SEO & Organic Search

Your Page Ranks in the Top 10. AI Overviews Still Ignore It.

Ranking well and getting cited are increasingly separate problems.

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Torn newspaper page reading 'GOOGLE SEARCH IS OVER' overlaid with a blueprint schematic of three surviving query buckets: branded, transactional, and YouTube carousel.

TechCrunch Called Google Search Over. Three Query Types Didn't Get the Memo.

TechCrunch's May 19 piece declared the ten blue links dead and Google Search "over." The headline obscures three query types where Google's AI rollout has the smallest impact on click-throughs: branded searches, high-involvement transactional searches, and YouTube SERPs. A Search Engine Land UX study

Blueprint diagram showing Google-Agent user agent path bypassing a robots.txt file with WAF firewall rules and server log entries displaying user agent strings

Google-Agent Ignores robots.txt. The Only Real Block Is at Your Firewall.

Google launched Google-Agent on March 20, 2026, a new user agent for AI systems running on Google infrastructure that browse pages on behalf of human users. Unlike Googlebot, it ignores robots.txt because Google classifies it as a user-triggered fetcher, meaning the only reliable way to block it is server-side

Future PLC's 67% Profit Drop Puts a Public Number on the AI Overviews Tax

Future PLC reported a 67% drop in pre-tax profit for the six months to March 31, 2026, with website sessions down 15% and Google Search and Discover traffic both off roughly 20% year over year. The £4 billion market capitalization the group held in December 2022 has shrunk to about