Because you can't get enough newsletters, here's the latest from Near Media: 500M Local Guides, Near Me Impressions, AI Content Everywhere, UK Survey: Google dominates AI. nearmedia.co/local-guides-s…

After flailing for a number of years, ⁦⁦Nextdoor⁩ makes a renewed bid for local relevance. Can it come back? investors.nextdoor.com/news/news-deta…

Threads is about to overtake this platform. What will happen then? threads.com/@similarwebins…

Featuring Wil Reynolds Andi Jarvis Joy Hawkins Melissa Popp ✊ Elizabeth Rule Ben Fisher Krystal Taing Andrew Shotland Mike Blumenthal Greg Sterling 🇺🇦 and more incredible speakers!

Major issues with ChatGPT today. Lots of errors and hallucination. Not sure what's going on.

Local Pack way down the page.

Just remarkable ... there's the marketing and tech content and then everything else on this site. That contrast is jarring. #SouthParkSeason27

AI sites gaining in travel search, traditional search and travel booking sites lose ground, per Morning Consult.

Google Web Guide/AI Organized SERPs looks like a potentially better blending of AI and traditional link-based SERPs.

Podcast EP 216 w/ Greg Sterling 🇺🇦 & @mblmenthal The Podcast Deets 🧠 1. Pew & Ahrefs Reveal Click Declines & AIO Disruption 🗺️ 2. Local SEO vs. AI: What Happens to the Pack? 🤖 3. ChatGPT’s Local Play & The Battle Over “AIO”

Three out of five stories on the news carousel for “market down” are Indian publications. This is not a good result.

Latest Near Media newsletter: Google Web Guide shows promise, ChatGPT aims for world domination, what would Local Graph 2.0 look like, the great tech betrayal nearmedia.co/google-web-gui…

Apple surprises with top and bottom line growth, pledges more AI investments cnbc.com/2025/07/31/app…

As the economy weakens under Trump’s policies, big tech and AI spending become a critical force to prevent recession. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Using recent proprietary survey data, I unpack the complex relationship between ChatGPT and Google in local search. Right now it's about discovery and recovery, not substitution. localdialog.com/local-search-c…?

OMG: someone using the NotebookLM "podcast" feature for their YouTube spa review. More and more AI slop on YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=dpapp3…

It's shocking how far this platform has fallen since it was actually useful pre Musk takeover. My feed is full of spam, low quality ads, bots spewing right wing propaganda and humans pushing falsehoods.

Another one. Nooooooo! GEO must be stopped.

ChatGPT confessions: a sobering reminder that none of your "conversations" or documents uploaded to AI are confidential. digitaldigging.org/p/the-chatgpt-…?