Glenn Gabe

@glenngabe.bsky.social

SEO and AI Search Consultant at G-Squared Interactive focused on Google algorithm update recovery and AI Search visibility. Podcast: "SEO From The Front Lines".

Is Discover important for your business? A huge heads-up based on a Google job description. Check the part about becoming a "concierge": β€œLead the design vision & execution to transform Discover into a proactive, hyper-personalized concierge experience that helps users make progress on their goals”

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𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠π₯𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠π₯𝐞 πƒπ’π¬πœπ¨π―πžπ« 𝐒𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐒𝐯𝐞, 𝐑𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚π₯𝐒𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝. This comes from the job posting for Principal, UX, Search Discover. Director+ level. Mountain View, CA or New Yo...

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Focus on Local? Gemini's New Map tool launched around 10/2. Very interesting. I just tested it out: "You can zoom out to cover an entire neighborhood or a small state. When you're happy with the location, tap Explore this area at the bottom of the page, & Gemini adds a Map chip to your prompt."

This Gemini Map feature solved my biggest search frustration in seconds

Imagine exploring neighborhoods without knowing a single street name

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🧡When sites drop for core queries due to major algorithm updates, other queries can show up prominently in GSC since the other core queries are now gone... If think those newish queries are scary or dangerous (and you believe they are truly NEW), I recommend exporting all queries BEFORE the drop.

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In OpenAI's announcement about GPT-6 and Intelligent UI, they mention updates to web search (speed and *quality*): "GPT‑6 also improves the quality of answers that require web search. It makes better decisions about when to look something up & more reliably finds info that supports its answer."

GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone

GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

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Requested damages of $250M+ -> USA Today sues OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training "The lawsuit said that OpenAI copied hundreds of thousands of the outlets articles ​and other materials and used them without ​permission to train the system behind its popular ⁠chatbot ChatGPT."

USA Today sues OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training

USA Today Co and several newspapers it owns sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court ​on Thursday for allegedly infringing their copyrights by β€Œusing their content to train its large language models.

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Yep, I've noticed that as well. During spam updates a lot of site owners reach out about drops, but mixed in have been more about manual actions. E.g. "Pure spam", "Thin content", etc. This is not shocking considering the amount of 'Scaled content abuse' going on. I have covered that heavily over...

Is Google Issuing More Google Search Manual Action Penalties?

Google may be issuing more manual action penalties over the past few weeks than it has over the weeks before that. The increase in manual actions seems to have started several weeks ago, but more so ...

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Barry Schwartz@rustybrick.com Β· 4d ago

Is Google Search issuing more manual actions recently? -via @mariehaynes.bsky.social

If you're a news or media publisher, my presentation next Wednesday at the News and Editorial SEO Summit (NESS) should be right up your alley. I present on Wed, 10/14 at 9:15AM and Ill be covering the most important algorithm updates that publishers should be aware of... newsseo.io

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Focus on ecommerce? UCP update (for Merchant Center) -> By integrating with UCP, you can implement a checkout button on eligible product listings in AI Mode in Google Search and on Gemini. -> Google Merchant Center New UCP Integration Hub

Google Merchant Center UCP Integration Hub

Google Merchant Center is rolling out the UCP integration hub in the United States. The UCP integration hub allows you to onboard to UCP program from your Merchant Center account.

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Whoa, GSC is now telling site owners how many people are adding them as 'Preferred sources'. Just received a flurry of emails from Google. This would be cool to see *IN GSC*. :)

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If there is one post you read today, make it this one from Lily. Excellent article covering the latest doc updates Google rolled out recently, how it signals a potential HUGE update coming tackling the gaming of AI Search, etc. So, will the update be separate, or be part of a broad core update?

Lily Ray 😏@lilyray.nyc · last wk.

Just published my latest piece in Substack! If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve probably also connected the dots: All signs point to a major Google update on the horizon. open.substack.com/pub/lilyrayn...

From the Google Search Live Day 3 recap from John Campbell. With a focus on QUALITY, SPAM, AI, etc. Good stuff. Google on more spam updates: "There have been more spam updates recently because there is so much more new content. The team is now using AI to help catch more of it."

Google Search Central Live Deep Dive, Barcelona - Day 3 Recap | We Are ROAST

Google Search Central Live Deep Dive, Barcelona - Day 3 Recap - A review of the 3rd and final day.

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Will you do this? -> ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you "To start, virtual try-on allows ChatGPT users to upload a selfie or a full-body photo in order to visualize how an article of clothing or an accessory might look on them. This option will appear as a new Try On button..."

ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you | TechCrunch

OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.

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The case was dismissed -> US District Judge Amit Mehta found that no β€œformal bargain” had ever been struck between publishers and Google, which means they cannot prove a claim under antitrust law Penske AI Overviews lawsuit dismissed because β€˜no formal bargain’ struck w/Google h/t @rustybrick.com

Penske AI Overviews lawsuit dismissed because 'no formal bargain' struck with Google

A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Penske Media against Google over the loss of traffic and revenue as a result of AI Overviews.

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Reddit continues to battle AI bots -> Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots "Reddit says RSS has now become a β€œcommon surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform."

Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

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More AI slamming the SERPs, but it might have gotten hit already with the spam update. Facebook Answers yields almost 6M urls indexed and looks to have surged like mad after the August spam update. And then surged heavily recently. But I cannot find any of those urls ranking in the SERPs.

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In theory, this sounds powerful. "Dots can work on their own, Dots are an extension of you, Dots work where you work..." But oh boy :) -> OpenAI announces Dots, always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer, available in ChatGPT on web, mobile, and desktop to Pro users

Introducing dots

Dots by OpenAI are a proactive assistant that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

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I'm in an AIO test where the citations are stacked at the bottom of the answer on desktop. The right side citation bar is gone. And you can click 'Show all' to see a full list of citations at the bottom. IMO, those links look much more enticing down there. :)

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XML sitemaps should contain all canonical urls and each url should contain an accurate lastmod date. I'm with Joost de Valk, many sites get this wrong. Back in the day I called them "dirty sitemaps". Now I just make sure clients understand what should be in those sitemaps and what should be left out

Almost nobody gets XML sitemaps right Β· Joost.blog

I built Sitemap Inspector to keep sitemaps readable. It became a bug finder: Adobe, Anthropic, GOV.UK, Man City, Semrush and X all ship sitemap errors.

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