Key trends this episode:

- AI’s growing role in reshaping search, with Google prioritising its own features over external traffic.

- OpenAI’s image tool hits 1M users in an hour, while new tools like Gemini and Bing Copilot push interactivity further.

- AI’s impact on jobs, with Shopify and DeepMind raising serious questions about the future of work.

- The UK rolls out AI lessons for 6-year-olds, and a whistleblower warns about AI safety at Google.Video Links -SEO Survey - https://forms.gle/yKKERfy9nA1Uuh3d8Chat With Jamie D'Alessandro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUmB0_u8vzsLily Ray Interview - https://tinyurl.com/4xfx6nvwMoz Whiteboard - https://tinyurl.com/yf9nc2hmInsideAI Video - https://tinyurl.com/2avxbbjjSEO Office Hours - https://tinyurl.com/yzyybse5AI Not Replacing Search - https://shorturl.at/tZAfpSearch Web On Claude - https://shorturl.at/XE2qIMarch Core Update - https://shorturl.at/2gi2y & https://shorturl.at/kuz3eSearch Console API - https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-api-24-hour-view-39103.htmlA Necessary Evil - https://rb.gy/9m60a8 & https://rb.gy/vnkrtlOpenAI Image Generation - https://rb.gy/tshq2tChatGPT Adds New Users - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-image-openai-studio-ghibli-b2726538.htmlJoe Rogan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMsJHjtS5Do&t=3906sTony Blair's Thinktank - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/02/uk-ai-copyright-laws-transatlantic-tony-blair-thinktankE-E-A-T On Web Pages - https://rb.gy/fz81jaGemini's Real Time AI - https://n9.cl/cg5d1gSmall Robots Orders Others - https://news.sky.com/video/small-robot-orders-others-to-come-home-with-him-in-bizarre-ai-incident-13261004Britney Muller Post - https://n9.cl/7aee6SEO Job Report - https://www.seojobs.com/community/seo-job-report/Human Like Robot At Work - https://news.sky.com/story/meet-the-human-like-robot-on-its-first-day-of-work-13331516Amanda Walls Post - https://n9.cl/66087Perplexity Shopping - https://n9.cl/s8d3aHomepage 404 Redirects - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-martin-splitt-warns-against-redirecting-404s-to-homepage/541549/Google Search Survey - https://searchengineland.com/google-search-less-useful-survey-452700Danny Sullivan On AIOs - https://n9.cl/yn64zOpenAI Academy - https://academy.openai.com/Wikipedia Tool - https://detailed.com/wiki/Ahrefs Google Article - https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-looking-out-for-number-one/Google Discover Post - https://n9.cl/b3p64H&M AI Models - https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/hm-to-use-ai-model-twins-6356860/https://istiktokasearchengine.com/Javascript Loaded Images - https://n9.cl/be8k4Whistleblower News Nation Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aJCWS7K4SE&rco=1Whistleblower Parents On Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onF2Bz-njNcLinkedIn Founder On AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1AjTnsubIGoogle Deepmind AGI Plan - https://n9.cl/ez52ymGoogle AGI Paper - https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/evaluating-potential-cybersecurity-threats-of-advanced-ai/An_Approach_to_Technical_AGI_Safety_Apr_2025.pdfAI Drug Development - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/scientists-experts-institute-of-cancer-research-london-patients-b2718011.htmlBing Webmaster Copilot Feature - https://n9.cl/fsfv1uChildren Learning AI - https://fortune.com/2025/03/10/china-school-children-ai-deepseek-liang-wengfeng-estonia-uk-america-south-korea/AI Battlefield Robots - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/08/hi-tech-battlefield-robotics-drones-britain-ai-defence/#:~:text=The%20latest%20AI%2Dpowered%20battlefield,be%20used%20on%20the%20battlefield.Shopify CEO About AI - https://n9.cl/64le0Google Discover On Desktop - https://searchengineland.com/google-to-expand-discover-googles-desktop-homepage-454155Mo Gawdat On AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=uHuy02ZI6bpqSAaA&v=RiN33qvoDo0&feature=youtu.be

In this episode of SEO and AI News, we cover a range of topics including AI development and concerns like self-replication and ethical considerations, AI applications and features such as AI in gaming and updates to Alexa, SEO and search engine updates including the impact of AI overviews and Google's quality rater guidelines, and other notable events like Elon Musk's dealings with OpenAI and Google's handling of DEI.

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Video Links -Google Staff Meeting on AI & Diversity - https://tinyurl.com/2y43k7b2Do Links Still Matter for SEO? - https://shorturl.at/5OQWcDo Long Title Tags Help with Rankings? - https://shorturl.at/oI9yeMicrosoft Muse: AI for Game Development - https://tinyurl.com/3d4f4y2aBloomberg Report: AI Industry Trends - https://tinyurl.com/363d6jzzChatGPT Now Free to Use Without an Account - https://rb.gy/98bu7xAmazon Alexa Assistant Gets AI Upgrade - https://rb.gy/0apf8bGoogle Market Share Slips - https://rb.gy/aywtccImpact of AI Overviews on SEO - https://tinyurl.com/3wnwnpbxOpenAI Expands AI Agent Operator Worldwide - https://rb.gy/czjlz8AI Can Now Replicate Itself – https://tinyurl.com/y6697uxkMeta Offers £300,000 for Exclusive Instagram Reels - https://tinyurl.com/yk6zamcsTrump’s AI Video Sparks Controversy - https://shorturl.at/MKhmxGmail Scam Targeting Banking Data - https://shorturl.at/sDYFwGoogle Ads Now Demotes Misleading Landing Pages - https://shorturl.at/lCBJtMicrosoft’s OmniParser v2 Turns LLMs Into Agents - https://tinyurl.com/3dw23tkhOpenAI Furious About DeepSeek - https://rb.gy/wdrgrpGoogle AI Mode - https://9to5google.com/2025/02/05/google-search-ai-mode-testing/ - https://searchengineland.com/google-search-testing-ai-mode-451672Meta Building Global Internet Cable - https://tinyurl.com/2kmecez8AI brain decoder - https://tinyurl.com/yn4kffk9New AI models - https://chat.qwen.ai/ & https://chat.mistral.ai/chatTikTok SEO update - https://tinyurl.com/4xzn7dn8Google ask for me - https://tinyurl.com/4kmypcykAI robot dancing - https://tinyurl.com/5csrc76zGoogle Maps blocks Gulf of America reviews - https://tinyurl.com/5d855cv8Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI1997 internet shopping - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXvpbpbPCoAI statement from Anthropic - https://tinyurl.com/4wzntkyjUK and US refuse to sign AI declaration - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8edn0n58gwoAI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ - https://tinyurl.com/3eswk5h4Don't Update Lastmod Date - https://tinyurl.com/4ajzu8nwAudio on content - https://tinyurl.com/msxjy6h8QRG: Filler content - https://tinyurl.com/ycyb5m2xGoogle Publisher Center changes - https://tinyurl.com/ymu2ucbnSam Altman & AGI - https://tinyurl.com/nr6uzvaxDeepSeek users in USA - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/deepseek-ai-us-ban-prison-b2692396.htmlGoogle's volatility - https://tinyurl.com/5b9fbafs AI Mentions In Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines - https://tinyurl.com/muxxfv2mGoogle Updates Product Markup - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-updates-product-markup-to-support-member-pricing-sales/539786/Steven Adler expresses concern - https://tinyurl.com/3aw8cz6xSam Altman enrages Elon Musk - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/openai-elon-musk-bid-sam-altman-b2695830.htmlAI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/04/ai-godfather-predicts-another-revolution-in-the-tech-in-next-five-yearsSEO Office Hours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctn9hzypHhU&t=449s

Host: Sean Barber - / https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanrbarber/ - He & Him The video covers a wide range of SEO and AI news, including Google's search updates—such as the removal of breadcrumbs on mobile, new review snippet guidelines, and blocking SEO tools with JavaScript—alongside AI industry shifts like Meta replacing fact-checkers with community notes, NVIDIA’s market drop due to a Chinese AI chatbot, and OpenAI’s agent developments. We also explore the tech industry's business influence, including Google and Microsoft’s donations to Trump and the UK's AI investment plans, as well as key SEO and search trends, such as insights from Google’s Knowledge Graph API, Yahoo's AI-driven search expansion, and HubSpot’s SEO traffic collapse. Watch / listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4gZGaF7Yn0McSgmPsOA9Bz?si=qhV0Bw9rTDK0fSXuWNL3VQ Video Links - ChatGPT Scheduled Tasks - https://shorturl.at/fUmtC Meta Ditching Fact Checkers - https://shorturl.at/RVC0K - https://shorturl.at/RMWEe Google Gives To Trump - https://shorturl.at/zEQH8 AI Brad Pitt - https://rb.gy/ktg14o Elon Musk On AI Data - https://rb.gy/1hz7g7 Bing Hides Google - https://rb.gy/5skzew Mark Williams - Cook On Majestic - https://majestic.com/seo-in-2025/mark-williams-cook Google On Robot.txt Files - https://rb.gy/krwiig Video - GOOGLE's Ultimate Goal? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqdi1xjtys4 Video - How to send an 'E mail' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szdbKz5CyhA Stargate Program - https://tinyurl.com/mrxuk2hb Google And Gulf Of Mexico - https://tinyurl.com/3hda3jw4 Nvidia Shares - https://tinyurl.com/mr2xf6ft Knowledge Graph API - https://audits.com/tools/knowledge-graph-search/ Yahoo Search Updates - https://tinyurl.com/2xee6w3v Google Breadcrumbs - https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2025/01/simplifying-breadcrumbs Marie Haynes LinkedIn Post - https://tinyurl.com/2wtdb37k UK AI Plans - https://tinyurl.com/68kpyuhy Sara Taher LinkedIn Post - https://tinyurl.com/2c476rpc Barry Adams LinkedIn Post - https://tinyurl.com/2j56rcvr Google About Reviews - https://tinyurl.com/yu3jer2u US v Google Court Case - https://tinyurl.com/yarj9mbz Google Rejects EU - https://tinyurl.com/2t27yrbb British Novelists & AI - https://tinyurl.com/4wm9pz52 OpenAI Operator - https://tinyurl.com/3r6ueec4 LinkedIn Job Report - https://tinyurl.com/y49a6ce6 Will Reynolds LinkedIn Post - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wilreynolds_google-beat-yahoo-by-focusing-on-simple-activity-7287478812404056064-0K4e?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android Google & AP Deal - https://apnews.com/article/google-gemini-ai-associated-press-ap-0b57bcf8c80dd406daa9ba916adacfaf Google Detects AI Content - https://tinyurl.com/mw2vvsmt Deepseek - https://tinyurl.com/bpapmvfv Google Requiring Javascript - https://tinyurl.com/ykepw7n3 Hubspot Traffic - https://tinyurl.com/5n8xscux - https://searchengineland.com/ex-hubspotters-reveal-5-seo-insights-about-hubspots-traffic-woes-451195 Rand Fishkin Bluesky Post - https://bsky.app/profile/randfish.bsky.social/post/3lgli2uma7s2o Predicting The Future Of Online Search - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/predicting-future-online-search-content-creators-laura-giunta-tobin-7uief/?trackingId=pLj29cD9RUuefgZSSq9zOg%3D%3D