Publishing
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- The Industry
Turkey orders Google to let publishers opt out of AI summaries
Publishers can now keep their pages out of Google's AI summaries without losing ordinary search, and a shared robots.txt rule for AI training is coming in 2027. Each of these settings includes a site until the site changes it.
- The Industry
Everything That Was Announced During Cloudflare's Birthday Week
Cloudflare published nearly 40 posts for its 2026 Birthday Week. Here is which ones change something for a business that runs a website or pays for AI, what to do about each, and which you can skip.
- Agents & Tooling
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.
- Security & Risk
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.
- Agents & Tooling
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 Optimisation, if you prefer. The…
- Agents & Tooling
WordPress Just Opened the Floodgates
AI agents can now write and publish directly to WordPress. Quality control just became the only thing that matters.
- Working with AI
SoN 23: One Year of Writing About AI
One Year of Writing About AI, Five Months of Actually Filtering It A year ago, I started writing “The Download”—a newsletter about tech, productivity, and emerging AI tools. By…
- Working with AI
Why I Moved My Newsletter to Wednesdays (And You Should Optimize Your Timing Too)
Data-driven timing optimization beats guesswork every time.
- Agents & Tooling
Why AI-Powered Search Is Replacing Google
Greetings from rainy and wet Valencia, where I’ve been deep in research mode for my latest project. This has me thinking about how dramatically our research methods have evolved…
- Working with AI
💾 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 through a hell of a tough time…
- Working with AI
💾 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 Arts and Sciences, so this…
