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Artificial Intelligence

Google Rebuilt Search Around AI. Don’t Throw Away Your SEO Playbook.

IN THIS ISSUE: Google didn’t just update Search at I/O this week. It rebuilt it around AI, with consequences for every marketer who has spent years optimizing for a SERP that no longer looks the same. This issue examines what the shift from SEO to Answer Engine Optimization actually means for businesses trying to stay […]

Artificial Intelligence

HubSpot Is Cementing Its Bet on AI Search With XFunnel Acquisition

HubSpot is acquiring XFunnel, a startup building an AI-powered search optimization platform. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but HubSpot says it plans to fold XFunnel’s technology into its Marketing Hub to give marketers deeper visibility into how their brands surface in AI assistants and apps such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. “As AI changes how people find […]

Artificial Intelligence

Search Impressions Soar with Google’s AI Overview, Even as Website Clicks Decline

It’s been a year since Google introduced AI Overview to its widely used search engine. The feature significantly transformed how people discovered information online, displaying information summaries above traditional search results. At the time, Google’s Vice President of Search, Liz Reid, proclaimed that AI Overview links would deliver more clicks and “valuable traffic to publishers […]

Artificial Intelligence

Searchquake: How Gen AI and Agents Are Reshaping SEO

IN THIS ISSUE: Dive into the changing world of search to better understand how artificial intelligence is disrupting where websites get their traffic from. Google’s dominance isn’t at risk…yet. But apps like Perplexity and OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a threat at its doorstep. BrightEdge CEO Jim Yu joins “The AI Economy” to share his observations and […]

Artificial Intelligence

Adobe Steps Into Its Orchestration Era With New AI Agents for Sales and Marketing

Adobe is the latest tech giant to embrace AI-powered agents for the enterprise. This week, the company introduced the Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator, a new service designed to build, deploy, and manage AI agents across the customer experience, sales, and marketing lifecycle. “The opportunities for AI and marketing are significant,” Anil Chakravarthy, President of […]

Artificial Intelligence

Adobe: Generative AI Reshaping Consumer Behavior, Driving Massive Traffic Shifts in Online Shopping, Travel, and Finance

Generative AI is transforming consumers’ shopping, travel, and financial patterns. New data from Adobe reveals the impact chatbots have on online purchase behavior. The company found that between November 1 and December 31, 2024, Gen AI sources sent a 1,300 percent increase in traffic to U.S. retailers. And, when observed over seven months, Adobe discovered […]

Apps

The AI Economy: The AI Startup Taking on Gmail, Perplexity Shows AI Search Power

It’s been a busy week since my return to VentureBeat with no shortage of AI news to report on. For this issue of The AI Economy, I spotlighted Andrew Lee, an entrepreneur with a storied past. He cofounded Firebase, a major developer backend service, and now he’s back with a new startup. Lee is betting […]

Generative AI

How AI Search Might Impact Your SEO

Digital marketers dedicated years to optimizing websites, creating content tailored to keyword phrases in attempts to outperform search engine algorithms. However, the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in Microsoft Bing and Google may have completely transformed the landscape of search engine optimization (SEO), potentially playing a significant role in affecting site traffic. Making Search Work […]

Marketing

How “1” Is Not The Loneliest Number But Rather A Sign of Popularity

It seems that more and more time is being spent using Google+, at least for me. Yes, I’ve heard people say that Google+ isn’t relevant and that no one really uses it, but I find that it’s helpful in its own ways. Sure we can post things to Twitter and to Facebook, but for me, […]

Marketing

The Transformation of Online Advertising To Social Advertising

Recently I’ve started to delve into Facebook’s advertising platform. Initially it struck me a bit confusing as I tried to look at setting up a campaign. Normally if you were going to create a campaign, you’d focus on the keywords and your daily price on what you feel comfortable bidding on. But instead, Facebook’s ad […]