Google Keeps the Image, and the Click, on Its Own Page
Google turned Google Images into a feed and taught AI Overviews to generate pictures, a forecast cut the chatbot ad market down to size, and one analyst made the case that page layout is a ranking signal.
The Trackers Are Talking, The SEOs Are Not
Ranking tools lit up while practitioners stayed quiet, Bing explained why a drop there comes with no penalty notice, and Google showed local owners what its robocalls wrote into their listing.
ISSUE №39 · MON, 13 JUL 2026The Machines Are Reading Their Own Homework
A controlled study found AI answer engines favor machine-written pages, most sites are publishing an agent identity file nobody reviewed, and OpenAI is switching off the browser it launched last year.
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