Research, guides & workflows
Latest work by Abdessalam Alaoui
Evidence-led articles for publishers, marketers, founders, and SEO practitioners who need a clear decision—not another pile of terminology.
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OpenAI’s Agents API now combines long-running web search with an OpenAI-hosted browser. Publishers can measure server events and outcomes without assuming a crawler identity.
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OpenAI’s Data agent can work across approved warehouses, files and BI tools while applying a team’s metric definitions and access rules. That changes where SEO reporting errors can be caught.
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Several site owners reported sudden zeroes in Bing Webmaster data after August 31. No official incident was found, so diagnosis must separate five possible failure paths.
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Google Search profiles can gather a publisher’s articles, videos and social posts and add a follow action. Initial eligibility and control remain limited.
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Google’s August 2026 spam update ran globally from August 18 to August 21. A traffic change in that window is a clue, not a diagnosis.
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Mistral’s agentic retrieval layer can search, open, navigate, read and grep across ingested documents. Its benchmark claims are promising but vendor-reported.
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A third-party report says AI-generated People Also Ask answers reached 97% of its English-language sample. Here is what the number can support and how to audit it.
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Interpret Merchant Center AI share of voice, stage and product signals, then test optional conversational attributes without confusing visibility with revenue.
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The W3C commerce workshop exposed a stack, not one standard: transaction protocols, product data, identity, consent, payment and trust still need to interoperate.
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