Why did I think 11pm was a great time to start exploring setting up a Github repository?

Yesterday I announced I'm re-starting my consultancy after a long break and back to being my own boss www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Agentic Commerce's biggest hurdle is a human problem... yes, it's often us.... substack.com/@davidiwanow...

Google AI Mode and AI Overviews officially get preferred sources labels, a new carousel and the highly cited labels expands in search www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-pr... #google #googlepreferredsources #googleaimode #googleaioverviews #ai #googlesearch #googleseo

Ooh, spicy. "A Google engineer has been arrested for allegedly using his employer's secret search trend data to win $1.2mn on Polymarket as landmark case tests whether prediction markets are subject to the same rules as Wall Street." www.euronews.com/business/202...

Do LLMs use schema? I did an experiment that was widely misunderstood, so I’ve taken the time to write up all of the detail on the theory and look at available evidence. This is the new nuanced and long-form answer on my Substack. 🤓 open.substack.com/pub/markwill...

What absolute bullshit... should be demonize...

Uber has delivered 0 useful consumer features since the burrito taxi. This isn't an AI problem, this is a you don't need to add more features the platform is already feature complete problem.

Google Ask Advisor brings together Ads Advisor and Analytics Advisor into one AI-agent advisor www.seroundtable.com/google-ask-a... #google #googleads #googleanalytics #googlemerchantcenter #gml

The real value in AI is the non state of the art models. Here's the same task with the new Gemini 3.5 vs some cheaper GPTs. Very similar quality, 75% faster and 98% less expensive!

Google AI mode on an image search on Hong Kong's Victoria Peak Tram offered an interesting and contextually relevant list of sample flights from my location to Hong Kong. But the link points back to Google Flights results for now but I assume we will see at least some these being ads soon

Google is testing Shopping ads, Business Agent for Leads and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for AI Mode www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo... #googleads #google #gml

The medical disclaimers if a certain brand is mentioned in the AI overviews that were activated by Google Lens seems to be new. I'm curious on is this supplied by the brands or by Google and based on this trigger I assume it's possible that Google can report on brand level brand mentions...

Three independent sources said the same thing: the GEO playbook doesn't work. The frameworks keep selling. New on The Inference: Mt Stupid has a pricing page. 🔗👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/theinfer...

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Check out the @majestic.com SEO podcast for our discussion on how to speak at SEO conference, for tips on how to pitch, how to prep and how to put together a great deck: blog.majestic.com/training/how...

Researching, Campaigning, and Supporting Communities to build HOPE and oppose far-right extremism. hopenothate.org.uk

Looks like foreigners don't want to risk being imprisoned by ICE just for a chance to see a soccer game.

"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

New podcast episode! In this episode I share about Gemini in Chrome, how I built a plant journal with Antigravity, UCP, WebMCP, WordPress' EmDash, Shopify's AI Toolkit, Andrej Karpathy's autoresearch and more. youtu.be/CmhzPhGGe1o

WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great

OpenAI is halting its Stargate UK scheme. They are using the energy crisis as a smokescreen IMO. Either huge costs and red tape in the UK just don't make it a good deal, or the economics of AI, globally, is collapsing. Probably both.

American scientists and astronauts are doing incredible things! 🚀 But Trump wants to cut NASA by 23%! No way. I'm betting on American innovation—and it's worth investing in.

A jar of Nutella floating in NASA's Artemis Orion capsule went viral as the perfect accidental ad for the chocolate spread

Nutella being the number 1 trending topic on this app healed something in me on this news day

💰 Chrome’s New Shopping Classifier - Research by Olivier de Segonzac & @dejanseo.bsky.social of shopping classifier model: "If Chrome can’t identify your page as a shopping page from the first ~450 words of visible content, your users won’t see commerce features" Read: dejan.ai/blog/google-...

Don't miss our founder, @ryanjones.bsky.social speaking at SEO week this month. Use code SEO-JONES to save some money too!

Seems Microsoft is moving in the right direction on AI disclosure... this image was created in ChatGPT and cropped to size in Paintbrush but it kept the AI watermark. support.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

New episode of our Beers & SEO with Barry and @stevewb.bsky.social is out now! In this one we're joined by Luke Halls, Head of SEO at The Times, and we dive into SEO for paywalled sites, Google Discover, Optimising headlines, chasing trends, and much more! Link to the pod: plinkhq.com/i/1860544621

Google Ads expands loyalty program features www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-e... #googleads

A while back, I went down a rabbit hole using the AlsoAsked API I was actually building an AI content workflow, but I had a feeling in the back of my head, “What if answering PAA questions drives better results?” 🧵 1/6

Not sure if you read my substack from last month about what i learnt running and attending meetups davidiwanow.substack.com/p/what-i-hav...

Sanja Markovic explains that SEO reveals what users search for, while UX research explains why they behave a certain way, and that integrating both provides you with a more informed and effective content strategy. maj.to/4ahZPJB

New article posted a bit after 7pm and already getting initial organic impressions 4 hours later... who still says it takes months to get new content indexed....

Photo from one of my NY trips

Meta unveiling big changes to Threads, Instagram, and Facebook today. Zuckerberg is abandoning fact checkers in favor of an X inspired Community Notes system in a move to restore “free expression” and reduce moderation mistakes www.theverge.com/2025/1/7/243...

Instead of rotting in prison, the person who instigated a violent insurrection on the Capitol will be president. Our institutions have failed. Never forget what he did.

4 years ago Trump incited a deadly riot on our Capitol. He tries to tell you what you saw with your own eyes wasn't real, his associates deleted texts and told lies for him. The fact remains today- Donald Trump is a weak, cowardly traitor to our country.

Today is January 6, the anniversary of the felon/GOP’s violent insurrection trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 election! We remember 140 officers who were injured & those who lost their lives due to the attack on the Capitol! Hold all involved in the insurrection accountable!

Donald Trump railed against the 2020 election results on a stage near the White House four years ago, and his supporters later stormed the Capitol. We analyzed how and when the mob nearly came face to face with Congress. Revisit our 2021 investigation.

Proud to have FINALLY launched my first WordPress plugin. Automagically speed up your images and optimize their markup via your edge provider of choice (Cloudflare / Accelerated Domains / Imgix, etc). wordpress.org/plugins/edge...

Want to know what content to create? Read the comments under your competitors' social posts. People ask questions there they're also asking on Google.

🎉 Hey @jono.id you got a new image for the new year. congrats! Old Picture for reference (showing NOT Jono): x.com/Johanstormar... ps: This is the awesome newsletter Jono is sending monthly (now without an image not showing his face): www.sistrix.com/newsletter/t...

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perhaps we would do well to replace the term "AI-enabled" with "spies on you" "An oven that spies on you? Why not?"

ALERT: Severe Weather Emergency Protocol has been activated ❄️ If you see someone in need, use StreetLink to alert local services. Your vigilance could save a life. www.streetlink.org.uk

OpenAI is completely screwed. If they're losing money on $200/month, they're losing it on $20/month and their real costs are so much higher than they can ever get anyone to pay. A pale horse. techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/o...

Seems that not everyone appreciated this video I posted of Zurich trams? youtube.com/shorts/GWGv8...

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