AI Search

Why Branded Search Volume Is the Leading Indicator Nobody Is Reporting On

92% of marketers plan to optimise for AI search. Only 40.6% currently do (Omnibound, 2026). Somewhere inside that gap sits a metric most teams already have access to and almost never open: branded .....

Sep 27, 2026

What Marketers Need to Change to Make AI Work for Engagement

AI redefined what counts as engagement, and most measurement systems have not caught up. Search referral traffic from LLMs has tripled over the past year. Organic click-through rates drop by up to .....

Sep 25, 2026

Why every company needs an AI visibility dashboard

Marketing teams have spent two decades building dashboards for search. Rankings, impressions, click-through rate, share of voice on the SERP: all measurable, all reported weekly, all defensible in .....

Sep 24, 2026

Google DeepMind is testing an AI model that could replace search ranking as we know it

Google DeepMind has published research on a system called Autoregressive Ranking, built to replace the two-stage architecture that has powered search ranking for years. The paper is a collaboration.....

Sep 17, 2026

Search Console can now show you your AI Overview impressions. Here’s what that actually means.

Google finished rolling out its generative AI performance reports in Search Console to every website worldwide as of 31 August 2026. If you haven’t checked your dashboard yet, there’s a.....

Sep 02, 2026

Top Stories in AI Overviews Changes the SEO Game for Publishers and Brands

Google has started rolling out Top Stories inside AI Overviews for eligible searches, initially on mobile in the United States. At first glance, it looks like a relatively small UI update.   I.....

Aug 06, 2026

ChatGPT’s Thinking Mode Cites Different Brands

A study published by Semrush, conducted in collaboration with growth strategist Kevin Indig, has produced one of the most practically significant findings in AI search visibility research to date. .....

Jul 02, 2026

Google’s VP of Search on What Publishers Need to Do to Stay Visible in AI Search

Google’s VP of Search, Liz Reid, gave an interview recently in which she addressed the question publishers have been asking for the past 18 months: what do you need to do differently to remai.....

Jun 29, 2026

68% of Google Searches Now End Without a Click

A new study from SparkToro, based on Similarweb clickstream data covering January through April 2026, puts a precise figure on a trend that most search practitioners have felt for some time. In the.....

Jun 10, 2026