Eduard Blacquière

AI Mode is now available in more languages and locations around the world. Starting today, we’re bringing AI Mode in Google Search to more people around the world, launching in more than 35 new languages and over 40 new countries and territorie…

Google rolls out AI-mode in Europe now #braceforimpact blog.google/products/sea...

Golden hour ✨

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Example impact of Google's num=100 change (Ahrefs) #dontpanic

So it seems yes. Of course the main question is when - not if - it's coming. I think they still need to figure out the (ad) monetization first ;)

Google To Make AI Mode Default Search Soon Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google DeepMind, Gemini, and all AI products at Google, said Google AI Mode will be the default for Google Search "soon." He said this after Google made…

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Ditcherville by Jonathan Stark Ditcherville: Why shouldn’t we replace you with AI?

Why shouldn’t we replace you with AI?

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Still seeing the big avg. position drop in GSC accounts (when filtering for a country)

Front yard ✨

So nice, the new =AI function in Google Sheets 🙌

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Yeah, maybe navboost data shows that the old format is more helpful for some queries compared to a prominent AIO.

Maybe against my better judgment, but this AI Overview gives me a little more hope for a healthier ecosystem: AIO not on the 1st position + with links incorporated in the answer.

SEO still matters for AI Search engines  - ZipTie You’ve probably seen countless posts declaring “SEO is dead” thanks to AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews.  Instead of joining the doom-and-gloom chorus, I decided…

If your website ranks # 1 in Google’s traditional results (blue links), you have a 25% chance of being used as a source in AI Overviews.

SEO still matters for AI Search engines

Heads-up: I'm now seeing ads appearing in AI overviews for the first time… | Brodie Clark | 12 comments Heads-up: I'm now seeing ads appearing in AI overviews for the first time ever. This was announced yesterday at Google Marketing Live 2025. You'll now start to see Search and Shopping ads em...

That didn't take long after the announcement last night to see ads appear in AI Overviews.

Via @brodieclark.bsky.social

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AI Overviews are now available in over 200 countries and territories, and more than 40 languages. Today at I/O, we announced that AI Overviews in Google Search are launching in new countries and languages, bringing the helpfulness of AI to more people around the worl…

Google AI Overviews are now rolled out globally blog.google/products/sea...

After 190 days since last crawl Google forgets your page => Indexing status changes to URL is Unknown

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Read our new report on how we use AI to fight scams on Search. Today we published a new report called “Fighting Scams on Search.”We’re constantly investing in our spam-fighting technology, including systems to prevent online scams f…

Deze ene, simpele zin van Google zegt alles over waarom Helpful Content, E-E-A-T, etc. cruciaal zijn in al je SEO werkzaamheden:

"That’s because when you come to Search, we want you to trust that the results you get are relevant, helpful and safe."

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Read our new report on how we use AI to fight scams on Search. Today we published a new report called “Fighting Scams on Search.”We’re constantly investing in our spam-fighting technology, including systems to prevent online scams f…

This one simple sentence from Google says everything about why Helpful Content, E-E-A-T, etc. are critical in your SEO efforts:

"That’s because when you come to Search, we want you to trust that the results you get are relevant, helpful and safe."

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No surprises here: when AI Overviews are shown, the number 1 web search result receives -34.5% less clicks (compared to no AI Overview on the SERP)

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'Banana slurp' and 'cyclops vibing': We fed Google Search's AI nonsense phrases and it pretended to know them Get on this cyclops vibing.

To my understanding, this is how LLMs work. Confronted with something outside of their training data (eg. nonsense phrases), the systems try to find a pattern and generate a plausible explanation.

This clearly shows LLMs don't have common sense.

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Found a few with Semrush, so my conclusion would be that the rollout is happening very slow

GeeksforGeeks Got Deindexed: A Warning Shot Heard Across the SEO World Deindexing Isn’t a Bug. It’s a Signal.

Love these quotes:

"Deindexing Isn’t a Bug. It’s a Signal."

“Topical authority isn't just a buzzword. It's a boundary.”

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Google and the 130-Day Rule : Indexation strategy for already indexed pages Google’s ranking algorithm relies on a set of intrinsic values manually defined by its engineers. In other words, these are fixed parameters that do not change dynamically and apply as absolute…

Love these kind of studies and insights 👌🏻

There seems to be a 130-Day Rule with Google crawling and indexing: if a page is not crawled in the last 130 days, chances are high it will be removed from the index.

Makes sense to me.

Question: do @ahrefs.bsky.social or @semrushofficial.bsky.social already track AI Overviews in Germany? Reports/SERPs I checked show no AIOs but not sure if that might be true due to a slow rollout?

Here’s an update on our use of country code top-level domains. When you’re searching on Google, we aim to provide the most useful information, and many times that includes providing locally relevant search results. Historically, as …

Here’s an update on our use of country code top-level domains. blog.google/products/sea...

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Is The New SEO Join Reforge for an in-depth analysis of the evolving AI-driven SEO landscape. Discover the latest market intelligence and strategies to adapt and thrive in this shifting environment.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) Is The New SEO graphite.io/five-percent...

What to know about Your Money or Your Life We cover what YMYL is, what Google’s guidelines say about it and the role of E.E.A.T.

One of the best explanations about YMYL: Your Money or Your Life open.substack.com/pub/wtfseo/p...

This post explains well that YMYL applies to more types of content than I hear/read most people say.

Must see talk. Lots of respect for the courage this woman has to again, tell a very important story.

Google Says We Don't Have A Brand-Ranking System Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, said it again, that Google does not have a system to recognize if a site is run by a big brand and then automatically just ranks it higher. He said on X, "but…

Brand importance is the same as E-E-A-T (and both are aligned): it's not an isolated system or signal, but it's hugely important for SEO success!

What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) & how does it impact SEO? Learn what GEO is, how it threatens SEO, and how to manage the transition, with findings from our research.

Love how Seer puts it: You Influence AI, you Optimize for search engines.