David iwanow

In today's sharing is caring post we look at the importance of localisation this time for our Currency app play.google.com/store/apps/d... . 4 new tests to see how the default English screenshots compare to the localised versions for Philippines, Brazil, Japan and India (Hindi).

Around the OpenAI Signals v3 @kevin-indig.bsky.social focused on search, announced in "ChatGPT's expanding world of work" dataset that was released. I found that at work, buyers are using ChatGPT more and sellers are using it less. lnkd.in/p/enkSeVC5

Just about to head to lunch and made the mistake of starting a WhatsApp conversation about AI model traceability. I’m building small traceability markers into my tools, like davidiwanow.com/tools/brand-..., to catch model drift and edge cases faster, add transparency, and improve the output.

Laura Iancu (@searchpedia.bsky.social) believes that, whether using AI conversationally or strategically, everyone in search and marketing needs to start approaching the AI environment with far greater mindfulness. maj.to/3OCOkFR

The EU is fighting Elon Musk's Starlink on at least five fronts. From blocking access and boosting rivals to drafting new rules aimed at undermining the tech mogul's growing dominance in the space business.

Trump Gets Roasted by Obama & Transfixed by Nicki Minaj's Ass

Have you ever had a large group and the restaurant refuses to split the bill... I took that pain point and built an Android app play.google.com/store/apps/d... it's has no analytics tracking you, no ads and yeah it's free. Improve the model by submitting when the receipt is read incorrectly.

The United States continues to help Putin murder civilians in Ukraine

It turns out that Google Posts might actually be our company's #1 social channel. I recently looked at the views Whitespark’s Google Posts are getting, and I was pretty surprised.

We built an AI scanner to automatically try to figure out if is it new... It is very much beta, but let me know your thoughts...

Case Study - Does your brand authority cross borders? Here's what Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity cite alizeebaudez.github.io/multi-market...

Kaspar Szymanski (@seozen.com) explains that data consistency separates genuinely successful brands from those chasing buzzwords and silver bullets in an industry where shortcuts rarely deliver lasting results. maj.to/46WZknq

To support One Nation, you don’t just have to be racist, you have to be generally devoid of decency

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... #Auspol anyone who still supports Hanson and ON is a lowlife.

“Name something a criminal attorney is gonna do first!” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I did some interviews at the recent Google Search Central Live Deep Dive event and here is the first one from @alizeebaudez.bsky.social on internationalisation beyond hreflang www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Hb... #searchcentrallive #scldd2026

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

Good. Maybe we'll stop connecting ovens to the internet.

Zelensky on bombing the Russian data centers: “It’s pretty clear where the bots were coming from.”

Alex Moss (@alexmoss.bsky.social) believes that scaling content for its own sake doesn't work long-term, so instead, focus on concise, well-structured pieces that genuinely serve the reader rather than chasing keyword volume. maj.to/4aizyLl

Alex Moss (@alexmoss.bsky.social) explains that good markdown structure benefits both human readers and AI crawlers, so clear formatting aids tokenization and helps machines parse your content more effectively. maj.to/4aizyLl

An AI company now lets cops take a photo and nearly instantly figure out what specific home it was taken in, using only clues in the photo itself, and is clearly pulling data from sites like Zillow and Airbnb. www.404media.co/ai-company-l...

Well, we call it Beers and SEO for a reason - and this clip demonstrates the art of both! YouTube: lnkd.in/evNPyhSc Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/et8R67TR Spotify: lnkd.in/ejKf8RFJ #ai #journalism #seo #beers

What happened to Amazon and the 1 click checkout idea... I just wanted to buy the exact same USB-C cable as i did last time as the current one broke.... Reordering on Amazon now takes 6 actions and viewing 6 pages.... #ecom

Promising to pay voters if they vote for a Republican? A federal crime, but no one pays attention -- not DOJ, not Congress. Will voters, or will enough of them normalize such behavior?

flock cameras are out of spec. the fact that they keep misreading license plates should get their company dragged in front of a court of law and charged with gross negligence, misconduct, and unprofessional conduct in the practice of engineering

Seems Meta is focusing on the right things.... their Like functionality has broken on Facebook... but i guess their core product is ads and selling user data these days so who needs a like button?

UCP integration hub in Google Merchant Center - via Hana Kobzova

Are you using AI in the WRONG way? Join us in 30 mins when David Bain will be joined by Rejoice Ojiaku, @sequinsnsearch.bsky.social, Eli Schwartz and Sante Achille to break down the biggest AI mistakes we see in SEO today, and share how you can avoid making them. maj.to/47aViHD

Sean Barber (@searchwithsean.bsky.social) warns that AI overviews can combine sources into confident but fundamentally wrong answers that can cause real-world harm. maj.to/4gTIZ8h

If you're a news or media publisher, my presentation next Wednesday at the News and Editorial SEO Summit (NESS) should be right up your alley. I present on Wed, 10/14 at 9:15AM and Ill be covering the most important algorithm updates that publishers should be aware of... newsseo.io

It's New 10/7: @themarketinganu.bsky.social on the Merchant Center UCP hub, @gregfinn.bsky.social on Apple blocking programmatic ads @mordyoberstein.bsky.social Google preferred sources stats and me on review rich results flatlined, crawl rate doc update & 50k typos www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eiku...

What if an SEO extension could harness AI to help you run a better audit without delegating the entire thing to an Agent? I wanted to see how doable this is. 🧵 1/4

Helpful Tip: Since Google updated its docs on Helpful Content, lots of folks are talking about "Effort", along w/ fake author profiles Effort ≠ work In the age of low-effort, scaled AI content getting decimated, understanding “high-effort” is increasingly relevant signal.zyppy.com/p/content-ef...

How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.

In the continuation of sharing another Google Play store listing experiment we are running. We would have lost 50% of potential downloads if we didn't test this and so far it's a +15.38% increase in app installs with the new icon for our ad/app blocking platform play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Quality at Google: what it is, how it is measured and how long it takes to recover from a core update? Nacho Mascort shares a breakdown of Google’s approach to quality based on what was presented at the Search Central Live in BCN, Google’s doc, and his experience: nachomascort.com/en/blog/goog...

“Brand voice type” is really two decisions stacked on top of each other: the register you write in (formal or informal) and the tone you carry inside it. Check out more examples >>> davidiwanow.com/tools/brand-...

Myriam Jessier (@myriam.dopamine.builders) believes that SEO is changing in many ways, which means that in 2026, the goal is to ensure that your brand and products are machine-readable, because we're dealing with multimodal search now. maj.to/4abzMnm

Desmond Boateng advocates for auditing your visuals, testing AI-generated image variations on key pages, and, if performance improves, automating creation and publishing through connected workflows. maj.to/4rDsekw

🤖 Useful Free resource by Findrix featuring which brands ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity recommend across 26 US markets across 10 categories (with a relevant/useful split that actually make it useful), and which sources they rely on 👇 Check it out: findrix.ai/radar/

Some assorted photos from SearchNorwichXL yesterday. Such a great event. Well done to @markwilliamscook.com and the team. Greatly enjoyed @divingfor.fun's "Angry German Man" rant about the state of the web - though it was more a call-to-action to build the web we want. ❤️ #SNXL

This might be one of the creepiest AI hallucinations I’ve seen (yet). A college student on Reddit was using Claude to study German vocabulary when it suddenly said it needed to stop because it was going to be sick.

Featuring your friendly charismatic host Steve Cheung.

Just thinking out loud about the new CrUX ad metrics announced yesterday. Why introduce these now? We know Google already has powerful Navboost data for understanding the user experience, but with AIOs and AI Mode changing user behavior, Navboost data is clearly changing...

Me: Ok let's update the privacy page please... Claude: Ok I've created a new email address as requested... Me: Where did you get those emails from? Did you check the MD file it's detailed in there... Claude: Fair — I made those addresses up, and I was wrong about the domain too.

@ddsd.dolsen.net oi happy birthday

If you aren't running mobile app tests in Google Play Console on a continuous basis you are giving away free downloads and not trying hard enough to win! www.linkedin.com/pulse/always...