{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The GEO Show","title":"Connected Gmail and Photos Can Now Shape Ads in AI Mode","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":658,"description":"For users who connect Gmail or Google Photos to Search, Google can now use that context to personalize ads, including in AI Mode. Paris Childress covers this and five more stories in today's GEO briefing, including OpenAI data showing about 1 in 5 ChatGPT messages now seeks information.\nIn this episode:\nGmail and Photos can shape ads in AI Mode. Google changed its privacy policy so that, for users who connect Gmail or Google Photos to Search, the summaries and inferences it draws can personalize ads, including in AI Mode. Advertisers get no controls or reporting yet, so break out AI Mode performance wherever Google allows.\n1 in 5 ChatGPT messages is a search. OpenAI's data shows 20.2% of sampled consumer ChatGPT messages in September were information seeking, up from 16.7% in July 2024, while writing fell from 34% to 21%. The shift is gradual, but at about 1.2 billion weekly active users, ChatGPT is a massive new search engine.\nShopify's knowledge base is the new product feed. Shopify moved the agentic knowledge base that AI shopping agents use into the merchant admin. It drafts FAQs from the storefront, holds up to 1,000 FAQs, and agents only see them once published. The old app shuts down on January 15, 2027. Check the auto-drafted FAQs before you publish.\nVisa: trust is the bottleneck. Visa says nearly 50 AI agent partners are live in production and expects that to double. Early use cases are B2B, such as bill payments and invoice settlement. Watch which AI assistants connect to payment networks' agent programs.\nSemrush confirms poisoned Google results. Google is serving some deliberately wrong results to data collection tools. Earlier vendor estimates put it at 8% to 11% of results, which Paris calls noise rather than collapse. Check any ranking or AI Overview drop against Search Console before you report it.\nCorrection and lightning round. Google says the disabled Discover source taps were a bug in an experiment. Plus another ranking volatility spike, iOS...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7cDHOTKwTPJbamMzkSU5XMeYqbfRSPk5nMQ6zhbTeaI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kY2Ri/MGIyZjViNzJiODc5/ZGM5MmJhYmE4NmYx/MTVhYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}