Jim Hunt is a technical SEO architect and digital engineer specializing in search visibility for industrial-scale brands. With over a decade of experience in the "State of Search," he focuses on the intersection of technical performance and AI-first discovery.
AI search destination domains reveal a different web than traditional Google search. Clickstream data from Q4 2025 shows GitHub at #3 after AI search (absent from Google top 15), while Wikipedia and Facebook dominate Google but vanish from AI destinations.
A zero-click search is any Google search session where the user doesn't click on any result. They search, see the results page, and either leave Google...
Google AI Mode is a conversational AI interface within Google Search that allows users to have multi-turn conversations about their search queries. Here is what it means for SEO strategy in 2026.
ChatGPT draws from two primary sources when generating responses: the data it was trained on and real-time web browsing. Understanding what triggers a citation gives you a framework for earning them.
ChatGPT has climbed to the 7th most-visited domain after a Google search, up from 9th last quarter. The Datos/SparkToro data shows AI tools are becoming a routine part of how people navigate the web.
AI search tools roughly doubled their share of desktop activity in 2025. The headline number gets repeated everywhere, but the context behind it tells a more nuanced story about what actually changed.