In this episode

• Google Business Profile management inside Gemini is now officially live.
• New Semrush study: ChatGPT cites almost entirely different sources when it thinks harder.
• Cloudflare gave every customer, including free plans, separate controls for AI search bots, agent bots, and training bots.
• Google finished its June 2026 spam update, and it was fast.
• Security warning: a fake Perplexity Chrome extension was caught spying on searches.
• Rumor watch: An SEO consultant (Glenn Gabe) posted an observation that a site effectively dead in Google rankings is being cited thousands of times in ChatGPT and Copilot answers because it ranks in Bing, which feeds those tools.