Trendos’ Gintare Rimolaityte explains how to map AI citation sources by industry and engine, identify competitor gaps, and turn an audit into content and outreach priorities. The post How To Find The Sources Shaping AI Answers In Your Industry appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke says unreviewed AI output is landing on coworkers. Freelance marketplace data shows demand for AI cleanup work rising elsewhere too. The post Shopify CEO Warns AI ‘Slop Grenades’ Shift Work To Coworkers appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Lighthouse 13.5 adds an audit for AI agent resource discovery, but its checks differ from the latest ARD proposal.

Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe name no live merchant. Google names three. Here is what the agentic commerce documentation still refuses to say

AI ranks passages, reads alt text, and cites whatever numbers you publish. Practical rules for local service pages from SEJ Live

Is Google lying about AI Search? New research shows AI Mode decreases clicks and it gives a poor user experience. The post Research Shows Google AI Mode Sends Less Clicks & Is A Poor User Experience appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

This is a programming note: I will be 100% offline from Sunday night (September 20th) through Monday night (September 21st) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories tomorrow, Monday, Yom Kippur; nothing will be posted.

Google Search has this beta opt-in feature named Web Guide, it is like a mix of its AI search results interface and web search interface – in one. That being said, there seems to be a bug where, when you click the button that says “Classic search,” it does not take you out of Web Guide and into classic search.

The crawl stats report is missing a day of data again, this time, the missing data is from September 15th (it might be a day later for some of you on different time zones). That being said, this has happened numerous times before and Google tends to always restore the data.

Google is testing payments for content contributing to AI answers, Mueller says AI position data is hard to report, and Cloudflare splits training from search. The post Google AI Payment Pilot, Search Profiles At 10,000 – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .