by Carolyn Holzman | Mar 30, 2026 | Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)
The “Thriving” Spam in 2026 In March 2026, as Google’s Core and Spam updates tore through the search results, a startling field observation emerged in the aftermath: a five-year-old “Fake Local News” site was not just surviving the volatility,...
by Carolyn Holzman | Mar 30, 2026 | Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)
The “Rented” Visibility Trap What the Scrunch Data Actually Reveals About Citation Decay In March 2026, the Scrunch study of 3.5 million AI citation events revealed a “brutal” new reality for the industry: the average AI citation loses 50% of...
by Carolyn Holzman | Mar 30, 2026 | Signal Intelligence (SIGINT)
The “Brutal” Reality of AI Search in 2026: The VizzEx ADC Assessment In March 2026, Chris Long of Nectiv shared his observations of changes Chat GPT has brought to search by how “It evaluates WAY more sources + looks for trust/authority signals.” Our industry is...