Andy Broughton

@andybroughton0.bsky.social

A horror soundtrack from a stagnant waterbed.

there's some through line I'm not equipped to articulate from what google was publishing as SEO best practices between like 2017-2022 and what we now call AI and someone who can explain that evolution in plain language will probably be doing all of us a big favor

John Herrman@jwherrman.bsky.social · 2d ago

People have wondered what happens when the web fully rots out from underneath chatbots and search engines. Now we know at least one answer: AI is watching a lot of YouTube nymag.com/intelligence...

If you pay attention to Google's Al interviews - but also responses in chatbots like ChatGPT or on AI search engines like Perplexity - you'll see this all over the place now. You ask a question and the chatbot will generate a response, as expected. In doing so, it will often pull in citations, which it will quote or summarize. A couple of years ago, these were usually websites. Now, your little Al agent will produce information extracted straight from the internet's millions of hours of recorded

Multiple ads for western Wisconsin Republicans airing on twin cities television chirping about how awful Minnesota is and I just want them to know that this is why Green Bay has blown six straight fourth quarter leads.