Don’t eat if you’re not hungry
That’s not only good dieting advice. It works in just about every endeavor we sign up for. The system would like us to be insatiable on its behalf, but that’s not an invitation we’re required to accept.
That’s not only good dieting advice. It works in just about every endeavor we sign up for. The system would like us to be insatiable on its behalf, but that’s not an invitation we’re required to accept.
One year of AI Mode data shows people asking questions, not typing fragments, which is why the lead-first paragraph now beats the narrative arc.
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The issue started earlier this week and today, Friday, Google has confirmed it is a bug on its end.

AI is forcing SEO to evolve fast, but Duane Forrester says success still comes from serving users, building trust, and learning continuously.
AI labs are buying pre-2022 books to avoid training on AI slop while quietly building text watermarking, exposing why content-at-scale strategies are a losing bet.
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AI Overviews can now build interactive tools inside Search. Google’s testing shows generated interfaces often beat top results in head-to-head comparisons.
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