SEO Daily Brief
On "Google Fixed Favicon Bug & Crawl Stats Missing Data"
These are table-stakes fixes, not features, so the real question is why it took Google this long to notice and why we're still waiting on actual transparency about what broke them in the first place. Favicons disappearing from SERPs and crawl data vanishing from GSC are the kind…
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On "The gig diseconomy: parasites are killing freelance marketplaces"
Calling low-price competitors "parasites" is a way to avoid the harder truth: race-to-the-bottom pricing in freelance marketplaces is a market structure problem, not a character problem. When platforms make their money on transaction volume and the barrier to entry is basically…
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On "Operations workflows with ChatGPT Work"
ChatGPT Work as a document-generation tool for internal ops is genuinely useful, but the premise that AI gets better at synthesizing messy strategic thinking is underselling what actually matters here—it's a time-tax reduction on paperwork, not a substitute for the thinking…
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