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How to rank in AI Overviews on Google and beyond
Growing up, the only “top 10” I cared about was MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL). When I started working, that became the top 10 results in the Google SERP. Now, my eyes are set even higher as we marketers explore how to rank in AI Overviews. According to Google, AI Overviews (aka position zero) now reach 1.5 billion monthly users across 200 countries, and it’s affecting both website traffic and marketing results. The good news? This isn’t a reason to panic. AI Overviews reward clarity, structure
How to optimize for AI overviews (AIOs): A complete 2026 playbook
Google AI Overviews appear in Google Search results for a growing share of queries, and if your content isn’t structured to earn a citation, you’re losing visibility to competitors who’ve already adapted. Unfortunately, the challenge isn’t awareness. Most SEO leaders know AI Overviews exist. The challenge is execution: translating Google’s deliberately vague guidance into repeatable content workflows, measuring whether your AI website optimizations are actually earning citations, and proving bus
X looks to improve its incentives for original creators
<p>The moves will also help X to clean up its data streams which power its AI projects. </p>
LinkedIn shares video creation tips based on platform trends
<p>LinkedIn has shared tips on posting frequency and video content. </p>
YouTube updates unique reach calculation, adds music for still image posts
<p>The updated metric aims to better account for CTV, which often has multiple viewers per session. </p>
TikTok announces expanded partnership with Universal Music Group
<p>The deal will help to facilitate expanded discovery for UMG artists in the app. </p>
Meta launches new group-focused Forum app
<p>The app separates Facebook Group activity into its own platform. </p>
Show HN: Smithereen – an early-Facebook-style Fediverse server
Hey! I'm Gregory Klyushnikov, a former lead Android developer at VKontakte, Russia's Facebook. And I hate enshittification with a burning passion. I quit in 2016 because the mismatch in values with the new management started driving me crazy.My core issue with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, VKontakte, and other commercial, centralized social network services is that they all eventually drift away from "staying updated on your friends' lives" towards "getting world ne
Ask HN: Are there any social media sites that are AI positive?
In particular, do any encourage the use of AI to write on your behalf like a secretary would do for their boss?
Ask HN: Why disparage AI while attributing ideas to AI when written with it?
This is something that I see done all the time on social media.<p>If you write up an idea you had with AI, people will say that the idea came from AI. And yet these same people will also disparage AIs abilities.<p>This seems contradictory to me.
Amandla Stenberg Talks Jaden Smith And Social Meda In "Dazed"
Amandla 4eva!
The Power Of "Like"
Reuters reports that CNN may gobble up Mashable, the giant social media blog, for a princely sum. The closest thing anyone has to confirmation, though, is a tiny Facebook toggle: "There was a social media hint about the potential acquisition early Monday morning when Adam Ostrow, the executive editor of Mashable, “liked” on Facebook Mr. Salmon’s story for Reuters."
Three Jurors Dismissed In Aurora Shooting Trial For Exposure To Social Media, News Reports
<b>Judge Carlos Samour has regularly throughout the trial reminded jurors they must avoid all discussion and outside information on court proceedings.</b> Twelve alternates are seated with the 12 jurors, so the trial will continue.
Facebook's Friend Request Logo Has Had A Feminist Redesign
The female silhouette is no longer in the shadow of the male in the friends icon.
34 Times Taika Waititi Had The Best Damn Social Media In 2017
In a year full of garbage men, thank Odin for Taika Waititi.
Yvette Nicole Brown Called Susan Sarandon A "Horrible Woman" On Social Media
"I hope life continues to be as hard for her."
Turns Out, Trump's After-Hours Social Media Rampages Might Actually Have A Reason
The president frequently goes on overnight posting sprees on his Truth Social platform. Here's what that might reveal.
As the AI Battle Rages, Yusuf Mehdi Becomes the Latest Microsoft Veteran to Walk
After 35 years with the company, the chief consumer marketing officer will leave next year.
Stephen Colbert’s Late Show Finale Is His Biggest Weeknight Episode Ever
The Late Show averaged 6.7 million viewers, as Colbert took his final bow.
How Recurrent Ventures Rebuilt Itself
The media company recently sold off half of its identity, part of a broader strategy to create a tighter, more durable business around military and auto.