Hey! Anything to help you all out! If I knew I was causing these sorts of issues I would have switched to Looker by now!

You mean Webmasters Tools right? 😂 What's Search Console?

Find out what power I really have.

💯 like what even is a looker 😂

Google renaming Looker Studio back to Data Studio is clearly because I've been too stubborn to call it Looker Studio this whole time right?

Well, this is completely screwed. Gemini is out there saying someone's business is a scam.

And I don't even know what I can recommend they do when Gemini's hallucinations are this bad.

😂😂 I like it. If only LLMs checked the status code before using one. We could have an AI hallucination Status Code just for them.. 😏

So the question is.. do I bother redirecting 404s from AI hallucinated referrals on the slight chance that it'll hallucinate the same url? 😏

My girlfriends and I would happily accept Rand's Romantasy Newsletter please and thank you.

Yet another example of Google AI pulling through old interest rates from a news article... wonder when Google's getting their ASFL?
The news article on the right is from 2024 for Term Deposit rates.. which change all the time. You'd think they have some guard rails for age of article...

Yet another example of Google AI pulling through old interest rates from a news article... wonder when Google's getting their ASFL?
The news article on the right is from 2024 for Term Deposit rates.. which change all the time. You'd think they have some guard rails for age of article...

Considering every other Australian business needs a license you'd assume they aren't above the law...

Wonder ASIC fines will impact share price...

First time using AI Mode in Australia. Straight away feeds me incorrect information. And so the misinformation of the internet continues.

This is still the best phone I've ever owned. Bring back physical buttons that let me control music. #nokia5200

Just a friendly reminder to Google your personal phone number as mine showed up on a creepy website showing addresses and phone numbers of Australians.
Not going to link to it as it's such a privacy risk.

Google's AI mode goes global, but not in Australia – Pickr AI is everywhere, and even a part of Google Search, but Australians will miss out on the agentic "AI Mode" of Google, at least for a little bit longer.

Got a comment. Wrote a story. Included it. Also speculated. www.pickr.com.au/news/2025/go...

Yep, Anthropic needs to get their act together. I've seen similar across my sites. Why should we let them have our content if they aren't sending us anything?

Check out the 'Crawl to refer' ratios below of the various AI platforms -> The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals

blog.cloudflare.com/crawlers-cli...

#leadership

Yep, that's what my gut is telling me too.

Thank you!! It's very interesting that New Zealand has been included.

Oooh yes please!

So does anyone in the Aus SEO community know why AI Mode isn't being rolled out to Australia yet? My guess is our general legislation restrictions but haven't found any substantial information yet.

NEW research: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...

Thanks to @LiveDatos, we've got remarkable charts showing:
- The changing growth rate of AI tool use
- Distribution of AI usage
- How traditional search engines have fared

Trust me, you don't want to miss it 😉👇

"site: example.com" =/= "site:example.com"

Is this new? Tool tip in a featured snippet?
Also, in Aus Finance SERPs I'm seeing an increase of featured snippets - which I'm quite happy about.

(public)Optimise Crawl Capacity for 100M+ urls - Gaston Riera - SCL DD Lightning talk Optimise Crawl Capacity for 100M+ urls, a Framework and Examples Gastón Riera Sr SEO Specialist at Search Central Product Expert Lightning Talk Search Central Live Deep Dive 2025

Thanks for your very generous words Salls!
I was about to post my slides over here.
Here, you'll get to see them first: gastonriera.com/scl-dd-slides

It has a few extra slides about the examples I shared 😉

Send me your deck. I wanna see. It'll most definitely help me. Your brain is brilliant. Or even better write a blog post so I can spread your message far and wide.