Here’s a bitter but amusing article about Elon Musk‘s failed/false promises mashable.com/article/elon...

A movie that’s not explicitly an Xmas movie but is a better Xmas movie than almost all of them.

For those who are curious, here’s a link to the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled in the US but aired in Canada last night. www.thereset.news/p/breaking-h...

From @nearmedia.bsky.social: ChatGPT local results with Knowledge Panels. www.nearmedia.co/chatgpt-loca...

One of the reasons for Gemini's recent popularity vs. ChatGPT is Nano Banana and the fact that Gemini was much faster at images than ChatGPT. That has changed dramatically with the release of upgraded image creation. openai.com/index/new-ch...

Haven't written a Google review in a while. Wrote one tonight and got their reward-points screen, which I won't be manipulated by and laugh in the face of ...

Saw this is my credit card bill today, which is Amazon Prime fee plus tax. It’s incredible that it has become so expensive over the years.

Google is apparently bringing more visual local results to Gemini (per @rustybrick.com and a Twitter post now deleted). However, Gemini is way too slow to take usage from Google proper or AI Mode.

The latest @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: Got Moats?, Google AI Training Probe, Agencies Are 'OK,' SMBs Are Social www.nearmedia.co/got-moats-go...

When I see sponsored content I almost always bounce without reading it.

Terrific podcast discussion with Jes Scholtz about the future of search, SEO and AI. Lots of strategic and very tactical advice via @nearmedia.bsky.social www.nearmedia.co/ep-234-p-1-g...

Google keeps making me sign in again and again. So annoying.

All data captured by Meta AI chats will now be used for ad targeting. No opt-out in the US. Yet more confirmation the company is a bad actor. techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/m...

The latest @nearmediaco newsletter: ChatGPT 'Code Red', Dynamic SERP, Local AI Visibility, AI Shopping on the Rise www.nearmedia.co/chatgpt-code...

It's pretty clear that most of these recent RTO orders are layoffs in disguise (e.g., Amazon). Same with the latest Instagram 5-days a week RTO policy. sfist.com/2025/12/01/i...

Watching Stranger Things season 5, first four episodes. Enjoying it but there is a ton of stuff that doesn’t make any sense.

ChatGPT shopping research is going to be widely used and pretty compelling to consumers. Google will seek to match it. openai.com/index/chatgp...

One clear advantage Gemini/Nano Banana has over ChatGPT image creation is speed.

Enough with the pronouns! The Internet and social media in particular have destroyed headline writing

ChatGPT piloting collaboration/group chat. Could be quite useful and very differentiated from Gemini (until they copy the feature). openai.com/index/group-...

The backlash against this AI wearable bodes ill for OpenAI's hardware plans. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Turns out people can no longer tell AI generated music from that created by humans. www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-gene...

The latest @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: Local Search Ranking Factors, Google AI Local Inventory Calls, Social Does Double Duty, Yelp's Numbers. www.nearmedia.co/lsrf-local-i...

Review gating alive and well. Request to review followed general text inquiry into my level of satisfaction during my hotel stay.

Join @nearmedia.bsky.social with @davidmihm.bsky.social, @gsterling.bsky.social as we pick Darren Shaw of @whitespark.ca 's brain about the ins and the outs of the 2026 Local Search Ranking Survey. www.nearmedia.co/ep-231-local...

Our most recent @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: G-Maps AI Makeover, Google Unbowed, Hidden Decision Engines, CTRs Down Again www.nearmedia.co/g-maps-ai-ma...

The new Google "sponsored results" layout is designed to confuse users and generate more clicks. It's working www.seroundtable.com/googles-ad-l...

Is trust in AI starting to slip? In Dialog's initial consumer survey last year: ✨ 61% said that they believed AI results were trustworthy ✨ 31% said they trusted them "sometimes" ✨ 7% don't trust AI results But our newest survey shows a big shift. Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...?

Local Search/SEO doesn't get enough respect. I was on two calls this week where people referred to it as a "niche." It's not. Read more 👇 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Looking forward to this SMX session with @gsterling.bsky.social on "Coffee Talk: What's new in local search" - always have fun doing a live talk with Greg and Local Search is so much fun searchengineland.com/smx/next/age...

The latest @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: Apple Map Ads, LSA's 'Economic Rents,' Yelp's Uphill Battle, it's AI for B2B buyers. www.nearmedia.co/apple-map-ad...

Google has first $100B quarter. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/a...

Would you pay $10 per month for Google Home Premium (Gemini)? Me: no.

The online disinformation is out of control. Grokipedia is Wikipedia's evil twin: "if you only knew the power of the dark side." www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Trying to determine what degree of overlap exists between "web search" results in ChatGPT Atlas Browser and Google. It's not 1:1 but there's a high degree of overlap.

Totally missed this (h/t @rustybrick.com). Google search inside Atlas. Also results for the same query nearly identical minus the ads and the features (local pack, forum pack).

Here's yesterday's @nearmedia.bsky.social newsletter: ChatGPT Local Pack, Atlas Browser, Local Product Inventory, Rapid Response www.nearmedia.co/chatgpt-loca...

Slide from a deck I presented on local in a webinar with ShopLocal in 2006.

Saw this on a Google job posting today: "Experience managing ambiguous programs under pressure with tight timelines and competing priorities."

So far I would say the Atlas browser offers a better version of the ChatGPT experience; it's more complete. However it doesn't support Chrome extensions apparently.

ChatGPT launches its long awaited browser Atlas. openai.com/index/introd...

The most recent Dialog (Local + AI) newsletter: Local Apps on ChaGPT, AI Fears, Square Assistant, GDP AI, Search Fragmentation. www.localdialog.com/local-apps-o...

Great new interview with me and @mikeblumenthal.bsky.social talking to Ana Martinez, CTO of Uberall on their experience integrating AI more deeply into the company's workflows and customer-facing products. Part 1 of 2. www.nearmedia.co/ep-227-insid...

Building ChatGPT agents with drag and drop functionality.

It appears a much better local search experience is coming to ChatGPT via embedded third party apps.

Now 800M+ weekly ChatGPT users.

Just downloaded iOS 26 and kind of don’t like it.

The question of whether Trump is suffering from dementia is a legitimate discussion topic (he claimed Biden had dementia all the time). Interesting that Google, which doesn't want to draw Trump's ire, is blocking an AI Overview on the topic. www.thedailybeast.com/google-accus...

Incredibly cowardly and more about obsequious capitulation and gaining favor than reflective of the legal merits of the case. Google has fallen very very far from where it once was (or at least aspired to).

For years, people assumed that their devices were listening and that their conversations were being used for ad targeting. Companies denied that. Now it's coming true. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...?