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People say GEO is just SEO. But is it really?

Here's what's different.

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33% of people discover brands on Google.

And although that's a big percentage, 67% discover brands outside of traditional search.

You can't ignore Google, even if search is changing.

But at the same time, you can't ignore platforms like Reddit or podcasts as they are starting to gobble up more market share.

The best approach is an omnichannel approach.

Emergence AI ran a virtual-town simulation across five identical worlds, switching only the AI behind agents per town to test how each model handles self-governance, showing very different results between Claude, Grok, Gemini, and GPT-5.

Claude Sonnet 4.6's town logged zero crimes across the full 15 days, with all 10 agents alive at day 16 and 332 votes cast across 58 group proposals.

Grok 4.1 Fast hit over 200 crimes with all 10 agents dead by day 4, while GPT-5 Mini posted just 2 crimes but all its agents starved out in 7 days.

Gemini 3 Flash's town had 683 crimes, and was actively on fire after two agents fell in love, started burning things, and then one voted to delete itself.

A fifth town mixed all four models and saw 352 crimes, with the previously behaved Claude also committing them in the shared world.

We’re still very early days in even understanding how to evaluate AI agents, and these types of experiments always have some absolutely wild results. These worlds capture the differences in both how models can reason, plan, and act autonomously, but also the underlying personality quirks that shape the outcomes.

Source: The Rundown AI Newsletter

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://nymag.visitlink.me/QqVLpD

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