Industry4 min
Google gives sites a toggle and insights for AI answers
Global rollout adds opt-out for AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover, plus an insights report. Google says it isn’t a ranking signal outside those features.
Industry news
What changed in search this week.
Algorithm changes, official announcements, regulatory rulings and new measurement studies. Three times a week, with the primary source linked on every item.
Every source is fetched before publication, and anything that does not resolve is dropped along with its story. Where a post was drafted with AI assistance, it says so on the post. For the long-form analysis behind the week’s reporting, read the journal.
Company news
What changed at LumiRank: client results, method notes, and what the work looks like from inside the studio.
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Osoba Renos: search clicks up 56.1% quarter over quarter
A Toronto contractor that ranked for its own name and almost nothing else now holds page one for the non-branded renovation queries its customers actually type.
Company5 min
What we check before we call a site AI-visible
Six named crawlers have to be fetching a site before we will say it is reachable by answer engines. Here is the check, and what it caught on two client builds.