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Recent Issues

[ChatGPT can now read your Yelp page: OpenAI's licensing deal pulls reviews, ratings, and quote requests into local answers. Plus Gemini closes in on a billion users, and Google and Anthropic both open up their AI-usage data.
July 24, 2026

[ChatGPT's Ads Manager adds suppression lists, Ask YouTube rolls out to every US desktop, GPT-Live puts web search inside voice conversations, and Search Console starts measuring your Instagram and TikTok posts.
July 10, 2026

[The B.I.S.C.U.I.T. framework for AI search, Cloudflare's September 15 defaults that might block Googlebot, what 1 million keywords say about the search shift, and why the chatbot interface is on its way out.
July 03, 2026

[A new Knowatoa case study with TRMNL, Google Research on model memory, llms.txt is theater, and Claude's gains are ChatGPT's pains.
June 26, 2026

[Why AI hallucinations and Reddit manipulation share a root cause, Lily Ray's data on listicles recommending competitors 69% of the time, the Pew 60% AI-summary number is a floor, the 30-second test for AI Mode landing pages, and Google's two AI tracks: search vs. agent tooling like OKF.
June 19, 2026

[AI citations on LinkedIn (articles 57%, profiles 2.7%), Google liable for false AI Overviews, publishers vs Common Crawl, and brand sentiment at the model level now that Siri runs on Gemini.
June 11, 2026

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