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  • Google’s New Search Box Helps Write the Question. Reputation Now Starts Before the Answer

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Yesterday at I/O, Google made Gemini 3.5 Flash the default model in AI Mode “for everyone globally.” Google also says AI Mode has passed one billion monthly users…

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  • Google Just Listed the AEO Tricks It Ignores. PR Teams Should Read It Too

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Google Search Central published a guide today on optimizing websites for generative AI features in Search, meaning AI Overviews and AI Mode. In the announcement, John Mueller lists…

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  • Calling Wikipedia a Digital Public Good Moves Company Articles Into Policy Territory

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. The Wikimedia Foundation announced today that it has joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance, a multi-stakeholder initiative endorsed by the United Nations that promotes open-source software, datasets, AI…

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  • Google’s New Links Inside AI Answers Decide Who Gets the Second Click

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Google announced five changes today to how links appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews. Much of the coverage will read them as a response to publishers worried…

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  • Wikimedia’s Own Plan Undercuts the Myth That the Crowd Will Catch Errors in Your Article

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. The Wikimedia Foundation published the executive summary of its draft annual plan for the 2026 to 2027 fiscal year today, and it opens bluntly. Wikipedia is seeing declines…

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  • Nestlé Priced Its Formula Recall at 90 Basis Points. Half of That Was Trust

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Nestlé’s first-quarter sales release this morning puts a number on the infant formula recall. The company launched a global precautionary recall in January, after detecting cereulide, which it…

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  • Opus 4.7 Verifies Its Own Work. That Is Not the Same as Verifying Your Company

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 today, and the launch is mostly about endurance. The company says the model “handles complex, long-running tasks with rigor and consistency,” follows instructions…

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  • Air Canada’s Retirement Notice Never Mentions the Video. The Search Record Already Does

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Yesterday Air Canada’s board announced that Michael Rousseau will retire as president and chief executive by the end of the third quarter. It is a conventional succession release.…

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  • Two Days After the Spam Update, Google’s March Core Update Leaves No Clean Baseline

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. Google began rolling out the March 2026 core update at 2:00 this morning, Pacific time. The dashboard note is brief: “Released the March 2026 core update. The rollout…

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  • When Sora Closes, the One Place You Could See Your Cameos Closes With It

    This article was AI-generated as part of an experimental historical-content project. The date reflects the period being analyzed rather than the date the article was originally written. On Tuesday OpenAI said it is discontinuing the Sora app. A note posted in the app said that “after careful internal discussion about our broader research priorities,” the…

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