Eric Van Buskirk

I posted this 10 years ago and then bought zero crypto.

Initially, it seemed too much trouble.

Then, five years later, crypto bros made me realize it's icky and BS. 😆

$10,000 ten years ago= $2,390,000 today.
Percentage Gain= 23,900%

C'est la vie.

#fail

FB lost whatever small amount of credibility it had. People don't want to do AI for a company that's so dishonest when there's so much at stake.

After doing the 70-person usability study with
@kevin-indig.bsky.social I can say with 100% certainty we're fooling ourselves by relying so much on click data. Search behavior with AIO and other SERP features is complex, but it follows CLEAR PATTERNS. Click data is 1/2 the story.

Opinion | A Comprehensive Accounting of Trump’s Culture of Corruption

Gifting this because: Entrepreneur Justin Sun, who spent over $40 million on Trump cryptocurrency and previously invested $75 million in another Trump crypto venture, benefited when the SEC paused its fraud case against him shortly after Trump took office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/o...

How Google AI Mode Keeps Users in AI Mode AI Mode is a new feature in Google Search that utilizes AI to provide in-depth, comprehensive responses to detailed questions. Last week at Google I/O, Google announced that AI Mode would become publi...

My latest rant:

How Google's AI Mode is Designed to Keep Users in AI Mode

#SEO #AI #Google #AIMode #GoogleIO

www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-go...

If it was a “personal” and not a “presidential” meeting, why the presidential seal?

Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex

Gifted because I live in Vietnam, and it's disgusting to see the Trumps grifting their way through so many corrupt transactions with foreigners and foreign countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...

How much more insulting could someone be to an entire industry? Joe P. uses the term "SEO gurus" for everyone in our industry. I love journalists, but @joeprocopio.com acts like a guru himself and makes me hesitate.

Google News Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.

This is the most insulting article title in years. SEO is not dead. Original writing, video, audio, and images are dead because Google stole them all. SEOs are not all "gurus."

Joe Procopio is a stooge for Google with his own agenda.

www.inc.com/joe-procopio...

Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris Google’s first year with AI search was a wild ride. It will get wilder.

HUBRIS. Plain and simple.

arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

OMG, here we go again with the OpenAI Cluster F**ck of a naming system. 😆

Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember 'your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing | TechCrunch OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month.  When asked by one OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he eventually sees the model documenting and remembering everything in a person’s life: books, emails, conversations, all of it. He said young people are close to this already.

Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing

Most users only read a third of Google's AI Overviews: Study Most users skim AI Overviews, rarely click citations, and turn to Reddit for social proof, a new UX study finds.

Thanks for highlighting our work, @mrdannygoodwin.bsky.social . I was the research director: if anyone's curious about what went into it, AMA. "Most users only read a third of Google's AI Overviews: Study" searchengineland.com/google-ai-ov...

Google is reportedly planning to unveil a Pinterest alternative at I/O 2025 Google is set to debut a new feature that The Information describes as "Pinterest-like" at its annual I/O developer conference next week.

rumors continue to float that google will launch a Pinterest like clipping service clone. www.engadget.com/big-tech/goo...

You count on the NPR Network. THANK YOU to our supporters who are showing we can count on you too.

If you haven’t given yet, it’s time to join the movement to defend public media.

Donate now: n.pr/3EYClNR

The first-ever UX Study of Google’s AI Overviews: The Data We've All Been Waiting For We tracked 70 users across 8 tasks to deeply understand their behavior, thoughts emotions when engaging with Google's AI Overviews and other SERP Features. The findings paint a new picture of SEO.

Link: www.growth-memo.com/p/the-first-...

My team just completed unicorn-level research: the first independent usability study of Google’s AI Overviews (AIO).

🔎 70 users, 400 live AIO encounters

Thanks to the leadership from @kevin-indig.bsky.social ! Read it on Growth Memo. Link 👇
#SEO #AIO #UX

The Data Behind Google's AI Overviews: What Sundar Pichai Won't Tell You Exclusive and groundbreaking data about Google usage and AI Overviews stress tests Google's claims.

Exclusive and groundbreaking data about Google usage and AI Overviews stress tests Google's claims. www.searchenginejournal.com/data-behind-...

Elon Musk's Grok AI Is as Gross as You Might Expect xAI’s chatbot is responding to requests to undress images of X users.

Elon Musk's Grok AI Is as Gross as You Might Expect https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-grok-ai-is-as-gross-as-you-might-expect-2000599098

Google searches are falling in Safari for the first time ever —probably because of AI AI everywhere.

Google searches are falling in Safari for the first time ever —probably because of AI

As Trump moves to tax small parcels, some retailers give up on US As the United States ends a tariff exemption for small parcels, some retailers have stopped selling to U.S. customers while others are seeking temporary workarounds in the hope the tariff rate may be reduced.

Sad day for dropshippers.

The $1 sunglasses empire built on free shipping and vibes just got nuked.

Farewell, ePacket. Hello, import duties. 🇨🇳📦💸

www.reuters.com/business/ret...

How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding (Gift Article) Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness, but you won’t figure it out alone.

Gifted, because following influencers is not a good way to learn about happiness.

"How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding" www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/m...

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim—

Oh.

Meh

Lists of tariffs issued by the White House show two different figures for some countries.

In the 80s we called people like Trump "dick bag."

Gifted. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

Joy. Time to preview the end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.

Well said. And in a world where brand signals are everything, this is an interesting phenomenon.

The 800-pound gorilla in link building? It’s five times tougher now that Google has wiped out most small and medium-sized publishers.

If you're on the client side, you're picking through a fruit market where half the produce is wax. Be careful out there.