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AI Search: News, Updates, Tips & Audits
How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode find and cite sources, and what it means for your visibility, traffic and content strategy.
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Latest AI Search news, tips & guides
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Full timeline →Recent AI Search updates
- AI searchGoogle AI Mode (2025)
Full conversational search mode inside Google (see Google SEO timeline).
- AI searchChatGPT Search (2024)
ChatGPT began searching the web live and citing sources.
- AI searchGoogle AI Overviews (2024)
AI summaries at the top of Google results (see Google SEO timeline).
- AI search (test)Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) (2023)
Google's AI search test in Labs; became AI Overviews.
- AI searchBing Chat (now Copilot) (2023)
Microsoft added GPT-powered chat answers with citations to Bing.
- Platform eventChatGPT Launch (2022)
OpenAI released ChatGPT; the start of mainstream AI answers.
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All 11 terms →AI Search jargon, explained
Where to start
- What is this all about? Read AEO explained and SEO vs AEO vs GEO.
- Want to be cited? Follow how to get cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews.
- Check where you stand: run the AI search visibility audit.
- Measure it: track AI search traffic in GA4.
What we cover
AI assistants and AI search features now answer many questions that once sent people to websites. They still rely on web content, retrieved from search indexes and cited as sources. We cover product launches and changes from Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Perplexity and others, explain what they mean for publishers and businesses, and keep a dated timeline of AI search milestones.
Frequently asked questions
Does AI search replace SEO?
No. AI search tools depend on crawlable, indexed, trustworthy content, which is what SEO builds. What changes is how visibility is measured and which content earns clicks.