Views: 12August 7, 2025, an OpenAI a livestream drops. They have teased it with “LIVE5TREAM,” dropping a subtle hint that GPT-5 might be stepping onto the stage. Why This Matters GPT-5 isn’t just another upgrade. We’re hearing talk of smarter model selection, such as ask a question, and the system picks the best-performing engine automatically. That spells faster results without the…
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Views: 26Lots of speculation (wishful thinking), alleging that OpenAI and ChatGPT is using Google for their search index. We’ve been fighting this rumor for several weeks now. It stems from the fact, many simply don’t understand how ChatGPT is working. If you prompt ChatGPT plus to “look up xyz” where: 1) It has no results in the LLM for “xyz”…
Views: 159If your business is a brick-n-mortar that relies on foot traffic or serves a specific geographic area, showing up in local search isn’t optional. Getting listed in Google Maps has been a given for years, but there’s a newer player in town: ChatGPT. It has been known for awhile that OpenAI is using MapBox for maps and business listings.…
Views: 23The Big Eight, a diverse and powerful group of large language models (LLMs), now stand as the new pillars of the AI community. From the pioneering research labs of OpenAI and Anthropic to the tech behemoths of Google and Microsoft, and the innovative newcomers from China and beyond, these eight LLMs represent a massive leap in what AI can…
Views: 290LLM-based platforms generate AI answers by running several queries across their training data. If they don’t have enough confidence in an answer, they will also use those multiple queries to perform multiple searches. Then they consolidate all the findings from these searches into an answer, which not only answers the initial prompt but also includes additional information to help…
Views: 24While watching the arrival of “AI” on to the tech scene, it sure seemed like many in the tech press were trying to gin up controversy between OpenAI and Google just for the sport of it. While those of us in tech realize the power of the new LLM models, we also know that Google aint going no where…
Views: 15OpenAI is reportedly working on a standalone web browser that would bring ChatGPT’s capabilities directly into the browsing experience. The project is being led by Srinivas Narayanan, a sr figure on the OpenAI ChatGPT team, and would represent a significant step beyond the current “Browse with Bing” tool available to ChatGPT Plus users. This new browser will likely offer…
Views: 186Ahrefs has released a new study that challenges one of the most debated topics in SEO: whether AI-generated content negatively impacts Google rankings. While the story is billed as ‘AI Content Doesn’t Hurt You’, we felt the bigger results here are that they found most of the top ranking pages include AI generated content. Ahrefs created two separate websites, each…
Views: 115(post edit) I knew it was too good to be true. OpenAI is using Common Crawl db – we knew this. What we didn’t know, is that Common Crawl uses some Google at times. There are still some mysteries to be solved. Read more here. Translation here. (/edit) It was just in May that we learned that OpenAI had…
Views: 45 ChatGPT’s auto‑suggestion feature, introduced in April 2025 for plus users, offers real‑time prompt ideas as you type, drawing on conversation context, trending topics, and your previous queries. It recently (not sure when) was updated to be closer in line with “search queries” and rolled out for broader adaption. It was often rare to see suggestions, but now you…
Views: 54While SEOs obsess over AI Overviews, disappearing clicks, SOT (Slop on Top) and SGE’s erratic hallucinations, something bigger is brewing: ChatGPT is eating Google’s lunch in AI search adoption almost everywhere – except in one place. According to a recent StatCounter release, ChatGPT is surging ahead as the go-to AI search tool in regions like the U.S., Europe, India,…
Views: 29OpenAI’s June 13 update quietly rolled out one of the most meaningful improvements to ChatGPT’s core functionality to how it handles search. Whether you’re using ChatGPT for research, writing help, or troubleshooting, these changes make the interaction feel faster, smarter, and more useful. What’s New: Smarter, More Context-Aware Search The new release is better at understanding your intent, following…
Google’s own court-filed slide deck just spilled more tea on Navboost, and the details punch a few holes in years of SEO guesswork. The newly released trove goes further, mapping more than 100 raw signals into a ranking stew that still leans on old-school PageRank while layering in LLM toys like RankEmbed, re-ranking Twiddlers, and the rumored mysterious quality metric called Q*Star.
Views: 34Cleaning your AI output. There are a ton of “rewriters” out there right now. Variations on the theme of “casual”, “personal”, and “professional” exist in a rainbow of varieties. Even so, most people can still sniff out AI writing most of the time. Lets take a look at cleaning up your AI output before you dump it onto the…
Ten years ago, for every two pages Google scraped, you got one visitor, today, it’s six pages scraped for one visitor. And with AI? It’s 250 to 1… or 6,000 to 1!
When SearchGPT launched on ChatGPT, I dove into the deep end from the starting bell. It has been my default search for six months.
Views: 13Captain Obvious says: AI is a major game-changer for SEO and marketing professionals who want to work smarter and not harder. Well duh, but if you’ve been in the industry for a while, you know that staying ahead of algorithm updates, scaling content production, and making data-driven decisions can be an overwhelming and mostly zero sum gain. AI is…
Views: 93(wow, yesterdays big list of search engines was surprisingly popular, we felt a deeper exploration of traffic sources was in order.) 23 years ago, I wrote a article called Mostly Viral Top Traffic Alternatives to Search Engines. At 20 million page views and counting, it has turned out to be one of the top five all-time traffic posts in…
Views: 1The ChatGPT for Android Beta can now replace Google assist on the home button. This feature allows for immediate ChatGPT assistance. There is no need to toggle between applications or lose focus—just tap, hold the home button, and receive instant responses. If this lights your fire, then joining the beta is a must and simple process. Navigate to the…
Views: 153With the news yesterday that ChatGPT is getting 400million visits a week, Webmasters are itchy and scratchy for a taste of this fresh source of traffic. However, lets remember, that it was only a few weeks ago that OpenAI released SearchGPT to non-logged in users. Clearly there is going to be a required adoption phase required before it rains…
Views: 1As of late February 2025, OpenAI is advancing its AI models with the anticipated release of GPT-4.5, codenamed “Orion” expected in early March or April. This model is set to be the final iteration without chain-of-thought reasoning. Following this, GPT-5 is projected to debut in late 2025. Sam Altman posted on Twitter: OPENAI ROADMAP UPDATE FOR GPT-4.5 and GPT-5:We…
Views: 2 While most browsers it is pretty easy to reset your search engine default, on Apple it has been a challenge. Now with a recent update to the ChatGPT App, it is easier than ever. If you use ChatGPT and SearchGPT as much as we do – you can now set it as your main search engine on Safari-iPhone…