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AI Search and the growing importance of developing strong core visibility systems, site-level quality scoring, and anti-spam systems Glenn Gabe explains the growing need for AI Search platforms to develop strong core ranking systems, site-level quality scoring, and anti-spam systems.

Here come the AI Search core systems. My latest post -> AI Search & the growing importance of developing strong core visibility systems, site-level quality scoring, & anti-spam systems

IMO, there is no way the AI Search platforms can let people game visibility while destroying user trust over time.

He totally cares about mental health issues. 🙄

Common misconceptions about screen readers - TetraLogical Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

This post by the good folks at @tetralogical.com is a fantastic article that debunks common misconceptions about screen readers (and their users)

"Common misconceptions about screen readers"
🔗 tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Highly recommended read. #a11y

Screenshot from Chrome DevTools showing a bright green advertising banner and emoji bullet point claims of product benefits.

Shopify apps are spamming a website's backend now?

Is it just me or is that a red flag? The app's reviews are overwhelmingly positive, so it's a shame they feel the need to resort to this.

I blocked out the app's name to avoid advertising them.

If ever I use generative text for something and the results are along the lines of what I expected, I think "Do I like these results because they're what I expected?"

LLM usage makes critical thinking even more important IMO, yet in general it seems to reduce critical thinking.

@not-a-robot.com

The most recent post on my profile.

I guess you saw and/or are referring to Tim Berners-Lee's article a few days ago?

It is very sad.

Something I don't get is how and why seemingly intelligent people like Geoffrey "Godfather of AI" Hinton peddle this crap. I instantly lose a lot of respect for such people.

My phone autocorrected to "Gooseberry of air" which is much more appropriate.

How about good sci-fi movies?

JPEG-XL has progressive display.

I've read it's better for colour reproduction than AVIF, and that's important given I'm a photographer and enjoy looking at photography. I think there were other photography-related reasons JPEG-XL beats AVIF.

JPEG-XL is an easy conversion from JPEG.
It's better than JPEG whereas webp sometimes is and sometimes isn't.
It wasn't created by Google (which in my experience seems to be the main reason webp was pushed).

I admire Tim Berners-Lee's generosity and optimism but can't see any government I'm aware of taking notice.

I'm there for the log files and more. I need to convince clients they're losing out by not having log file analyses.

Yes, server log files!

Dougal
Shergar
Spamurai

are the 3 I'm considering.

I think it's more about a pure white background due to the glare it can cause? I find that more difficult to read so always use off-white for backgrounds.

I believe it makes it more difficult to read for some people with dyslexia too.

Yeah, nothing petty about that gripe.

P.S. clicking in the address bar before pressing Ctrl+F fixes the first issue.

It's very annoying when websites hijack Ctrl+F, especially considering their own searches usually add to a poor user experience.

Lazy loading often breaks Ctrl+F too.

Competitors definitely aren't doing it if they rely on LLMs for SEO info.

Scientists can help governments plan for the future. But don’t forget sci-fi writers: we can do it too | Emma Newman Our job is to imagine scenarios from the impact of the climate crisis to the rise of AI – and decision-makers need our help, says Emma Newman

I see no harm in asking someone's opinion, especially in a place like NASA that has loads of great scientists.

While certain people take fiction too literally, sci-fi writers have value in this kind of thing IMO. I like this article from @emmanewman.bsky.social:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's a shame but no surprise that comments are disabled for that article.

From sportswashing to gameswashing, Saudi Arabia is overtaking the world, and gaming doesn't have the protections that popular sport does.

Google 'AI Overview' screenshot showing a gig start time as "7pm or 19:00" with the correct time of 19:30 shown in the Overview sources and first organic result.

Thanks Google for clarifying the incorrect time in two time formats.

I'd just listened to the Edwyn Collins song "Low Expectations."

It would be cool if you could.

Are you sure you're not talking about eating cheese?

1998 Notepad
2006 Dreamweaver (first web dev job)
2014 Notepad (no longer working as a web dev)
2016 Notepad++
2023 I usually use the editor that's on my cPanel server

I doubt they care as at the very least they probably won't lose money on this.

The scale doesn't surprise me, but if scrapers were the reason, while I have reservations about all data, I didn't think Search Console data would be quite as bad as it was (and maybe still is).

It doesn't feel weird to me but then again, I am used to being kept in a cupboard.