10-23T18:04Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Watch the video. Personal AI assistant that can combine Search with Agentic AI. Again the tech will be integrated into ChatGPT. From the site:" Sky is a natural language interface that floats over your Mac desktop so personal AI is always at your fingertips. Whether youre chatting writing planning or coding Sky understands whats on your screen and can take action using your apps." https://x.com/skybysoftware/status/1927760056122036511 https://x.com/skybysoftware/status/1927760056122036511"
X Link 2025-10-23T18:09Z 79.7K followers, [---] engagements
"Sort of crazy considering Spotify paid out $10B during the same time paid. Not much more than YouTube - YouTube paid out $8B to the music industry in [--] months https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/youtube-paid-out-8b-to-the-music-industry-in-12-months/"
X Link 2025-10-24T11:56Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Like Claude - Claude gets a memory upgrade "Will let the AI chatbot remember past conversations without prompting." https://www.theverge.com/news/804124/anthropic-claude-ai-memory-upgrade-all-subscribers https://www.theverge.com/news/804124/anthropic-claude-ai-memory-upgrade-all-subscribers"
X Link 2025-10-24T11:59Z 80K followers, [---] engagements
"Ends up the mobile version had the AI label but the desktop version didn't. Google says it's a bug. Google is testing AI-generated descriptions for search result snippets WITHOUT AI-labels - Google's @rajanpatel confirms the missing label is a bug and overall this is an experiment https://t.co/fECOJCX4T6 via @brodieseo https://t.co/bdXbdw6iO0 Google is testing AI-generated descriptions for search result snippets WITHOUT AI-labels - Google's @rajanpatel confirms the missing label is a bug and overall this is an experiment https://t.co/fECOJCX4T6 via @brodieseo https://t.co/bdXbdw6iO0"
X Link 2025-10-24T12:11Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"OpenAI has launched Company Knowledge for ChatGPT Business Enterprise and Edu providing workers with direct answers from their own documents and tools. https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-launches-company-knowledge-on-chatgpt-for-business/ https://www.testingcatalog.com/openai-launches-company-knowledge-on-chatgpt-for-business/"
X Link 2025-10-24T12:22Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Focus on health and medical - Google Gemini adds premade wellness Gem more "As your wellness assistant I can help you with a wide range of topics related to your physical and mental well-being. Think of me as a knowledgeable and supportive partner on your health journey." https://9to5google.com/2025/10/24/gemini-wellness-gem/ https://9to5google.com/2025/10/24/gemini-wellness-gem/"
X Link 2025-10-25T12:09Z 79.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh boy - Google Investigates Weekslong Security Breach Involving Contractor "Google is investigating a breach of its security systems involving a contractor who took almost [----] screenshots and sensitive internal files including information related to Googles Play store systems and guardrails according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The contractor sent the images to an unidentified outsider the person said." "The screenshots and documents the contractor had copied included software code information on certain developer accounts and information about how accounts are reviewed for"
X Link 2025-10-26T11:33Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Train the AI. What could go wrong You will also have an interview with AI to quality. Oof - LinkedIn Offers Users Opportunities To Help Train Its AI Systems LinkedIn is offering members an opportunity to earn flexible skill-based income using their expertise to help companies develop high-quality human-labeled data for AI training. This initiative reflects our commitment to creating economic opportunities for every member of the global workforce. For projects related to your specific expertise (e.g. law medicine finance) LinkedIn will use your profile data such as education licenses and work"
X Link 2025-10-26T11:50Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"User-agent referrals new users and more. Great post from Dana DiTomaso at Kickpoint - ChatGPT's Atlas and Google Analytics 4: Key points and information about tracking Atlas https://kpplaybook.com/resources/google-analytics-chatgpt-atlas/ https://kpplaybook.com/resources/google-analytics-chatgpt-atlas/"
X Link 2025-10-27T12:40Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Grokipedia launches - Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia (with entries edited by xAI) "Grokipedia which briefly crashed after its launch Monday afternoon tallied more than [------] A.I.-generated encyclopedia entries compared with Wikipedias nearly eight million human-written ones. Visitors to the website were greeted with a bare-bones logo and a search bar that allowed them to query topics." "Jimmy Wales a Wikipedia co-founder said in an interview that he did not think A.I. could replace the sites accuracy.""
X Link 2025-10-28T11:45Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"That's big for ChatGPT commerce - PayPal CEO Alex Chriss says the company signed a deal with OpenAI to let shoppers use PayPal's digital wallet in ChatGPT to pay for items starting in [----] (making it the first payments wallet in ChatGPT) Weve got hundreds of millions of loyal PayPal wallet holders who now will be able to click the Buy with PayPal button on ChatGPT and have a safe and secure checkout experience Chriss said in an interview." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-openai-chatgpt-payments-deal.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/paypal-openai-chatgpt-payments-deal.html"
X Link 2025-10-28T11:48Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep surged out of nowhere (which can happen.) I'm sure it will drop quickly but it's ranking in the SERPs and Discover as of now. And DO NOT click the link if you search for it. it's a dangerous site - Google promotes fake content to millions on Discover news platform https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promotes-fake-content-to-millions-on-discover-news-platform/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promotes-fake-content-to-millions-on-discover-news-platform/"
X Link 2025-10-28T12:16Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"New TLD reporting in Cloudflare Radar - From .com to .anything: introducing Top-Level Domain (TLD) insights on Cloudflare Radar "The landing page and the dedicated per-TLD pages provide TLD managers and site owners with a perspective on the relative popularity of TLDs they manage or may be considering domains in as well as insights into TLD traffic volume and distribution." https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-tld-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-tld-insights-on-cloudflare-radar/"
X Link 2025-10-28T12:38Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Adobe is leaning heavily into AI - Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express and more "First the company says it's opening up support for custom models allowing creatives to train their own AI models to create specific characters and tones." "Firefly is also getting two new generative AI features: Generate Soundtrack and Generate Speech. Both do exactly as their names suggest with some specific guardrails in place." "Generate Speech is the first time Adobe has added text-to-speech"
X Link 2025-10-28T12:50Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@patrickstox https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/ai-search-javascript-rendering/ https://www.gsqi.com/marketing-blog/ai-search-javascript-rendering/"
X Link 2025-10-28T14:45Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements
"What could go wrong Oof be careful out there in AI Browser Land - ChatGPT Tainted Memories: LayerX Discovers The First Vulnerability in OpenAI Atlas Browser Allowing Injection of Malicious Instructions into ChatGPT https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/layerx-identifies-vulnerability-in-new-chatgpt-atlas-browser/ https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/layerx-identifies-vulnerability-in-new-chatgpt-atlas-browser/"
X Link 2025-10-28T16:56Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Will you be the recommended search result Keep an eye on this - Firefox may soon display search results directly in the address bar "The improved search suggestions in Firefox are currently available for users in the U.S. and will roll out to more regions in the coming year." "Instead of taking the user to the results page Firefox will display the top result directly in the address bar as you type your query. Mozilla's blog highlights some examples such as checking for flight details. It displays the time of departure arrival destination the current status (on time or not) etc. without"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:01Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"It can be yours for $20K arriving in [----] - A look at 1X's $20K Neo humanoid housekeeper robot controlled remotely by a human with a VR headset available now for preorder with delivery expected in [----] "Neos creator 1X Technologies is making the Rosie-the-Robot dream: some of the first humanoid housekeepers. Starting Tuesday you can apply to its early adopter program and preorder one for $20000 with delivery expected in [----]. The company will also offer a $499 monthly rental plan with a six-month minimum commitment." "Just one hidden cost: your privacy. For now youll need to be cool with a"
X Link 2025-10-28T19:34Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"You can say that again - "To spend that much ultimately OpenAI will have to generate far more revenue." - Sam Altman: OpenAI wants to get to $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spend "In a question-and-answer session during the livestream Altman said that enterprise customers will be a big revenue driver but he also sees ways to bring in funds from consumers beyond monthly paid subscriptions." "Eventually we need to get to hundreds of billions a year in revenue and we're on a pretty steep curve towards that" Altman added." https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/openai-1-trillion-altman"
X Link 2025-10-28T19:39Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Another one for the OpenAI lawsuit list from @AIoriginality. Now Cameo is suing them. https://originality.ai/blog/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-list Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement alleging Sora's "cameo" feature is likely to cause confusion and dilute its brand (@blakebrittain / Reuters) https://t.co/AKEK6k1qEm https://t.co/zHIevX2KPu 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://originality.ai/blog/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-list Celebrity video shoutout app Cameo sues OpenAI for trademark infringement alleging Sora's "cameo" feature is likely to cause"
X Link 2025-10-28T23:19Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Oh boy - Some ad buyers say brands are increasingly spending on Reddit reviving old threads seeding "organic" posts and even paying third-party groups to generate content due to the site's prominence in AI-powered search results and its growing audience https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/ https://www.adweek.com/media/reddit-advertisers-ai-search-visibility-deck/"
X Link 2025-10-29T11:52Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"OpenAI is tracking toward achieving an intern-level research assistant by September [----] and a fully automated legitimate AI researcher by [----] "Jakub Pachocki OpenAIs chief scientist joined Altman on the livestream. He described this AI researcher not to be confused with a human who researches AI as a system capable of autonomously delivering on larger research projects. https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/sam-altman-says-openai-will-have-a-legitimate-ai-researcher-by-2028/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/sam-altman-says-openai-will-have-a-legitimate-ai-researcher-by-2028/"
X Link 2025-10-29T11:59Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements
"This is still showing. LOL. Doesn't mean it's impacting rankings (nothing changed there) but clearly a system is using that anchor text when populating sitelinks - Disney's sitelinks still showing Black hat SEO packages See the sitelinks below as of this morning and some of the links that were pointed at that page. Hard to believe Google hasn't fixed this situation yet. via @btabke https://www.searchengineworld.com/negative-and-link-based-seo-still-working-magic-in-site-links https://www.searchengineworld.com/negative-and-link-based-seo-still-working-magic-in-site-links"
X Link 2025-10-29T12:20Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"From the Google Security Blog. This will happen one year from now with Chrome [---] - HTTPS by default "One year from now with the release of Chrome [---] in October [----] we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable Always Use Secure Connections. This means Chrome will ask for the user's permission before the first access to any public site without HTTPS." "If you are a website developer or IT professional and you have users who may be impacted by this feature we very strongly recommend enabling the "Always Use Secure Connections" setting today to help identify sites that you may need"
X Link 2025-10-29T12:29Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"As a quick reminder Reddit is suing Perplexity and included three other companies in the filing including Serpapi. Here is Serpapi's statement about the lawsuit. SerpApi's statement on Reddit suing them https://t.co/oZwRVnIOKi https://t.co/4DCZuPbSAA SerpApi's statement on Reddit suing them https://t.co/oZwRVnIOKi https://t.co/4DCZuPbSAA"
X Link 2025-10-29T14:09Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"AOL has bounced around over the past few years - Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons sources say in a deal valued at $1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties "Apollo was not actively looking to sell AOL but the brand's strong performance prompted inbound interest pushing the firm to more formally evaluate potential buyers Axios reported." https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/italys-bending-spoons-acquire-aol-secures-28-bln-debt-financing-2025-10-29/"
X Link 2025-10-29T16:36Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Google Q3 earnings coming soon - Alphabet set to report Q3 earnings after the bell Wednesday What analysts are expecting: Revenue:$99.89 billion Earnings per share:$2.33 YouTube advertising revenue:$10.01 billion Google Cloud revenue: $14.74 billion Traffic acquisition costs (TAC):$14.82 billion https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alphabet-google-q3-earnings.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alphabet-google-q3-earnings.html"
X Link 2025-10-29T16:46Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"NotebookLM update - Chat in NotebookLM: A powerful goal-focused AI research partner "Weve significantly improved chat in NotebookLM with a 8x larger context window 6x longer conversation memory and boosting response quality by 50%. Plus anyone can now set goals in Chat to better steer responses towards their custom needs." https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-custom-personas-engine-upgrade/ https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-custom-personas-engine-upgrade/"
X Link 2025-10-29T17:51Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"Good to see this on Fast Company. And it matches what my recent post outlined about the danger of spamming AI Search platforms - Heres why you dont need a magic GEO hack Great quote: "But herein lies the danger. If SEOs past is any teacher were headed toward a new playground of snake-oil and shortcuts. Soon youll see GEO specialists AI optimization gurus and zero-click quantum marketing workshops popping up. Brands will chase algorithms that nobody fully understands pay for tools that promise to place you inside the answer box and invest in techniques whose mechanics are opaque even to those"
X Link 2025-10-29T19:53Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Google Q3: $102B in revenue $34.9B in net income. YouTube with $10.2B in revenue. Total advertising revenue of $74.1B. Alphabet Announces Third Quarter [----] Results (Alphabet) https://t.co/cUQoKetv7g https://t.co/C2n3WQNASg 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM Alphabet Announces Third Quarter [----] Results (Alphabet) https://t.co/cUQoKetv7g https://t.co/C2n3WQNASg 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM"
X Link 2025-10-29T20:11Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"YouTube is a beast - Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B vs. $10.01B est. and Google's ad revenue reached $74.18B up from $65.85B in Q3 [----] "Pichai said that in the U.S. YouTube Shorts its TikTok-like short-form video format now generates more revenue per watch hour than traditional in-stream video (although Shorts overall represents a small share of its video advertising sales)." https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/youtube-ad-sales-q3-2025-alphabet-google-earnings-1236564829/"
X Link 2025-10-30T11:45Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"My latest post is for all the site owners out there getting hammered by AI tools scrapers and bots over the past several months - Stop the AI Tool and scraper madness Set up Cloudflare today and watch expensive automated traffic disappear Case Study In my post I explain how after running my blog for nearly two decades I suddenly starting getting overage notices for traffic. After digging in with Kinsta (which is awesome btw) it was clear the 'visits' were BS automated traffic from AI tools and scrapers. I explain how I set up Cloudflare on top of my Kinsta package which already used"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:25Z 79.9K followers, 12.9K engagements
"@rustybrick You can say that again. The overage situation was insane based on those additional 'visits'. I knew right away that wasn't right. and that AI tools scrapers etc. were the cause. Super bot fight mode is great for handling that. :)"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:32Z 79.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Character Cameos and video stitching functionality for creating longer clips arrive - OpenAI's Sora app adds new features including "character cameos" to create AI deepfakes of pets illustrations and more clip stitching and leaderboards Once created each character comes with its own permissions separate from your personal likeness: keep it just for yourself share it with mutual followers or open it to everyone on Sora https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-cameo-updates https://www.theverge.com/news/809877/openai-sora-app-character-cameo-updates"
X Link 2025-10-30T12:44Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Wait you mean the AI Search platforms need anti-spam systems I think someone just wrote about that :) - OpenAIs new browser Atlas and Perplexity fall for AI-targeted Cloaking Attack *Agent-aware cloaking reliably changes what AI search tools read a very simplistic but powerful exploit. *We built controlled site and apps that serves different pages to regular browsers vs AI crawlers (OpenAIs Atlas ChatGPT Perplexity) and showed this can lead to context poisoning. *This opens new attack vectors. Some immediate examples include manipulation of hiring decisions product recommendations reputation"
X Link 2025-10-30T13:04Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Yep great post from Lily. Some good quotes below but definitely go and read the entire article on LinkedIn: "The truth is many brands automatically earned brand mentions and citations in LLMs by - wait for it - being among the best and most frequently cited brands in the space." "We have some clients who had already driven millions in revenue from AI search by H2 of [----]. What did they do differently for GEO (Aside from the work we have been doing with SEO for years plus all the other integrated marketing approaches they have implemented to become well-known and trusted brands) The true"
X Link 2025-10-30T13:34Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@vsmferrari It's crazy. Massive crawling via AI tools scrapers bots etc. Cloudflare got it under control and quickly. It started only when the AI search ecosystem started. Shocking. :)"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:02Z 79.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Well that's interesting - Google launches Pomelli experimental Marketing AI Agent "This experiment gives users the ability to provide a URL for their business after which the agent analyzes the site extracting brand guidelines the core topic and relevant information from sections like the About page. Based on this research Pomelli organizes the collected assets and lets users review or modify them users can exclude or add materials to ensure the brand concept is accurate." https://www.testingcatalog.com/google-launches-pomelli-experimental-marketing-ai-agent/"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:42Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
"ChatGPT News - Docusign is coming soon to ChatGPT "Docusign has announced that its Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) platform will soon be integrated directly into ChatGPT. This move brings Docusigns contract creation signing and management capabilities to users within ChatGPTs interface targeting both individual professionals and large organizations who manage a high volume of agreements." https://www.testingcatalog.com/docusign-integrates-iam-for-agreement-management-in-chatgpt/ https://www.testingcatalog.com/docusign-integrates-iam-for-agreement-management-in-chatgpt/"
X Link 2025-10-30T16:46Z 80.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Aardvark - OpenAI launches Aardvark a GPT-5-powered autonomous cybersecurity research agent that can identify and help patch vulnerabilities in private beta "The agent is meant to tackle existing challenges in the software security space as tens of thousands of new vulnerabilities are discovered across enterprise and open-source codebases every year the company said in the blog post." "Our developers found real value in how clearly it explained issues and guided them to fixes. That signal told us we were on the path to something meaningful" Matt Knight VP at OpenAI told me.""
X Link 2025-10-30T19:24Z 79.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Pinterests new AI shopping assistant helps you pick a fit "Beginning on Thursday and over the coming weeks and months Pinterest users will be able to talk to the visual platform about what theyre shopping or searching for. The Pinterest Assistant will come back with personalized recommendations based on the users saved collections and whatever pins are currently up on their screen and briefly narrate the results." https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/809326/pinterest-ai-shopping-assistant-ceo-ready"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:35Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Google has rolled out several Pinterest-like tools and features recently. Mixboard is another - Google Mixboard Expands to 180+ Countries After User Surge "Users have been leveraging Mixboard's AI-powered concepting boards for party planning DIY projects and storyboarding - use cases that apparently caught even Google by surprise." "Mixboard operates as a digital canvas where users can combine their own images with AI-generated content. The platform's secret weapon is Nano Banana Google's Gemini-powered image model that handles both creation and editing tasks. Users can generate text blocks"
X Link 2025-11-01T13:18Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"Focus on finance Heads-up. The new AI-powered Google Finance (in beta) now has a new earnings experience. Earnings call audio instant transcripts 'At a glance' which updates before during and after calls and more. Earnings season just got a major upgrade. Weve launched a brand new earnings experience in the new Google Finance Get live audio instant transcripts and AI insights right when they matter. https://t.co/gl8ic2mrAM Earnings season just got a major upgrade. Weve launched a brand new earnings experience in the new Google Finance Get live audio instant transcripts and AI insights right"
X Link 2025-11-01T13:27Z 79.9K followers, [----] engagements
"More about eBay coming to ChatGPT - eBay invests in agentic AI for shopping working with OpenAI In addition to selling weve been testing a variety of agentic experiences in search and shopping to learn how buyers and sellers engage with AI at different phases of the customer journey Iannone toldinvestors. This includes both on eBay agentic experiences like our AI shopping agent pilot and third-party agents from companies like OpenAI. https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/31/ebay-agentic-ai-commerce-openai/ https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2025/10/31/ebay-agentic-ai-commerce-openai/"
X Link 2025-11-01T14:04Z 80K followers, [----] engagements
"I signed up for the Pro plan but I think most can sign up for the free plan. I primarily did this for the bot detection and automated traffic detection but there is a ton of functionality available in Cloudflare that I will look at over time. Highly recommend it especially considering the onslaught of BS crawling going on. It's insane"
X Link 2025-11-01T14:12Z 79.8K followers, [--] engagements
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