As AI search reshapes how customers discover and evaluate brands, tools like Profound are gaining attention for helping marketers measure visibility within AI-generated answers. But, as budgets tighten, new AI visibility features emerge, and integration demands increase, many teams are actively seeking alternatives to Profound AI.
A major new tool for X-ray research has entered service at BESSY II. Developed through a collaboration between HZB, MPI-CEC (Mühlheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany), and NIST (Boulder CO, USA), the instrument is the first and only TES spectrometer operating at a synchrotron facility in Europe.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (FL) speaks on Day 3 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 17, 2024.
(L/R) Congressional candidates Brad Lander and Claire Valdez, US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani raise their joined hands during the "Our Team, Our Year" Get Out The Vote (GOTV) rally at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, on June 18, 2026.
Talk to any real car enthusiast, and they'll probably agree that vans rule. That's true whether we're talking about minivans, cargo vans, kei vans, funky MPVs or anything in-between. Passenger vans are still rather popular in the U.S., but they've become mostly boring family vehicles with a "soccer parent" stigma. For years, us enthusiasts have been lamenting our country's lack of futuristic high-end vans, watching from afar as China and Europe have seen scores of cool new vans get introduced. But now, for the first time, we're getting a luxury van in the U.S., and it's coming from Mercedes-Benz.
Knowing how to rank in search engines and how to rank in AI search results are two different games now.
As of early 2026, BrightEdge found AI Overviews appear in roughly 48% of tracked Google searches, and prevalence climbs as high as 100% for healthcare and treatment queries. ChatGPT handles over a billion queries per week, while Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini are routing millions of searches every day without a single click.
In 2007, when this website was still in its infancy, I shared a recipe for a layered strawberry chiffon shortcake. I’d never made a chiffon cake before, but I brought it to a friend’s rooftop birthday BBQ, correctly assuming that no one would be unhappy with a towering, featherweight cake sandwiched with whipped cream and fresh strawberries, however inexpertly made.
Only about one in three students say their school has a school-wide AI policy, yet students across the country are already using AI to complete assignments, study for exams, and make decisions about their daily lives. Aleta Margolis, founder and president of the Center for Inspired Teaching, has spent three decades coaching teachers to ask better questions and listen more carefully to students. She argues in a recent EdSurge piece that the policy conversation cannot come first: the human conversation has to.