Live AI search news feed
Live from Momentic Studio, this news feed is curated by the Momentic team so you can stay up to date on AI search, SEO, GEO, AEO, AI search, frontier AI models, and relevant tools.
New Google Labs experiment: Mixboard, "an AI-powered concepting board that helps you explore, expand, and refine your ideas". Use cases are myriad:
- World-building for a story/game
- Planning photo shoot
- Moodboard for a fashion collection
- Redecorating a space
- Landscaping planning
- Event planning
- Product ideation
- Branding design
- Ad campaign visualizing
- Practically any creative visual project you can think of!
Great guide to marketing on Reddit, but only for those willing to invest substantial time and effort in doing it the smart way.
Really enjoying the (free) Impolighthouse tool that audits your website like Lighthouse & gives you a summary of what's hurting performance, with the spice level of your choice - Irritated (Default) definitely resonates.
Perplexity has a new Email Assistant that connects with Gmail and Outlook - currently only available for Perplexity Max subscribers.
Gemini is now integrated with Google TV and here's why it matters for search: viewers will be able to conversationally search with Gemini on their TV and it will provide "helpful answers with supporting YouTube videos, letting you dive deep right on your TV"
Google plans to expand Gemini capabilities on TV, as well as the quantity of different TV models that come with Google TV.
Google published a Startup technical guide for building agents on Google Cloud - it's a 60+ page PDF with the option to listen to a podcast version (includes the prompt used in NotebookLM to make the audio).
I don't have an Android phone so wasn't able to see this for myself, but apparently Google Chrome on Android can turn any webpage into a podcast-style conversational audio overview. Seems like a big accessibility improvement since the regular Read Aloud feature was a rather flat, mechanical voice reading the page text verbatim.
The August Spam update ended overnight at 00:00 - it lasted 26 days which is longer than average (the last spam update in Dec. '24 only took 7 days, and the last core update in June of this year took 16 days).
If you've noticed GSC impressions fall off a cliff recently, you're not alone:
- Most websites are seeing a significant drop in impressions since Google disallowed the num=100 parameter
- Google finally commented on this change, saying "The use of this URL parameter is not something that we formally support."
It seems like they're implying that since they never officially supported the parameter, they didn't really take anything away. Anyway, it's helpful to understand why impressions data changed in GSC in case you need to explain it to stakeholders.
Google is rolling out some significant AI-powered Chrome updates:
- Gemini in Chrome - chat with Gemini about any web page you have open (rollout starts today)
- Agentic capabilities - tell Gemini in Chrome to do stuff for you, like buy groceries (in the coming months)
- Context across tabs - Gemini can help you compare/summarize info from all your open tabs
- Find a page you visited but can't remember - Describe to Gemini the page you want to revisit (I will definitely use this)
- Works with apps too - from any web page, chat with Gemini to do stuff in Google apps like Calendar, Maps, YT
- More omni in the omnibox - AI Mode is coming to the Chrome address bar (omnibox) so you can bypass the traditional SERP more easily
- Contextual autosuggest in omnibox - when you click into the omnibox while on a web page, the autosuggest will be tailored accordingly
- More scam protection
- Better at detecting spammy/scammy notifications and requests for camera/location permissions
- AI as a password agent so you can change compromised passwords faster
Meta has new AI glasses with a Neural Band that uses surface electromyography to detect tiny muscle signals when you move your hand and fingers.
They claim it's about “staying present” and “not breaking your flow.” But really they want to cultivate dependency. What good is “looking up” if you’re just looking at a screen only you can see? Great news if you want to pay $800+ for the privilege of tethering your attention to Meta’s technology all day long. There is a legit upside to the Neural Band for people with disabilities, but that's not why they developed it.
Google now offers an interactive store widget to add to your ecommerce website:
- 3 tiers available: Generic, Store rating, Top Quality
- Embed on any web page
- Displays store quality rating from Google & other important details (policies, reviews)
- Stays up to date with your current ratings
LinkedIn is updating their terms on November 3, 2025:
- Sharing more info with Microsoft "so the Microsoft family of companies can show you more personalized and relevant ads"
- Expanding & reformatting User Agreement (one that stood out is clarifying that deep fakes are a violation)
Plus some changes that vary by region. Looks like you can still opt out of things.
- More social posts & videos, in addition to articles
- Personalize your Discover feed by following publishers & creators
HT to Ziggy Shtrosberg for this helpful tip: use a regex to segment GSC queries into buckets based on length. The really long ones are more likely to be from AI search.
Modify these examples as needed:
- All queries with 5 to 8 words:
◦ ^([^" "]*\s){4,7}[^" "]*$
- All queries with 20 or more words:
◦ ^([^" "]*\s){19,}[^" "]*$
Bookmark this article for the next time a local business owner asks if Updates on their GPB will "help SEO".
Google Updates:
- Build connections & trust with potential customers - similar to how social media posts work with existing customers
- Attract more eyeballs by taking up more space & adding more imagery to your listing when it appears in local search results
- Work best when they showcase useful info & the humans behind the business - think case studies & projects (with REAL photos, not stock), behind-the-scenes stuff, examples of your business engaging with the community, offers that offer real value, and relevant news about your products/services/team that people would actually want to read
If you're still having a hard time coming up with ideas for Google Updates, toss this summary or the article into an LLM and ask it to help you brainstorm, or to create questions you can use to get ideas from the business owner.
Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open framework designed to let AI agents make purchases safely on your behalf. More than 60 financial & tech leaders (incl. Ames, Mastercard, PayPal, Salesforce, Intuit) are already backing it.
*How it works:*
- AP2 introduces digital contracts called "mandates" that confirm you’ve authorized an agent before transaction is completed
- Real-time shopping uses 2-step approval: an intent mandate when you start a purchase, and a cart mandate to finalize payment
- Users can also pre-authorize agent purchases (e.g. "buy these tickets as soon as they're available")
- Built to handle credit cards, bank transfers & stablecoins, (crypto partnerships include Coinbase, MetaMask & Ethereum Foundation)
- Creates a verifiable "chain of evidence" from purchase intent through payment
- Technical details are on GitHub - by making it open & transparent Google is positioning AP2 as the infrastructure for AI-ecommerce going forward
This is brilliant: if you have stakeholders who get hung up on unhelpful GA channel labels like "Unassigned" and "(not set)" you can rename them by creating custom channel groups, and recoup "meeting time wasted on Google's terminology choices instead of business insights". The whole article (by Dana DiTomaso) is a smart, satisfying read & tells you exactly how to do it.
OpenAI updated the ChatGPT changelog today with improvements to search in ChatGPT:
- Factuality: Fewer hallucinations
- Shopping: Search is better at detecting shopping intent
- Formatting: Answers are better formatted for quick understanding
Related: This guy noticed that Deep Research in in most AI assistants started pulling from fewer sources when this change happened, likely because of token limits or cost/performance tradeoffs.
@user you will be happy to learn Claude was the exception!
If you use Semrush you may have noticed significant drops OR improvements associated with PAA visibility - it's because of a confirmed bug with parsing PAA if they include AIO. They're aiming to fix it by end of month.
ChatGPT & OpenAI both released reports this week about who's using their tools and what for. There's a ton of insight to dig into, but in a nutshell:
- ChatGPT is more of a general assistant used for daily stuff - writing is the #1 task and the split is 70% personal, 30% professional
◦ Global use spreading fast, especially in low/middle-income countries
- Claude is more of a professional workhorse used for structured tasks - mostly coding, business ops & admin, plus full automation via API for enterprise users
◦ Use is highest in high-income, tech-forward countries with advanced economies
Here are the reports:
(even the report titles underscore the differences!)
