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If you're hiring or looking for work, ChatGPT wants to be part of the process:

> ChatGPT can now help with more of the job search process, from finding relevant live roles to tailoring a resume for a specific opportunity.

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> When you search for jobs, ChatGPT can surface live listings and freelance opportunities from sources like Indeed, Upwork, Appcast, and across the web. Results are personalized using your experience, skills, and goals to highlight roles that may be a strong fit. You can follow links to apply directly on the source sites.

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> You can now also upload or create a resume in ChatGPT, tailor it to a specific role, and download it in a polished, professional format.

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> Availability:

> • Job search: Available to users in the U.S. on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans

> • Resume formatting: Available in English globally on the web for all plans

If you have job listings online, make sure they're on web pages AI crawlers can access to maximize discoverability!

The May 2026 core update has wrapped - it took almost 12 days (11 days, 21 hours if you're counting). Barry Schwartz was right: he reported extra ranking volatility over the weekend (continued today as well) and predicted it was the 'one last push' before the update completed.

Zoom has a new product called ZoomMate, an "AI teammate" that uses conversational context and connected tools to do agentic stuff. It costs $20/month per user.

gs location changer Chrome extension allows you to change your location in search - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gs-location-changer/blpgcfdpnimjdojecbpagkllfnkajglp?hl=en-US

Isn’t this just an LLMs.txt?

"Organize my files" in Google Drive is out of beta and rolling out to Google Workspace plans.

> Gemini can help you organize your Drive by providing suggestions of where to move loose files based on your organizing structure and strategies. Users can access this view through a dedicated entry point titled “Suggest File Moves” within My Drive and parent folders. The dedicated interface displays recommendations divided into two sections: moving files to existing folders, and creating new folders for related file groupings. End users can review these recommendations before any files are relocated.

Asana acquired a no-code AI workflow platform (StackAI) as they aspire to make Asana "the operating system for human-agent teams"

Google published a new page in Chrome for developers documentation about *llms.txt*, calling it "an emerging convention used to provide machine-readable summary of a website's content, specifically designed for LLMs and AI agents"

Apparently Bloomburg got a leaked sneak peek at how Siri will look in iOS, which is coming mid-September. But the Bloomburg article is gated so we get this ad-heavy CNET rewrite.

• Siri will be based on Gemini technology
• Dynamic Island: a wide, pill-shaped area at the top of iPhone home screen (14 Pro and newer) which is where you can see all the AI stuff at a glance (system alerts, apps running in the background, delivery tracking) and launch Siri
• Search or Ask field where you can choose AI agents from a drop-down menu
• Dedicated Siri app with functions similar to Gemini
• Siri integrated into camera app for search (like Google Lens)
• Many AI queries will get answered on your device, less reliant on cloud & external data centers

Chris Long (co-founder of Nective, an SEO agency) published an "AI Instruction" page on their website (linked from the footer) and found that ChatGPT was using/citing the page within 48 hours. (he also shared receipts) He looked for other agencies that had something similar and found those were getting cited too (SEER is a standout example).

He shared his findings on LinkedIn & the comment thread is great:

• Marie Haynes pointed out that calling it "AI Instructions" could be interpreted as manipulation which goes against the Google spam policies now.
• He & Wil Reynolds both agreed and said they'd test it again without including "instructions" (SEER took their page down for now)
• Someone said it sounds similar to the Grounding Page concept that Hanns Kronenberg came up with and is documenting. He said they're seeing LLMs pick up the info and that the point isn't manipulation/optimization but to prevent entity confusion by making facts explicit, stable, and machine-readable.

No conclusion, just cool to see people testing things out and sharing what they learn. As a human I think this guy's grounding page is a refreshing read: no hype, just facts.

Recent updates to LLMs:

• GPT-5.5 Instant has improved response style and quality, but no longer supports canvas (GPT-5.5 Thinking won't support canvas anymore either)
• Claude Opus 4.8 is here - improvements across benchmarks, and now a more effective collaborator, especially in its honesty
• Dynamic workflows now available in Claude Code - it's a new feature available in research preview so Claude can run bigger tasks by planning the work and running hundreds of parallel subagents in one session
• Claude.ai and Claude Cowork now have an effort controller. Higher effort = more, deeper thinking. Lower effort = faster answers.
• Perplexity Computer is now available inside Microsoft Office apps

Ahrefs shared an AI Search Benchmark Report (PDF) with findings from 13 individual studies they conducted in Q4 2025 and Q1 2026. Highlights:

• AI Overviews appear for 21% of all keywords, much more often on long, informational queries.
• Single-word queries trigger AIOs 9.5% of the time; queries with 7+ words hit 46.4%.
• AI Mode & AI Overviews agree in substance, but cite different sources: Only 13.7% URL overlap, yet they reach the same conclusion 86% of the time.
• 28% of ChatGPT’s top-cited pages have zero organic keywords. You still have a chance of visibility in ChatGPT even without traditional ranking performance.
• Only 37.9% of cited URLs in AIO rank in the top 10, down from about 76% in Ahrefs’ earlier study.
• Brand mentions don’t reliably earn links: When Ahrefs is mentioned in AI responses, it gets linked only 28% of the time overall.
• YouTube mentions had the strongest correlation with AI brand visibility across ChatGPT, AI Mode, and AI Overviews.
• AIO citations have near-zero correlation with content length; 53.4% of cited pages were under 1,000 words.
• For top-of-funnel ChatGPT queries, “Best X” blog lists made up 43.8% of source URLs.
• AIO are global & uneven: Indonesia leads with 37.2% AIO coverage (U.S. rate is 20.5%)
• Position #1 results saw a 58% CTR reduction when AIOs were present; position #10 lost 19.4%.
• ChatGPT has about 12% of Google’s search volume, but Google sends 190x more traffic to websites.
• Most AI tools repeated fake brand claims planted online; ChatGPT performed better, Claude avoided hallucinating but missed the official site.
• AIOs are unstable in wording, stable in meaning: They changed between observations 70% of the time, but their core message stayed highly consistent.

Google announced AI performance insights coming to Merchant Center. The new report will include:

• Share of voice - visibility vs similar brands in both AI Search results and Gemini
• Shopping funnel performance - discovery, evaluation, purchase
• Popular product search terms & your SOV for them
• Popular product attributes in search (things like color, style, material)

Will roll out in the U.S., Canada, Australia, India, and New Zealand "in the coming months"

I hate AI slop, so I wrote a list of things that are obvious AI slop (writing) to me. I also built a free tool called FishFry.ai that helps you create a Claude plugin/skill that writes like you. Here’s the AI slop article: https://momenticmarketing.com/blog/avoid-ai-slop

Google announced "Preferred Sources" in AIO & AI Mode - if users add favorite sources under source preferences in Search personalization settings, they will see a 'Preferred' label on those citation links in AI Search results. Time to start adding those "Add us as a preferred source on Google" direct links on your website if you haven't already done so!

The blog has a bunch of examples and there's documentation too.

If you have Google Drive sources in an NotebookLM notebook, they will automatically sync now - super convenient!

YouTube is adding more prominent AI labels and rolling out automatic AI detection:

• *For Long-form Videos:*The label will now appear directly below the video player, above the description.
• *For Shorts:*The label will appear as an overlay on the video itself.

If you think your content was incorrectly labeled as AI-generated you can dispute it.

Wow, there's yet another data logging error in the GSC Discover performance report on May 21 (they had one on May 7/8 this year too). Once again, Google says it's just a data logging error, not an actual decrease in Discover clicks/impressions.

Similar web shared data showing ChatGPT is showing more prominent links in answers since May 7, resulting in 150% more referral visits (comparing the week post 5/7 to the week previous). So if you notice a corresponding bump in ChatGPT referral traffic to your site in the time range, keep in mind it might be partly due to this trend and not necessarily because of something you did.

Reportedly DuckDuckGo is getting more users since Google I/O last week. TechCrunch says DDG app installs in the U.S. are up 18% week over week, and 9to5Mac says DDG installs on iPhone specifically are up 33% WoW.

The appeal seems to be how DDG makes it easy to toggle AI on/off. If this trend sticks it's a good reminder to check how your search results look in there too, if it's a search engine your audience is likely to use.

DDG is still only 1.74% of total U.S. search engine share according to statcounter as of the end of April - will be interesting to see if that goes up when their May data is released.

The Bot Analytics dashboard in MS Clarity got an update:

• New metrics & high-level insights

◦ AI bot requests (total number of requests from AI crawlers and automated systems)

◦ AI bot traffic share (% of total site request volume)

◦ Pages crawled (% of total pages accessed by bots)

◦ Total requests overview for unified activity tracking

• Request status visibility

◦ Breakdown of bot requests by status: successful, redirected, and unsuccessful

◦ Trendlines added to request status and key metric cards

◦ Click-to-filter from request status for deeper analysis

• Expanded exploration & filtering

◦ Domain-level and path-level filtering across all bot analytics views

◦ Click-to-filter support for path requests and request status

◦ Improved interactivity across dashboard tables and metric cards

• Content type & table improvements

◦ New Content Type card aggregating request distribution by content type

◦ Removal of content type from Path Requests table for cleaner structure

◦ Refactored Path Requests view with improved aggregation and consistency

• Expanded CDN support

◦ New integrations for Akamai and Azure Front Door (AFD)

◦ Integrations for non-enterprise Cloudflare plans, including free, pro, and business.

Google is now showing how many times a photo or video was viewed in your Google Business Profile. This is helpful because you can see which ones are the most popular (assuming you have a bunch that were uploaded around the same time) and then lean into what people are gravitating towards.

Bing launched a new version of Bing Image Search, describing it as an AI-guided experience that organizes image results to reduce overwhelm and make it easier to find what you want.

• Use the "New Version" toggle in Bing Image Search to try it out
• Instead of a wall of thumbnails you get grouped & labeled sections with short descriptions

Seems pretty helpful to me!

People are sharing instances of not being able to Google basic words like "disregard", "delete," and "ignore" because they're being misinterpreted by AI as commands. I just got this glitchy result so apparently it's not all fixed yet.

Cloudflare made a tool that checks if a website is AI agent-friendly. It gives a detailed breakdown and you can customize the scan too.