Nice! Google just made so that any website can invite their readers to add them as a preferred source, making it more likely for that site to be seen in AI Overviews and AI Mode. This used to be just for news sites to be seen as preferred sources in Top Stories.

California-based Omar Khan has been obsessed with the Indus Valley civilization since he was a teenager. He has been running an excellent resource - Harappa.com, and now he has produced a captivating short documentary on Mohenjo daro. Do watch it. Amazing work. Mohenjo daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City youtu.be/BxyxVgAMM_4?si=QS0f… via @YouTube

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🚨 @bing explains the evolving role of the index in traditional search vs AI systems: From ranking pages to supporting answers 👇 "Traditional search asks: which pages should a user visit? Grounding asks: what information can an AI system responsibly use to construct a response?" Grounding an AI–generated answer introduces a fundamentally different constraint: the system is no longer just pointing to information, it is using it. The goal shifts from “fetch the best documents” to “fetch the best information to synthesize into a reliable, verifiable answer.” What the Index Must Measure Differently: Factual fidelity, Source attribution quality, Freshness, Coverage of high-value facts, Contradictions / conflict. By @kmadhavan77, Knut Risvik, Meenaz Merchant - thanks for publishing it 👏 Read it all: blogs.bing.com/search/May-20…

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One of the WordPress related things I've shared too little about is: makewpfast.com/ It started as a cheeky pSEO experiment, but becomes something I'm starting to be really proud of. It's an online WordPress plugin performance lab. My goal is to slowly test ALL of the plugins in the repo (currently 12,5k plugins) Using the same, repeatable tests. So instead of saying: "Plugins BAD. Plugins SLOW!" You can check what kind of performance impact you can expect from each plugin.

상업적 이용 가능한 무료 텍스쳐, 오버레이 이미지 400장 공유합니다. 이전에 배포했던 드라이브에 100장을 추가로 업데이트했습니다. 무료로 배포 중이니 디자인 작업하실 때 자유롭게 사용해 주세요! drive.google.com/drive/folde… - 텍스쳐 원본 유료 판매 금지 - AI 학습 및 활용 가능

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

🤖 The 10 Key Characteristics of (Long-Term) AI Search Winning Brands 👇 What makes a brand consistently show up and get recommended across AI search platforms? After analyzing the patterns, these are the 10 characteristics that AI search winning brands share: 1. Accessible AI systems can only cite what they can reach. If your content can't be crawled, retrieved, and parsed by AI platforms, nothing else matters. 2. Useful AI systems tend to surface content that demonstrates clear utility beyond keyword relevance. If your content doesn't add genuine value, it is less likely to be surfaced. 3. Recognizable The stronger and more consistently reinforced your entity is across the web, the more likely AI systems are to identify and represent your brand accurately. 4. Extractable Your content needs to be organized in ways that machines can reuse, since many AI systems retrieve and process information in chunks. If your key insights are buried, they're unlikely to be surfaced. 5. Consistent AI systems build confidence through repeated and aligned signals across sources. The same positioning, terminology, and brand facts need to appear across all your digital touchpoints: your site, third-party profiles, directories, social platforms, and earned media. 6. Corroborated Independent sources need to validate your expertise and claims. Repeated references across credible sources strengthen the likelihood of inclusion. 7. Credible Visibility in AI search is supported by real expertise, evidence, and trust signals, not just claims. Brands with consistently negative sentiment or weak trust signals may be less likely to be recommended. 8. Differentiated If your positioning is indistinguishable from competitors, AI systems have fewer signals to select and represent your brand as a distinct recommendation. 9. Fresh Important content needs to remain current and useful. Freshness can play a role in AI citation selection, particularly for time-sensitive or evolving topics, as many systems incorporate retrieval mechanisms that consider recency. 10. Transactable For ecommerce brands specifically, product data needs to support AI-driven discovery, comparison, and, where supported, purchase flows. Read more: aleydasolis.com/en/ai-search…

I saw LinkedIn job posted by lovable hiring for SEO role makes sense now

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As a UK citizen I would like to know WTH the @FCDOGovUK are doing to assist Yvonne Ridley who has gone missing in Israel on way to beind deported to Instanbul; Turkey.

🚨Scottish journalists unite to call for release of fellow journalists Yvonne Ridley and Sid Khan, held by Israeli authorities 🚨