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- Most of the sources behind Perplexity's software recommendations sit outside the top 100,000 websites
Trellner put 380 software categories to Perplexity and kept every citation. 59.8% pointed at domains ranked worse than #100,000, and most of the evidence came from the long tail.
- Substack Writers, You Need a Website
Substack is a distribution tool, not a home. A 478-point Hacker News post makes the case for POSSE — publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere else — and it holds up.
- SoN 2.23: Google says you can skip the 'AEO' hacks
Ooh, Shiny New Tech Acronym... You might have seen this acronym doing the rounds: AEO. Answer Engine Optimisation — or GEO, Generative Engine…
- WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
AI agents can now write and publish directly to WordPress. Quality control just became the only thing that matters.
- SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI
October 8th, 2025 Dear Reader, One Year of Writing About AI, Five Months of Actually Filtering It A year ago, I started writing “The Download”—a…
- Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
Data-driven timing optimization beats guesswork every time.
- Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
The AI Download #016 March 14th, 2025 Greetings from rainy and wet Valencia, where I’ve been deep in research mode for my latest project. This has me…
- 💾 The Download #004: First AI services available, Notion Marketplace and more.
#004 Hey Reader 👋🏻, While I normally kick off these newsletters with a note about the weather, it should already be known that Valencia is going…
- 💾 The Download #003: Updates on Perplexity, Claude’s Anthropic, reflections on creating my “digital twin” and more.
#003 Dear Reader, Greetings again from an incredibly muggy Valencia. Yesterday and today I'm attending the VDS 2024 Tech Conference at the City of…
