Author: Ryuzaki

Google DeepMind launched Nano Banana Pro, the next-gen version of its earlier Nano Banana image model and the image system powering Gemini 3 Pro. The upgrade brings sharper text rendering, richer world knowledge, higher consistency across edits, and more precise creative controls — all aimed at producing studio-quality visuals from even the roughest ideas. Why we care. Nano Banana Pro is built to help anyone — casual creators, designers, advertisers, developers, filmmakers — go from concept to polished visual with far more accuracy, reasoning, and control than previous models allowed. It can: Generate context-rich educational visuals, grounded in real-world data…

Search performance is shifting across industries as AI systems increasingly answer first and link later, changing how brands earn visibility and attribution.  You now have to think beyond rankings and focus on how your brand is interpreted and cited inside AI-generated results. Answer engine optimization (AEO) has moved from emerging concept to required practice.  Structure, clarity, and credibility now function as core visibility signals that help large language models interpret, summarize, and confidently present content. The implications are universal, but not uniform. In retail, AEO reshapes product discovery.  In healthcare, it tests accuracy and compliance.  In publishing, it challenges monetization…

Google announced new branded queries filters are rolling out gradually within Google Search Console reporting. You can filter your performance reports by branded or non-branded queries and Google can show you the percentage of branded versus non-branded traffic driven to your site from Google Search. This was first introduced at the Google Search Central event in Tel Aviv today, so this news leaked from there first. What are branded queries. Google defined what it considers a branded query. Google wrote: A branded query is a query that includes your brand name (for example, Google), variations or misspellings of the brand…

Today’s consumers get pulled in a thousand different directions online: Scrolling YouTube Shorts. Tracking TikTok influencer content. Browsing Gmail promotions. Deciding whether the latest viral Facebook video is real or AI. And that’s all before lunch.  Once, the path between intent and conversion was nearly a straight line.  Now, in our new attention economy, constant advertising noise makes buying decisions much more complex.  Most advertisers, however, have not adjusted to this new dynamic.  They’re only focused on showing up when intent is obvious in search, missing entire audiences who never reach the search bar. Google’s Demand Gen campaigns help advertisers…

For much of its history, marketing thrived on creativity, intuition and an almost magical ability to connect with audiences. Campaigns were conceived in brainstorming sessions, executed over weeks or months and celebrated (or dissected) once the results rolled in.  Theodore Levitt’s “The Marketing Imagination” stays on most marketers’ bookcases alongside their team’s awards. Much of the technology we buy inside marketing is mostly isolated and gives fractal views of the customer, never a complete one and never of the customer in motion (with or without us). The one platform to solve it all has been the misnomer we have been…

Historically, Google Search has driven innovation by rewarding high-quality content with visibility and traffic. In the last article in this series, we talked about the risks of Google AI over-personalizing results and reinforcing filter bubbles.  In this article, we’ll look at the opposite risk. If Google’s new AI results skew away from diversity and towards standardized results that favor big brands and consensus views, it could limit creativity and innovation and accelerate the commodification of the web. Some may find this concern naive because the internet is already very commodified, but historically, even small websites and businesses believed that they…

With AI Max for Search now widely available in beta, advertisers are debating everything from performance comparisons to how it plays with existing keyword structures. Google Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin is stepping in to clarify what AI Max is — and what it isn’t. What AI Max is designed to do. AI Max aims to unlock incremental conversions or conversion value — not replace or compete with your current keyword setup. It expands reach using broad match logic and keywordless matching (think DSA-style crawling of your landing pages). It pairs that with dynamic creative optimization, including text customization and Final…

Embracing Intimacy in Your Golden Years: A Guide to Senior Romance and Sex As we age, the importance of intimacy, love, and connection often remains, if not intensifies. For many seniors, the idea of forming new relationships and sustaining older ones can be both exciting and daunting. This exploration into senior sex and relationships aims to empower individuals aged 60 and above, highlighting the significance of intimacy while addressing some common concerns. The Reality of Senior Relationships It’s a common misconception that romance and sexual activity fade away as we age. In fact, studies show that a significant percentage of…

Automation has shaped PPC for decades, and the landscape keeps shifting. I’ve seen that evolution firsthand, from helping build the first AdWords Editor to developing early Google Ads scripts and writing about automation layering. Now we’re entering another major transition.  As AI changes how we search and get answers, it’s also transforming how automation itself gets built.  And this time, the momentum isn’t coming from ad platforms like Google – it’s coming from AI companies like OpenAI. Until recently, AI mostly helped with human language tasks like writing ad copy, summaries, or reports.  But the latest generation of LLMs can…

Leading SEO platform Semrush – the company that acquired Search Engine Land, MarTech, and Third Door Media in October 2024 – is being acquired by software company Adobe. Adobe announced the acquisition today. The all-cash deal is valued at about $1.9 billion and is expected to close in the first half of 2026, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals. What Semrush is saying. Andrew Warden, Semrush’s chief marketing officer, shared this on LinkedIn: Big news: Semrush has agreed to be acquired by Adobe.It’s a winning combination:Adobe brings leading customer experience orchestration in the agentic AI era with its content supply chain…