Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Even if OpenAI is making $200 billion by 2030, it would still need a staggering $207 billion in funding to stay afloat. 💸

Les élections municipales au Québec en direct en ligne 🗳️ YouTube: youtu.be/s9vGg4GHHyA touTV: ici.tou.tv/evenement-en...

Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline" in a court filing made ahead of another trial that will determine how it will address its monopoly in the advertising technology business. The statement sharply contrasts Google’s recent narrative about the health of search on the web.

It's worth repeating: Google doesn't care if content is AI-generated; it should be reviewed and curated by humans. @methode.bsky.social explained that the creation method doesn't matter as long as "the quality and accuracy of the content" are high.

Splitting SEO and GEO functions doesn’t make sense. There’s very little to gain by separating your classic SEO from your AI/search optimization efforts. Must read by @chris-green.net 👇

🤔 Gary Illyes from Google said at the recent Google Search Live Deep Dive event that you don't need to do GEO, LLMO or anything else to show up in Google AI Overviews, you just need to do normal SEO.

The ability to ask good questions is underrated 👀

Here we go. 👀 Google Search Core Udpate

Les licornes sont de retour à l’événement Interface Québec (ex-WAQ). #interfaceqc

Google I/O 2025 just started; how often will they mention Gemini?

Must read analysis on the State of SEO in 2025. Glen shares trends and insights as the SEO industry navigate changes: - study of 35,000 websites found search drives 43.8% of their traffic, vs 0.1% for LLMs - 5 trillion searches are being made on Google each year (and growing)

Good on ya 🗳️ 🇦🇺 The Australian conservative party’s loss mirrored that of the recent election in Canada where the centre-left Liberal party won a fourth-term despite being well behind in the polls in the leadup to the election.

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

First half marathon of the year. #21kmontreal

US DoJ wins another victory: Google's Ad Tech empire violates antitrust laws. Google could be required to divest its publisher ad server and exchange products. Google faces a reckoning and may have to sell off its Chrome browser in another online search case they've lost. #AdTech

Content-to-commerce is, in theory, a powerful strategy. Food52's recent struggles offer some lessons: be careful raising capital and be mindful of market shifts.

ChatGPT: "We received nearly 45 Billion conversations last year" Google: "Try 5 trillion, son." We've got new numbers from Google (for the first time in 9 years), and some new joint research from SparkToro & Datos to back up (and add detail) to Google's statement 👇

Trump administration is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’. #cybercrime

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

New ROOST initiative — that stands for robust open online safety tool launches at the Paris AI Summit and aims to secure AI with open source safety tools roost.tools

Excellent analysis. This shows why search traffic can be a vanity metric. And why topic authority and expertise matter more than ever.

Nobel Price worthy. Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

If you want people to use your website, so that you can collect more money (or share knowledge, or just exist), then first make it possible for people to use your website. Digital accessibility helps everyone; it's not a fad, it's not an SEO thing.

Twitter/X est un cheval de Troie, il est grand temps que nos journalistes et politiciens cessent de faire profiter cette plateforme.

Wrote a thing. It's pretty neat. searchengineland.com/2024-web-alm...

Don’t be evil? How Google spent years trying to avoid the recent antitrust DOJ suits

Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

Hopefully, our Canadian media do the same and stop legitimizing Elon's disinformation platform.