A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 1,106 stories.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
TL;DR Claude’s watermark only flags that Claude was “likely involved,” so it can’t tell a fully AI-drafted piece from a human draft Claude lightly edited It’s an EU compliance requirement (Code of…
Ranking & Algorithms
Authority can influence whether a source is considered in generative search, but its role varies depending on the query. Explore how authority appears to work in GEO, which signals may contribute to…
AI Search & Visibility
Stay Visible is my monthly personal update for the SEO, GEO and SISTRIX community. In this edition I talk about the Deep Dive chat feature, the Google ‘goto’ redirection problem that has been solved,…
Site Architecture AI Search & Visibility
TL;DR Everyone measuring AI search is defaulting to the same KPIs, but there is no one-size-fits-all AI search KPI New research shows 54% of AI search categories lack a clear category owner, and…
Ranking & Algorithms
WeatherNext 3, our most advanced global weather AI model, is now in Search, Gemini, Maps, Google Maps Platform, and Cloud.
Local SEO
Participants in a hackathon hosted by popular AI newsletter AlphaSignal used the Brave Search API to build an autonomous agent, and get that agent to reliably act in the real world.
Damian Rollison, Senior Director of Market Insights at SOCi, joins us to walk through SOCi's third annual consumer study whose headline finding is that local discovery no longer runs in a straight…
TL;DR AI is more than just a summary or synthesis tool for project managers, and the best PMs will use it to become a better strategic partner PMs can use AI to spot ongoing friction and pinpoint the…
New tests on macOS show Brave for desktop outperforms Chrome, Edge, and Firefox in page-load speed, CPU, memory, energy, and network use. This post includes the full methodology and results.
Lake Ontario FiascoAs trade negotiations with Canada fell apart, Trump issued an order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America" A petty rebuke, it follows a similar episode in January 2024, when Trump…
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from August 2026
Assembled from our own archive of 1,106 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
