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The Evolution of AI and SEO: Adapting to New Search Behaviors

Brightedge

As we focus on search, we can see that AI in search has evolved from the introduction of expert systems (think PageRank in 2010), rules engines, data science, neural networks, and much more! Fast forward to the present era of ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard, and all Generative AI applications, and what do we see?

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A Brief History of Search & SEO

Hubspot

It was in that same paper that Page and Brin first mentioned PageRank, the technology that Google uses to help rank search results based on quality, and not keywords alone. That’s partially because PageRank was based on the number of inbound links to a given page -- the more of those, the higher the ranking. 2010-Present.

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