Matthew J. Brown

Don’t turn in LLM output as your work is pretty easy to communicate and justify.

The tricky part here for students is figuring out what is research and what is a search engine when LLMs are blurring those lines at warp speed.

It’s way, way less mailed-in than Holiday Road at the very least.

They just asked AI to make this into a photo

…makes me deeply reconsider my itinerary when I take OJB

Uncompressed Bowie>Cities>Bowie

Burgerville

The wildfires a few years back that lead to social media panic and attempts at local martial law right here in Multnomah and Clackamas Co. - sure didn’t take much

@rustybrick.com Have you reported on any broken snippet issues in Google? Seeing lots of weird results and ignoring of META description tags, etc.

I hope you like lots of paragraphs.

If you didn't like content written for SEO, boy are you gonna hate content written for AI.

“Dad, look…this one’s from Hertz for $7.26” - I tear up

Someday I’ll get what I really want for Father’s Day: my family showing me all the class action lawsuit checks they’ve been saving up.

Just picturing the AI mode meme with the olympics guy celebrating and then taking third place.

Just gave a client the middle finger emoji in Slack instead of the point up - things are going great!

Oh I dunno about that. I think Top Stories numbers would be several orders of magnitude better.

Always a big hit in my talks when I say "You know as much as I do"

For the moment, AI Mode is just an experiment. But AI Overviews started as an experiment, too, and now they are default for more than 1 billion users of Google search. The good news is that Google is still working to highlight real websites, even as its AI gradually obviates the need to visit them. That bad news is that just because you show someone lots of links does not mean they will click on them.

I tested out Google's new AI mode and wrote about the uncertain future it suggests for the web www.platformer.news/google-ai-mo...

12 Laughably Bad Linkbuilding Schemes - Michael Cottam We've all had a dumb idea or two in our life, right? Today, I'm going to cover a number of common link building schemes that are either worthless, or

Links still matter to Google (no matter what they say), and so it's no wonder there's lots of companies selling links. But I'm amazed at how many really bad linkbuilding still goes on...and how many people charge for complete garbage.

www.michaelcottam.com/laughably-ba...

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

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The BA site always kills me. Oh ok, I'll just chill here and wait?

Was a mandatory deal for whoever came over today

Yorkies

It’s the University of Minnesota Spankalogical protocol!

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

We've heard this place is good for MRIs, in case that's helpful. Good luck!

"sooner or later those doves will poop in your sleeve" - SEO 2024/2025.

True

@searchliaison.bsky.social @googlenews.bsky.social This train is coming, real fast.