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Google's OKF Standard: The New AI Agent Protocol No One's Talking About
September 18, 2026·6 min read

Google's OKF Standard: The New AI Agent Protocol No One's Talking About

Google shipped the Open Knowledge Format on June 12 with zero fanfare. What the spec contains, the MCP and llms.txt map, and an honest read on the SEO angle.

Google May 2026 Core Update Retrospective: 60 Days Later
September 18, 2026·8 min read

Google May 2026 Core Update Retrospective: 60 Days Later

The May 2026 core update wrapped June 2. Sixty days of data later: the intent reset, the missing recoveries, and the AI Overviews subplot.

Ahrefs Bot Analytics Launched: How to Read the AI Crawler Data
September 18, 2026·8 min read

Ahrefs Bot Analytics Launched: How to Read the AI Crawler Data

Ahrefs shipped Bot Analytics in April. What the four reports actually tell you, the killer 23x conversion stat, and how to read the crawl-to-referral gap.

The Perplexity User Migration: Where Founders Are Going Instead
October 30, 2026·8 min read

The Perplexity User Migration: Where Founders Are Going Instead

Perplexity's US mobile DAU fell 65% in six months. Here's where the users actually went, by name, with the data behind each destination and the founder read.

Semrush Enterprise AIO: The AEO Toolkit War Is On
October 30, 2026·7 min read

Semrush Enterprise AIO: The AEO Toolkit War Is On

Adobe paid $1.9B for Semrush, and Enterprise AIO is the trophy. What it does well, where the community is angry, and how challengers should read the moment.

Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Business Adoption: The Ranking Implications
October 30, 2026·8 min read

Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Business Adoption: The Ranking Implications

Ramp's June data has Anthropic at 41% of US businesses vs OpenAI's 39.5%. What the enterprise overtake means for AI citation strategy in the second half of 2026.

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here: The AI Search Implications
September 18, 2026·6 min read

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here: The AI Search Implications

Claude Sonnet 5 shipped June 30 with an agentic-search benchmark at the center of the launch. What it means for citations, crawlers, and your docs.

Gemini 3 Is Live: What It Means for SEO and AEO
September 18, 2026·8 min read

Gemini 3 Is Live: What It Means for SEO and AEO

Gemini 3 now runs AI Overviews for 2.5 billion users, and top-10 rankings' citation share fell from 76% to 38%. What shipped, and what to do this week.

Gemini Omni Flash: The Multimodal Model That Changes Citation Sources
July 9, 2026·7 min read

Gemini Omni Flash: The Multimodal Model That Changes Citation Sources

Google shipped Omni Flash with native audio on June 30. It's a generation model, but the AEO signal about video and audio citations is loud.

Google AI Mode Is Here: What SaaS Founders Need to Do Now
September 18, 2026·8 min read

Google AI Mode Is Here: What SaaS Founders Need to Do Now

Google AI Mode just crossed 1 billion users and the UK forced its first publisher opt-out. Here's what changed for SaaS visibility and what to do this week.

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