Our July item tracked Google renaming the NotebookLM crawler to Google-GeminiNotebook after its rebrand — now the product's own public pages are the exploit, with 12,000+ indexed by Google's own count so far. Via Search Engine Roundtable. #GoogleSearch #AEO #Gemini

Our Sept. 21 item covered a randomized study finding forced AI Mode already cuts clicks and trust versus regular search — this test embeds AI Mode-routing links inside the AI Overview itself, disguised as ordinary ones. #GoogleSearch #AEO #AIOverviews

Profound wired AI Marketer into Answer Engine Insights' charts — click a data point, the agent investigates. Sept. 16's $180M raise, put to work. #AEO

ChatGPT named 27.9% fewer B2B tech brands per answer in September than March, per BrightEdge — Microsoft, Google and Amazon lost the most ground. #AEO #ChatGPT

Every item dated and sourced; corrections logged in public. The same week, with links, lands in the Monday briefing — sign-up in the bio. #AISearch #AEO

Classical SEO targets keywords. AEO targets direct answers. GEO targets high-dimensional vector embeddings and LLM citation share. Here is the definitive 2026 AEO vs GEO strategy benchmark framework: https://aivisbilityplan.com/aeo-geo-strategy #GEO #AEO #SEO #AI

El País's Sept. 16 block on ClaudeBot reversed itself four days later, back to 200 for ClaudeBot and browsers, still 403 for GPTBot and Perplexity. Via Crawler access panel. #AEO #Cloudflare #Perplexity

Google's Web Guide has a bug: the 'Classic search' exit button doesn't exit, trapping users in the AI-blended view — two SEO pros hit it independently today. #GoogleSearch #AEO