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Barry Adams 📰 @polemicdigital.com · 2d

“The quantity of AI-generated articles has surpassed the quantity of human-written articles being published on the web.”

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More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans

AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans. It is often hard to distinguish whether content is created by AI vs. a human. We seek to evaluate the prevalence of article co...

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes. Google Offices infested with Bed Bugs. www.msn.com/en-in/news/o...

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 3d

No huge surprise here, but Wikipedia’s traffic is falling.

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Wikipedia Traffic Shifts Highlight Big Impact of Google’s AI Overviews

Wikimedia’s latest report on new user trends paints a stark picture of how internet traffic is being reshaped by AI search. The analysis shows that Wikipedia i

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 9d

Another domino falls in the world of search. Firefox can now set Perplexity as default built-in search option.

#FireFox #SEO #AIsearch #Perplexity #Mozilla

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Firefox Adds Perplexity AI as a Desktop Search Engine Option

Mozilla has officially added Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine option in the desktop version of Firefox, marking another small but steady move to

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 14d

UK takes a swing: www.searchengineworld.com/uks-competit...

UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Designate Google as having Strategic Market Status

UK targets Google Search Power Today the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) formally designated Google with Strategic Market Status in general search an

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 14d

Really? There was a dude on Fiver selling Reddit links a couple weeks ago. he got hired inhouse real quick. imho it is easier to link drop on reddit than most UGC forums.

In the end, we really don't know why G likes it so much. They have never commented. (which in itself is surprising)

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 15d

Great round up of the current situation with declining Google. Long, and well worth a read: www.seoforgooglenews.com/p/ai-surviva...

AI Survival Strategies for Publishers

AI is seen as an existential threat to publishers. There are strategies that allow for news to survive and even thrive in the AI-first world. But these may involve some tough challenges.

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 16d

The news site crash continues: www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Fears of online journalism Armageddon as Google changes the game

One year on from the rollout of Google AI Overviews in Australia, exclusive data shows steep year-on-year declines in readership for the top news websites as smaller publishers warn of lay-offs.

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 21d

Foo. Then you could put out a browser toolbar and call it the Foobar. Lol

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 22d

Cloudflare wants to fix AI scraping with Content Signals. The catch? It could end up breaking more than it fixes.

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Cloudflare’s Content Signals: The Right Problem, An Unlikely Solution

The open web has long depended on an implicit exchange: publishers make content freely available, and platforms like Google send them referral (i.e. search) tra

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 25d

Fascinating read... gizmodo.com/cracker-barr...

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 29d

Real opportunity or just noise? We asked the community to share results and experiences. From tracking and clicks to measuring ROI across ChatGPT, Bing, Perplexity, and DDG, the responses give a clear snapshot of where GEO stands today.

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#SEO #GEO #Google

GEO – Thing or No Thing? SEO Community Weights in

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has moved from theory to playing and testing ground. Marketers are experimenting across the entire spectrum from ChatGPT, B

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · 29d

CloudFlare introduces new Robots.txt directives to combat AI and search engine abuse : www.searchengineworld.com/cloudflare-e...

Cloudflare Enters the Robots.txt Fray with a “Content Signals Policy” for AI bots

Cloudflare just introduced a new way to tell bots what they can do with your content after they fetch it. The Content Signals Policy adds a short, human-readabl

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · Sep 24

New in Google Labs: Mixboard. www.searchengineworld.com/new-in-labs-...

New in Labs: Mixboard a “Concepting Board”

Google Labs has rolled out Mixboard, a new experiment aimed at turning brainstorming into a more an interactive process. It is a cross between a mood board an

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · Sep 19

And so it comes to pass: www.searchengineworld.com/google-adds-...

Google Adds Gemini Button To Chrome

Google just rolled Gemini AI into Chrome for US desktop users. This isn’t just another browser update. It’s a shift in how billions of chrome users experien

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Wil Reynolds @wilreynolds.bsky.social · Sep 14

Wait one fifth of the online chatter about cracker barrel were bots???

According to this study, yup.

21% Fake Profiles Engineered Cracker Barrel's $10.5 Million Logo Crisis - Cyabra

Cyabra uncovered that 21% of profiles attacking Cracker Barrel's logo change were fake accounts, generating 4.4M potential views and contributing to a 10.5% stock drop worth $100M in market value.…

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Scott Stratten @unmarketing.bsky.social · Sep 14

UnSpeakable: The eroding ethics in the professional speaking industry.

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · Sep 11

86% of Gen Z use TikTok weekly for search. www.searchengineworld.com/tiktok-says-...

TikTok Says its Search Engine is Rivals Google in GenZ

TikTok - the new player in Search as 86% of GenZ search on TikTok weekly.

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Brett Tabke @btabke.bsky.social · Sep 10

don't ya just love the way they all say something like "2 hours of listening and 24hrs with the case"? You can't listen to them while they are in the case. lol

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