Ethical AI, Responsible AI, and AI Governance Are Not the Same Thing The Thesis: Language Failure Becomes Operational Failure We keep arguing about AI safety while failing to define governance itself. This confusion guarantees downstream failure in oversight and accountability. Three terms circulate through boardrooms, policy documents, and LinkedIn debates as if they mean the […]
Search Engines
The Search Tightrope in Plain View: What Liz Reid Just Told Us About Google’s AI Future
TL;DR• What changed: Google is moving AI from behind-the-scenes ranking to front-and-center answers, through AI Overviews and AI Mode, while saying links still guide people out to the open web [1].• Why it matters: Google says people search more and are happier when AI Overviews appear, and that commercial intent still drives clicks. Publishers and […]
Spam Updates, SERP Volatility, and AI-Driven Search Shifts
Google’s August 2025 spam update, Core Web Vitals INP enforcement, and AI-powered SERPs reshape SEO. Learn what happened, what to do, and how to adapt.
Platform Ecosystems and Plug-in Layers
The plug-in layer is no longer optional. Enterprises now curate GPT Store stacks, Grok plug-ins, and compliance filters the same way they once curated app stores. The fact is adoption crossed three million custom GPTs in less than a year (OpenAI, 2024). The tactic is simple: use curated sections for research, compliance, or finance so […]
Mapping the July Shake-Up: Core Update Fallout, AI Overviews, and Privacy Pull
July was a reminder that search never sits still. Google’s June 2025 Core Update, which officially finished on July 17, delivered one of the most disruptive shake-ups in years, reshuffling rankings across health, retail, and finance and leaving many sites searching for stability (Google, 2025; Schwartz, 2025a, 2025b). At the same time, AI Overviews continued […]
Open-Source Expansion and Community AI
The table is crowded, laptops half open, notes scattered. Deadlines are already late. Budgets are thin, thinner than they should be. Expectations do not move with AI scanners and criticism on everything, the work has to feel human, or it fails, and as we learned in May looking professional now looks fake on apps like […]
Navigating SEO After Google’s June 2025 Core Update
Google’s June 2025 Core Update dramatically altered search rankings, with over 16% of top-10 URLs being new entries. This shift highlights the increasing importance of AI Overviews and structured data. Success metrics now extend beyond clicks to include impressions and performance across multiple search engines, demanding adaptation in SEO strategies.
Navigating SEO in a Localized, Zero-Click World
Search visibility is shifting again, and this time the changes are subtle but far-reaching. The big story through May is not a new algorithm, but the ongoing volatility from March’s core update, combined with growth signals in Bing and DuckDuckGo and a steady Yandex share that still matters in regional markets. At the same time, […]
Yahoo Deliverability Shake-Up & Multi-Engine SEO in a Privacy-First World
April reshaped both inboxes and search results. Yahoo’s long-anticipated enforcement of stricter deliverability standards disrupted email campaigns worldwide, shifting filtering from IP-based checks to domain reputation. At the same time, privacy-first search engines like DuckDuckGo continued to capture attention as users sought alternatives to data-heavy platforms, while Google’s Privacy Sandbox reinforced that cookie deprecation is […]
Building Authority with Verified AI Research [Two Versions, #AIa Originality.ai review]
***This article is published first as Basil Puglisi Original work and written and dictated to AI, you can see the Originality.ai review of my work, it then is republished again in this same page after AI helps refine the content, my opinion is the second version is the better content and more professional but the […]