SEO Daily Brief
On "AI for Societal Impact"
Google's "societal impact" framing is doing heavy PR work—it lets them showcase AI applications without engaging the actual hard questions about who profits from AI deployment, labor displacement, or whether communities actually consent to being test cases. For practitioners,…
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On "Gemini Live audio"
Google's speech-to-speech models are real competition now, but the win here isn't the tech—it's that they're making it trivial to build on top of. A web UI you can prototype in minutes shifts the game from "which model is technically better" to "which one your users will…
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On "Google Adds New Ad Experience Metrics To CrUX Report"
Google's basically weaponizing UX metrics against publishers who rely on ad revenue, and calling it a feature. These new ad experience signals in CrUX aren't neutral data—they're a direct incentive to de-monetize or throttle ads, which benefits Google's own ad products while…
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