The lights are on but nobody’s home. The engine’s running but no one’s driving. The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead. Pick your preferred idiom for unattended automations run amok. (“The Wi-Fi’s on, but there’s no Internet.”) Over the past weeks, I encountered AI agents and automation at two separate martech companies — as a customer of one and a pseudo-prospect for the other — that leaned toward the “annoyingly efficient” upper-left quadrant of … Close encounters with zombie martech automations and AI agents — just in time for Halloween Continue Reading »

YouTube is launching a timeline editor for Shorts that shows clips, overlays, and audio in one view, with drag-and-drop trimming, reordering, and zoom.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google local results without the call button…

This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday are Simchat Torah and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14th and October 15th.

Looking to turn an AI tool into a competitive SEO advantage? These expert-level prompts show where leaders can save time and sharpen strategy.
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Some GA4 users report seeing “Analytics Advisor,” a conversational AI interface in Google Analytics.
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