For the past decade, customer journey design has assumed one thing: the customer is human.  A real person. Messy. Emotional. Overloaded.  Someone who needs clarity, reassurance, and a sense of progress to keep moving forward. But in 2026, that assumption no longer holds. AI agents are starting to influence how people search, compare, choose, and […]

Did you know that duplicate content can hurt your visibility within AI Search? Fabrice Canel and Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft explained that with AI Search, having duplicate content makes it harder for the systems to understand signals which reduces “the likelihood that the correct version will be selected or summarized.” This is not too different […]

Broad match used to mean “more reach, less relevance.” Now it means more reach, with a machine learning layer deciding what relevance looks like. Google has been steadily steering advertisers toward fewer moving parts – fewer match types, fewer manual levers, and more automation.  Making broad match the default for new Search campaigns in July […]

In one of the most consequential regulatory moves yet for the future of search, the European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Google.  At the center of the complaint is Google’s use of publisher content to train and power AI Overviews and other generative AI features – while potentially diverting traffic away from […]

Does it feel like your organic traffic is disappearing? You aren’t imagining it. AI Overviews and answer engines are sidelining classic SEO results.  To stay visible, brands need to adapt – fast. The good news: you don’t need to rewrite your entire SEO playbook. With a few smart tweaks, you can shift from SEO to GEO […]

Learn how Gemini 3 powers Google Search with Generative UI, Nano Banana, and interactive graphics.

As AI chatbots become the go-to tools for travel planning, product recommendations, and more, marketers face a growing challenge: how do you make sure your brand appears in the answers? Semrush believes it has the answer – and it’s launching an award program to spotlight the brands leading the way. The newly announced AI Visibility Awards […]

Google Ads is rolling out new location targeting options for Demand Gen campaigns, bringing them in line with controls already available in Search. What’s new. Advertisers can now explicitly choose between Presence or interest and Presence only when setting up Demand Gen campaigns. The option is available directly in the campaign interface, eliminating the need […]

Pages that rank for Google’s AI Overview “fan-out” queries are much more likely to be cited than those that rank only for the main search query, according to data from Surfer SEO. An analysis of 10,000 keywords found a strong correlation (Spearman 0.77) between how many fan-out queries a page ranks for and its likelihood […]

Google made another change to the JavaScript SEO documentation help document to explain and clarify JavaScript execution on non-200 HTTP status codes. The change. Google wrote, “All pages with a 200 HTTP status code are sent to the rendering queue, no matter whether JavaScript is present on the page.” “If the HTTP status code is […]