Glenn Gabe

Glenn Gabe

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Interesting case study and backs what @lilyraynyc published about the evolving situation with self-serving listicles -> Self-Promotional Content Works — Until It Backfires (AI SEO Experiment)

Some takeaways:
*When AI cited a conference-promoting page, it still skipped that

Reddit about their fight against AI spam. I wonder if spamming for "inauthentic mentions" is part of this :) -> How We’re Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era

"We look at signals right when an account is created to stop suspicious actors before they ever get the chance to

"In other words, Amazon isn’t completely pulling the plug, but the service is very much on life support" -> Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30th "Over time, the relationship between Mechanical Turk and AI models grew even more complicated. In

News publishers heads-up -> Some US voters are using AI tools as nonpartisan researchers, seeing them as a viable alternative to traditional news coverage, voter guides, and social media

"It was probably only a matter of time before voters began to use artificial intelligence

Oh boy -> Researchers document JadePuffer, the first known “agentic ransomware”, which adapts in real time and retries steps to execute an end-to-end extortion operation www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jadepuffer-ransomware-used-ai-agent-to-automate-entire-attack/

Fraudulent DMCA Takedowns is a hot topic now and it seems many people that are new to the topic of DMCA takedowns overall. Here's another interesting fact about takedowns. When a url is taken down, it looks like it's removed from the index (since it's removed from the SERPs), but if you inspect the url in GSC, it's actually indexed. Just another confusing situation for site owners that might be under attack. If you miss the email from Google (if one arrives), you may not realize it's gone from the SERPs...

Fraudulent DMCA Takedowns is a hot topic now and it seems many people that are new to the topic of DMCA takedowns overall. Here's another interesting fact about takedowns. When a url is taken down, it looks like it's removed from the index (since it's removed from the SERPs), but if you inspect the url in GSC, it's actually indexed. Just another confusing situation for site owners that might be under attack. If you miss the email from Google (if one arrives), you may not realize it's gone from the SERPs...

I missed this earlier in the week from @rustybrick. More AI content in ads via Gemini. This time AdSense ad intents -> Google AdSense Ad Intents To Add AI-Gemini-Generated Content

Google announced, "When a user interacts with an ad intent on your page, the dialog contains content generated by Gemini in addition to display ads."
seroundtable.com/google-adsense…

Makes sense... "Google Maps could place your food order while you're already driving to pick it up." -> Google Maps may soon expand beyond restaurant suggestions to actually placing your order androidauthority.com/google-maps-fo…

"Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example" -> At a town hall, Mark Zuckerberg said Meta's AI agent development has not accelerated as expected and its reorganization was not as “clean” as it could have been Soul-crushing gulag?? Oof. "He also apparently said that the perceived upside of the new AI-focused company structure hadn’t “come to fruition yet,” although he said that he believed the company would begin to see improvements from its AI investments during the next three to six months. Several other investigative reports have depicted Meta’s months-old AI unit as a soul-crushing gulag, according to some of the engineers assigned to it."

This is great. "I should probably get a check (from Google)... Just to be nice... just for your own Karma..." -> Jennifer Lopez says Google owes her a check over viral Versace look which led to the creation of Google Images
usatoday.com/story/entertai…

Here's the video:
youtube.com/watch?v=k49RnA…

Yikes, $4.7B -> Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine *Europe’s top court has upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. *In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android’s mobile dominance. *Google has been appealing the ruling through the EU court system. But the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Europe’s top court, dismissed Google’s appeal.

Cloudflare evolves its AI bot blocking options -> Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

"We’re launching the ability to manage AI traffic based on three major use cases: Search, Agent, and Training crawlers. With these new options, our customers can more finely tune how they manage AI bot traffic — including customers on our Free tier."

New defaults start on 9/15:
"On September 15, 2026, we’ll be setting new defaults for each of these three classifications. For all new domains onboarding to Cloudflare, the categories of Training and Agent will be blocked by default on the pages that display ads, while Search will remain allowed by default."
blog.cloudflare.com/content-indepe…

Cloudflare evolves its AI bot blocking options -> Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers "We’re launching the ability to manage AI traffic based on three major use cases: Search, Agent, and Training crawlers. With these new options, our customers can more finely tune how they manage AI bot traffic — including customers on our Free tier." New defaults start on 9/15: "On September 15, 2026, we’ll be setting new defaults for each of these three classifications. For all new domains onboarding to Cloudflare, the categories of Training and Agent will be blocked by default on the pages that display ads, while Search will remain allowed by default." blog.cloudflare.com/content-indepe…

Gemini Spark (its 24/7 agent) gets some new features -> Gemini Spark now supports 3rd-party apps, including MCP, adds real-time topic updates

"At the same time, Google is rolling out Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. At the bottom of gemini.google.com/apps, you can enter a custom app link to get started."

"Google also announced the ability for Gemini Spark to “intelligently track topics and react to events in real time.”
9to5google.com/2026/06/30/gem…

Gemini Spark (its 24/7 agent) gets some new features -> Gemini Spark now supports 3rd-party apps, including MCP, adds real-time topic updates "At the same time, Google is rolling out Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. At the bottom of gemini.google.com/apps, you can enter a custom app link to get started." "Google also announced the ability for Gemini Spark to “intelligently track topics and react to events in real time.” 9to5google.com/2026/06/30/gem…

Nano Banana 2 Lite -> Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite, a low cost text-to-image model that delivers outputs in four seconds, and rolls out Gemini Omni Flash to developers

Heads-up, I'm seeing some huge surges in Bing's AI Performance reporting starting right on June 1st. I'm seeing this across many accounts. I'll ping Bing about this, but it's worth taking a look at your own reporting soon. There may be some interesting findings. Also, the new compare functionality in BWT for the AI reporting will come in handy for checking the surge in grounding queries and pages...

Heads-up, I'm seeing some huge surges in Bing's AI Performance reporting starting right on June 1st. I'm seeing this across many accounts. I'll ping Bing about this, but it's worth taking a look at your own reporting soon. There may be some interesting findings. Also, the new compare functionality in BWT for the AI reporting will come in handy for checking the surge in grounding queries and pages...

It's back now, but what a pain in the butt. Press Gazette hit with another BS DMCA takedown -> Spurious copyright claim sees second Press Gazette story removed from Google search And the "original" article on Reddit has now been removed. There have been many reports of DMCA negative SEO examples... I think Google needs to get this under control, and soon.

The impact of vibe coding. The # of games released surge like crazy as job losses also surge -> AI and vibe coding fuel a surge in game releases; ATTN Economy says 181K mobile games launched in six months to May, up 118% on iOS and 73% on Android YoY "Global data from research company ATTN Economy shows that 181,000 games were released in the six months to May, 43,500 on iOS and 137,000 on Android — increases of 118 per cent and 73 per cent respectively year on year. This increase has come alongside some significant job losses in the gaming industry."

Personal Intelligence + Nano Banana is now available to all eligible Gemini users in the US (via Personal Intelligence and connecting Google Photos) "Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S. can experience deeply personalized image generation in Gemini for free. We’re connecting Personal Intelligence with Nano Banana and Google Photos, so your creations can easily reflect your taste and lifestyle, gleaned from your connected Google apps."

Agent Bill. Strange times ahead :) -> Sen. Mark Warner to Unveil AI Agent Bill "His new bill incorporates the duty of loyalty principle, which aims to enable fair marketplaces for users, according to the legislative aide. For example, the bill would prevent a travel booking agent from directing a user to book at Hilton hotels because of a hidden partnership with that chain. Similarly, it would prevent large platforms like Amazon and Airbnb from blocking outside agents from accessing their websites, though it allows them to set privacy and security standards."

I subscribe to The Information. It contains top-notch reporting on the tech industry. It's a super-reputable news source. Which is why I thought it was odd to see the headline, "How to use Google Gemini to analyze marketing campaigns"... I was like, that's weird for The Information. Who wrote that??

Yep, it's a sponsored post without much disclosure there. It's indexable and ranking already. And this is the kicker, no AI Overview. Instead, there's a beautiful featured snippet with a bulleted list. I'm not saying Google is treating the site or query differently, but just an interesting observation. :)

I subscribe to The Information. It contains top-notch reporting on the tech industry. It's a super-reputable news source. Which is why I thought it was odd to see the headline, "How to use Google Gemini to analyze marketing campaigns"... I was like, that's weird for The Information. Who wrote that?? Yep, it's a sponsored post without much disclosure there. It's indexable and ranking already. And this is the kicker, no AI Overview. Instead, there's a beautiful featured snippet with a bulleted list. I'm not saying Google is treating the site or query differently, but just an interesting observation. :)