Author name: Mike SEO

Research teams in 2026 are drowning in sources: papers, preprints, internal docs, vendor updates, and real-time signals. The bottleneck isn’t finding information—it’s turning it into a defensible answer fast: traceable citations, cross-source consistency, and conclusions that survive review. Traditional RAG retrieves passages and summarizes them, but it still behaves like a single-shot pipeline. Agentic RAG upgrades retrieval…

Google is testing ads in AI Mode as Search revenue grew 17% to $63 billion. AI Mode queries run 3x longer than traditional searches.
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Google confirmed there is a bug with AI Overviews not showing links for some responses. The bug was spotted by Lily Ray, who posted some examples several hours ago. Rajan Patel, Google’s VP, Engineering for Search, replied saying it is a bug and Google is working on fixing it.

In my quest to ensure my site passes CWV, I’m continually finding new ways to keep the site running as fast as possible. One opportunity I found was to use Base64 inline images as placeholders for lazy loading. Base64 image inlining is a technique that allows developers to embed image data directly into HTML or…