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DEJAN

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2026 81

  1. We rewrote the alt text on Google Store's Pixel Watch 5 page. Its images went from a 30% to an 84% match.
  2. We Trained AI. Now AI Trains Us.
  3. Google sends Knowledge Graph facts to AI Mode as uncited "Biography" search results
  4. New Feature: Grounding Snippet Ablation
  5. DeepSeek Search Engine
  6. We Tested an AI for Signs of Inner Experience. Nobody's Home.
  7. Gemini 4 Argon's personality: no hype, hard facts, fewer tables
  8. Finding High-Value Converting Queries That Mainstream Tools Miss
  9. Chrome Decisions API: the prompts, limits, engines and code reviews behind DecisionModel
  10. Link Building & Outreach for AI Search
  11. Why we don't do prompt tracking.
  12. Gemini 4 Argon - One Step Closer to 'Model as an Employee' Paradigm
  13. Fanout Vectors
  14. AI Mode Tags: FollowUp, Generate, Layout, Entity List and @prompt_leaks.ignore
  15. Google's Approach to Recursive Self-Improvement
  16. Fanout V2: From Paraphrastic Collapse to Complementary Set
  17. Impact of Parametric Memory and Grounding on Ordinal Positioning of Brands in Generative Responses
  18. AI Influence With Confidence Threshold Manipulation
  19. How did the 1955 plan for AI go? Surprisingly well!
  20. Your 'Gmail' can write code.
  21. Semantic Image Optimizer
  22. What is Nvidia up to buying Hugging Face and Groq?
  23. Relax. Google won't penalize all AI generated content.
  24. Invisible ai
  25. Site fanouts
  26. Ox alpha
  27. Introducing dejan chat protocol
  28. Parametric memory impacts brands
  29. Crawler census robots llms okf
  30. Gemma gemini embeddings
  31. Bard gemma
  32. Gemma neurosurgery
  33. https://dejan.ai/blog/xm/
  34. Ai vs human test results
  35. Newtail
  36. Rank signal recipe
  37. Agi china
  38. Reddit ai
  39. The verge analysis
  40. Engadget analysis
  41. Brave ai search
  42. Average paradox
  43. Ecommerce optimization engine
  44. Coe
  45. Cascading hallucination
  46. Grounding citation mention
  47. Chrome context gemini
  48. Linkjebert
  49. Generative self retrieval
  50. Ai visibility
  51. The open knowledge format okf
  52. Ai seo
  53. Aeo
  54. Aio
  55. Geo
  56. Relevance engineering
  57. Selection rate optimization
  58. Grounding snippets
  59. Primary bias
  60. Teaching a model to reason before it learns to talk
  61. How search grounding biased an llm against youtube
  62. Grounding
  63. Emotions gemma
  64. Googles still doesnt see your live page
  65. Explore Complete Case Studies
  66. Gemma 4 brand authority map
  67. Google shopping classifier
  68. Brands
  69. Turboquant
  70. Latent entities
  71. Fanout query analysis
  72. Reverse prompting
  73. Rufus
  74. Query length vs volume
  75. Search grounding is transient
  76. Sro grounding snippets
  77. Implicit queries in ai search
  78. What extraction method is google using to build grounding snippets
  79. Ai spam
  80. Sorry google i was wrong
  81. Webmcp

2025 106

  1. Most people dont read
  2. Bias and prejudice in ai search
  3. Googles trajectory 2026 and beyond
  4. Googles ranking signals
  5. Googles ai schema
  6. How big are googles grounding chunks
  7. Dvl
  8. Grounding snippet extraction tool
  9. How long are web pages
  10. How user prompts shape your content visibility in ai search
  11. Ai mode content search index
  12. Google ai search update completely new grounding format
  13. Report ai workplace
  14. How do people use ai assistants
  15. Ricursive
  16. Better clustering
  17. Advanced prompting techniques
  18. Ai bots
  19. Gemini 3 hallucinates fan out queries
  20. Ai seo deep dive tom critchlow dan petrovic
  21. How gpt sees the web
  22. Openais sparse circuits breakthrough and what it means for ai seo
  23. Blockrank
  24. In ai seo 10 is the new 1
  25. Browsing vs content fetcher
  26. Ai search filter
  27. Purchase intent
  28. Claude system internals
  29. Caps
  30. Ai reveal
  31. Ai search citation mining
  32. Timesfm icf
  33. Rexbert
  34. Chrome screen ai protos
  35. Deconstructing domdistiller how chromes reader mode algorithm impacts technical seo
  36. Annotated page content apc
  37. A technical seos adaptation for ai visibility
  38. Llm is a presentation layer in ai search
  39. Gemini app tools a technical overview
  40. Embeddinggemma
  41. https://dejan.ai/blog/sr/
  42. Ai boom
  43. Ai overviews dialogflow agent
  44. Fan out query search volume prediction using deep learning
  45. Comment bots
  46. Chrome help me write
  47. Tree walker
  48. Does schema help with ai
  49. Inside chromes semantic engine a technical analysis of history embeddings
  50. Your website is about to start talking are you ready for this
  51. What does an SEO do in the AI age?
  52. Understanding and Control
  53. People call them AI. That’s it.
  54. GPT-5 Made SEO Irreplaceable
  55. Google’s Query Fan-Out System – A Technical Overview
  56. GPT-5 System Prompt
  57. Journalism Is Dead. Say Hello to Gournalism.
  58. Human Friendly Content is AI Friendly Content
  59. Analysis of Gemini Embed Task-Based Dimensionality Deltas
  60. Dynamic per-label thresholds for large-scale search query classification with Otsu’s method
  61. Prompt Engineer’s Guide to Gemini Schemas
  62. Top 10 Most Recent Papers by MUVERA Authors
  63. Training Gemma‑3‑1B Embedding Model with LoRA
  64. Training a Query Fan-Out Model
  65. Cosine Similarity or Dot Product?
  66. Universal Query Classifier
  67. Another failed attempt to kill SEO
  68. Vector Embedding Optimization
  69. There’s a small army of on-device models coming to Chrome
  70. Dissecting Gemini’s Tokenizer and Token Scores
  71. Query Fan-Out Prompt Implementation in Google’s Open-Source Agentic Framework
  72. Multi-Step Research Agent
  73. AI Mode Site Search
  74. What is GEO?
  75. From Hallucinations to Clicks
  76. AI Mode & Page Indexing
  77. AI Mode is Not Live Web
  78. The Future of Google
  79. AI Mode Internals
  80. How AI Mode Selects Snippets
  81. The Inner Workings of GPT’s file_search Tool
  82. Live Blog: Hacking Gemini Embeddings
  83. Google’s New URL Context Tool
  84. LLM-Based Search Volume Prediction
  85. Google Lens Modes
  86. How Google grounds its LLM, Gemini.
  87. Content Substance Classification
  88. Chrome’s New Embedding Model: Smaller, Faster, Same Quality
  89. I think Google got it wrong with “Generate → Ground” approach.
  90. AI Content Detection
  91. Introducing Grounding Classifier
  92. Advanced Interpretability Techniques for Tracing LLM Activations
  93. Probability Threshold for Top-p (Nucleus) Sampling
  94. Temperature Parameter for Controlling AI Randomness
  95. Strategic Brand Positioning in LLMs: A Methodological Framework for Prompt Engineering and Model Behavior Analysis
  96. Neural Circuit Analysis Framework for Brand Mention Optimization
  97. Cross-Model Circuit Analysis: Gemini vs. Gemma Comparison Framework
  98. How Google Decides When to Use Gemini Grounding for User Queries
  99. AlexNet: The Deep Learning Breakthrough That Reshaped Google’s AI Strategy
  100. The Next Chapter of Search: Get Ready to Influence the Robots
  101. Revealed: The exact search result data sent to Google’s AI.
  102. Beyond Rank Tracking: Analyzing Brand Perceptions Through Language Model Association Networks
  103. Teaching AI Models to Be Better Search Engines: A New Approach to Training Data
  104. Self-Supervised Quantized Representation for KG-LLM Integration
  105. What does Gemini think about your brand?
  106. Google’s Privacy Sandbox: Navigating the Cookieless Future

2024 21

  1. Why deep learning works.
  2. Introducing VecZip: Embedding Compression Algorithm
  3. Site Engagement Metrics
  4. Beyond Links: Understanding Page Transitions in Chrome
  5. Both humans and AI return similar results when asked for a random number
  6. Chrome AI Frameworks & Models
  7. The State of AI
  8. Attention Is All You Need
  9. Ilo
  10. Query Intent via Retrieval Augmentation and Model Distillation
  11. Resource-Efficient Binary Vector Embeddings With Matryoshka Representation Learning
  12. Search Query Quality Classifier
  13. Gemini System Prompt
  14. How Gemini Selects Results
  15. Query found to be the biggest predictor of CTR delta.
  16. Introducing Dejan Re-Ranking Algorithm
  17. How ChatGPT Search Results Work
  18. Product Image Optimisation With Chrome's Convolutional Neural Network
  19. A Complete List of Google's Autocomplete Signals in Chrome
  20. Chrome + Gemini Nano = Offline & Private AI
  21. I have one thing to say.

2023 1

  1. Data Behind May 2023 Algorithm Update

2022 2

  1. I just outranked The White House for their own content.
  2. Here's how to see impressions for anyone's Google Maps listing.

2020 4

  1. Survey Results: Would Google users find paywall label useful?
  2. Organic vs Paid - Can Google users tell the difference?
  3. Case Study: Can a Few Relevant Links Boost a Low Traffic Site?
  4. What frustrates online shoppers in 2020?

2019 5

  1. Main Reasons People Read Online: Convenience, News, Learning and Entertainment
  2. Ads and Interruptions Destroy Content Experience
  3. What is the average user time on Google's search results?
  4. Link Migration Experiment
  5. Emerging Search Quality Signals: Clicks, Attention and Satisfaction

2018 7

  1. Auto-Play Videos = Bad User Experience [Survey]
  2. Link inversion, the least known major ranking factor.
  3. [SEO Test] Tabs and Accordions not OK in Mobile-First
  4. How I recorded user behaviour on my competitor's websites
  5. Does link disavow tool do anything?
  6. How people read online [2018 Survey]
  7. Can quality content rank without links? [SEO Experiment]

2017 5

  1. Here's what users think of AMP results in Google. Nothing, they don't care.
  2. Predictive Analytics With Google's Search Console Data
  3. Calculating CTR Averages Using Google Search Console Data
  4. Same Rank. More Clicks.
  5. Trust Signals on the Web: URL, HTTPS, Ads, Design, Brand, Content

2016 3

  1. Here's how web users decide if online content is trustworthy.
  2. 55% of Australians Have Used Their Phone to Buy Online
  3. Why do we link to other websites?

2015 7

  1. Test Update: Hidden Content
  2. Negative Impact of 301 Redirects
  3. User Behaviour Data as a Ranking Signal
  4. Acid Trip Experiment
  5. Experiment Results: Can Hidden Content Rank Well?
  6. Conversations With Google: Media Index
  7. Testing the influence of URL citations and term proximity on document indexation and ranking

2014 9

  1. Link Juice Hack for PDF Files
  2. Google Reclassifies Certain Types of Thin Content Pages
  3. Link Memory: SEO Experiment Result
  4. Co-Occurrence as a Ranking Signal
  5. Hello, this is an extortion email.
  6. How I made Google index its own search results
  7. Experiment Results: Influence of Anchor Text on Document Title Rewriting
  8. Separating Local and Organic Traffic in Google Webmaster Tools
  9. Google is Aware of Temporary Link Schemes

2013 11

  1. Google in 2023
  2. The Biggest SERP Flux Since Penguin 2.0
  3. Reddit: Google's Semantic Data-Mining Opportunity
  4. Tested: QR and EXIF URL Discovery
  5. The Art of Link Earning
  6. Tested: Google's New Barrier to Entry
  7. Google's Results Change During Weekends and Weekdays
  8. Introducing: HyperPagerank
  9. Anchor Text Proximity Experiment
  10. Guerilla SEO: BitTorrent
  11. Conversations With Google

2012 15

  1. Experiment With Tabbed Content
  2. PageRank Split Experiment
  3. Google Ignores Hidden Content - Including Tabs?
  4. Mind-Blowing Hack for Competitive Link Research
  5. How I Hijacked Rand Fishkin's Blog
  6. Dispelling the Myth of Authorship Impact on CTR
  7. Experimental Methodology & Reporting for SEO
  8. The Random Google
  9. SEO Experiment With Non-Link References
  10. Survey Results: Users Prefer Post-Penguin Google
  11. SEO Experiment: Google Image Search
  12. Link Spam Detection
  13. Search Quality: The Link Graph Theory
  14. Title Tag Replacement
  15. Missing Title Tag Substitute

2011 4

  1. Synonym Anomaly in SERPS
  2. Impact of Rankings on SERP CTR
  3. Domain Hyphenation Test
  4. Obstacles in Experimental Testing and Reverse Engineering of Google Algorithm