MON, 08 JUN 2026
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AI-SEARCH · 18 stories

AI Search.

How AI Overviews, AI Mode, and the answer engines — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity — are reshaping search, plus generative engine optimization (GEO) and answer engine optimization (AEO).

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OpenAI Tests Multiple Ads Per ChatGPT Prompt. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 1 hr ago

OpenAI Tests Multiple Ads Per ChatGPT Prompt

Bing Webmaster Tools AI reporting is getting more features soon. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 2 days ago

Bing Webmaster Tools AI reporting is getting more features soon

Microsoft launches Web IQ, a Bing search layer for AI agents. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 3 days ago

Microsoft launches Web IQ, a Bing search layer for AI agents

Microsoft Concedes AI Search Cuts Clicks to Websites. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 4 days ago

Microsoft Concedes AI Search Cuts Clicks to Websites

Google adds AI Mode opt-out toggle and impression data to Search Console. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 4 days ago

Google adds AI Mode opt-out toggle and impression data to Search Console

Google opens AI Mode ads to healthcare in a limited US test. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / 5 days ago

Google opens AI Mode ads to healthcare in a limited US test

Google's Preferred Sources Badge Now Shows Up Inside AI Answers. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / Jun 1

Google's Preferred Sources Badge Now Shows Up Inside AI Answers

DuckDuckGo Installs Jumped 18% WoW After Google I/O AI Push. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 29

DuckDuckGo Installs Jumped 18% WoW After Google I/O AI Push

Google Lets Users Pull Publishers Into AI Overviews. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 29

Google Lets Users Pull Publishers Into AI Overviews

ChatGPT Referral Traffic Up 150% After OpenAI Added Homepage Links. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 28

ChatGPT Referral Traffic Up 150% After OpenAI Added Homepage Links

Google Merchant Center Adds Conversational Attributes for AI-Driven Commerce. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 27

Google Merchant Center Adds Conversational Attributes for AI-Driven Commerce

Bing Now Groups Image Results by AI-Generated Categories. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 26

Bing Now Groups Image Results by AI-Generated Categories

AI can't cite what it can't parse: the case for information architecture. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 25

AI can't cite what it can't parse: the case for information architecture

Google AI Overviews mistake queries for commands in prompt bug. Featured image for SEO
Ai-search / May 25

Google AI Overviews mistake queries for commands in prompt bug

Map fragment of a multilingual region with diverging query and retrieval paths
Ai-search / May 21

Catalan Search Exposes a Hidden Flaw in AI Retrieval

Diagram separating training data, licensed access, and retrieval as three distinct layers
Ai-search / May 21

Reddit's Pull in AI Answers Is Retrieval, Not Just Training

Editorial graphic for an article on Google AI Mode adopting Gemini 3.5 Flash
Ai-search / May 19

AI Mode adopts Gemini 3.5 Flash as default, crosses 1B users

Editorial graphic for an article on Google's redesigned AI-powered Search box
Ai-search / May 19

Google rebuilds the Search box and puts AI agents inside it

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