
After nearly 30 years at Microsoft, Fabrice Canel is retiring from Bing, leaving behind a major legacy in indexing, Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow, and the broader search community.

I’m watching Google’s new YouTube measurement features because they give advertisers clearer ways to connect brand campaigns with engagement, branded search activity, and business outcomes.

I’m seeing Google Ads roll out a redesigned All Campaigns selector with a clearer hierarchy view and built-in search, making campaign navigation easier for advertisers managing complex accounts.

I’m watching Microsoft expand Performance Max testing with new uplift and upgrade experiments that help advertisers measure campaign impact and validate changes before committing budget.

Google is making recipe results in AI Mode more publisher friendly by adding prominent links, creator names, ratings, images, and ingredient counts to help users discover and visit original recipe pages.

AI search is exposing weak spots in global SEO governance. I break down where ownership should sit across technical standards, local expertise, AI crawler access, measurement, and brand representation.

I break down how I would modernize an SEO stack with LLMs, APIs, lightweight scripts, and local workflows while keeping the traditional SEO tools that still matter.

I look back at Zero Click New York 2026 as a major AI Marketing summit where more than 1,000 leaders gathered to discuss strategy, measurement, team design, AI citations, ChatGPT ads, and the content AI systems trust most.