How search is changing.
A running account of how AI is rewriting search: original thinking, live experiments, and the lessons that surface in the work itself.
94% of B2B SaaS Homepages Prove They're Credible. Only 13% Say Who They're For.
We ran 100 B2B SaaS homepages through the same six-question test. Nearly all prove they're credible; almost none say who they're for, and directness falls off a cliff as companies scale.
Jason Gilbert · 9 min read
What Actually Happens When AI Reads Your Website
A model doesn't read your website. It takes it apart. Pages become chunks, chunks become vectors, and somewhere in that translation it decides which sentences it trusts enough to repeat. We followed one page through the whole process, and what came back changed how we write.
Jennifer Foust · 10 min read
The Paragraph Is the New Page
AI doesn't retrieve pages; it retrieves passages. Why the paragraph is now the unit that decides whether you're found.
Sarah Gilbert · 7 min read
How to Refresh Old Content for LLMs
Outdated pages don't sit quietly. AI systems pull them, restate them as current fact, and hand them to your customers with confidence. Here's how to refresh old content so LLMs cite the right version of you.
Sarah Gilbert · 8 min read
How a Machine Sees Meaning
Before AI can decide what to cite, it has to grasp what your words mean. A plain-language tour of embeddings, the step that turns writing into something a model can weigh.
Jason Gilbert · 9 min read
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