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Local Search/SEO doesn't get enough respect. I was on two calls this week where people referred to it as a "niche." For more than two decades I've been trying to argue, mostly unsu... Local Search/SEO doesn't get enough respect. I was on two calls this week where people referred to it as a "niche." For more than two decades I've been trying to argue, mostly unsuccessfully, that l...

Local Search/SEO doesn't get enough respect. I was on two calls this week where people referred to it as a "niche."

It's not. Read more 👇 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Yes. Let’s do a call. Good to hear from you. And if not aligned with what you’re looking for we can refer you out or whomever you’re working with.

Looking forward to this SMX session with @gsterling.bsky.social on "Coffee Talk: What's new in local search" - always have fun doing a live talk with Greg and Local Search is so much fun searchengineland.com/smx/next/age...

Apple Map Ads, LSA's 'Economic Rents,' Yelp's Uphill Battle, AI for B2B Near Media is the go-to advisor for executives at multi-location brands and vertical agencies seeking to optimize their search strategy and tactics.

The latest @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: Apple Map Ads, LSA's 'Economic Rents,' Yelp's Uphill Battle, it's AI for B2B buyers. www.nearmedia.co/apple-map-ad...

Alphabet tops $100 billion quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings after the bell Wednesday.

Google has first $100B quarter. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/a...

Would you pay $10 per month for Google Home Premium (Gemini)? Me: no.

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.

The online disinformation is out of control. Grokipedia is Wikipedia's evil twin: "if you only knew the power of the dark side." www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Trying to determine what degree of overlap exists between "web search" results in ChatGPT Atlas Browser and Google. It's not 1:1 but there's a high degree of overlap.

Totally missed this (h/t @rustybrick.com). Google search inside Atlas. Also results for the same query nearly identical minus the ads and the features (local pack, forum pack).

ChatGPT Local Pack, Atlas Browser, Local Product Inventory, Rapid Response Near Media is the go-to advisor for executives at multi-location brands and vertical agencies seeking to optimize their search strategy and tactics.

Here's yesterday's @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: ChatGPT Local Pack, Atlas Browser, Local Product Inventory, Rapid Response www.nearmedia.co/chatgpt-loca...

Some of it is pretty amazing to look at.

Slide from a deck I presented on local in a webinar with ShopLocal in 2006.

Saw this on a Google job posting today: "Experience managing ambiguous programs under pressure with tight timelines and competing priorities."

So far I would say the Atlas browser offers a better version of the ChatGPT experience; it's more complete. However it doesn't support Chrome extensions apparently.

Introducing ChatGPT Atlas The browser with ChatGPT built in.

ChatGPT launches its long awaited browser Atlas. openai.com/index/introd...

Local Apps on ChaGPT, AI Fears, Square Assistant, GDP AI, Search Fragmentation Dialog: Exchange Number 33

The most recent Dialog (Local + AI) newsletter: Local Apps on ChaGPT, AI Fears, Square Assistant, GDP AI, Search Fragmentation. www.localdialog.com/local-apps-o...

EP 227 - Inside Uberall’s Local AI Shift: From Culture Shift to Client Tools; Interview with Ana Martinez -- Part 1 Uberall CTO Ana Martinez explains how AI is reshaping culture, products, and customer engagement in their Location Management tools—from rethinking roles and workflows to launching UB-I and the Locati...

Great new interview with me and @mikeblumenthal.bsky.social talking to Ana Martinez, CTO of Uberall on their experience integrating AI more deeply into the company's workflows and customer-facing products. Part 1 of 2. www.nearmedia.co/ep-227-insid...

Building ChatGPT agents with drag and drop functionality.

It appears a much better local search experience is coming to ChatGPT via embedded third party apps.

Now 800M+ weekly ChatGPT users.

Just downloaded iOS 26 and kind of don’t like it.

2020.

Well without a qualified medical exam it can’t be conclusively determined. Trump would never submit to that. However because he raised the issue so frequently when Biden was president it’s a legitimate discussion topic, especially given his increasingly incoherent speech patterns and thoughts.

Google Accused of Blocking Searches About Trump, 79, and Dementia The president has long faced questions about his alleged mental decline.

The question of whether Trump is suffering from dementia is a legitimate discussion topic (he claimed Biden had dementia all the time). Interesting that Google, which doesn't want to draw Trump's ire, is blocking an AI Overview on the topic. www.thedailybeast.com/google-accus...

Incredibly cowardly and more about obsequious capitulation and gaining favor than reflective of the legal merits of the case. Google has fallen very very far from where it once was (or at least aspired to).

Meta Will Begin Using AI Chatbot Conversations to Target Ads While users won’t be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded.

For years, people assumed that their devices were listening and that their conversations were being used for ad targeting. Companies denied that. Now it's coming true. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...?

Local Agents, Alexa's Do-Over, Google Dark Ad Patterns, Reviewpocalypse AI Mode, Agents & Local It's still not clear whether and how AI Overviews, AI Mode, Web Guide (i.e., AI Organized pages) and Gemini and Gemini in Chrome will co-exist. Many people believe AI Mode is ...

Today's @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: AI Mode & Local Agents, Alexa's Do-Over, Google's Dark Ad Patterns, and The Reviewpocalypse www.nearmedia.co/local-agents...

Perplexity is often better for finding Google-authored content than Google is. For example I was looking for a Google blog post that discussed their removal of terms-violating reviews in 2024. Couldn't find on Google itself after several attempts, but Perplexity found it quickly.

A big problem for ChatGPT 5 is how slow it is compared to previous models for general "search" queries. This plays to Google's speed advantage.

Does Local Really Need AI?, AIO Trust, Engagement Channels, Break Up Google Near Media is the go-to advisor for executives at multi-location brands and vertical agencies seeking to optimize their search strategy and tactics.

The latest @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: Does local really need AI? AIO trust, highest engagement channels, 2 charts that argue for a Google break up. www.nearmedia.co/does-local-r...