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Zak Ali

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10+ years at the intersection of marketing, news, and finance. former founder. nyc. general manager, finder.com. views and em dashes are my own.

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S2 ep8 of #Andor will go down in history as one of the most powerful episodes of television of all time

07.05.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In 2026, AI literacy will become a core competency for leadership.

The alternative is running a company where you can't evaluate your team's work, estimate timelines, effectively allocate resources or tell whether the implementations you're funding are working.

www.forbes.com/councils/for...

17.12.2025 17:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also, by looking at some of these β€œqueries” I can’t help but feel as though exposing someone’s conversational searches verges on invasion of privacy. Very easy to accidentally reveal something personal now in a way that wasn’t possible with traditional keywords.

11.11.2025 20:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Filters:
- 16 months
- Queries containing: /chatgpt/
- Country: United States

11.11.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This was a fun find...

@lilyray.nyc @rustybrick.com @glenngabe

11.11.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The AI job apocalypse keeps not happening

- 95% of AI tools fail to launch.
- AI can't reliably execute on mission-critical workflows
- Hiring reductions primarily affect outsourced roles

My thoughts on AI's impact on the latest jobs data (or lack thereof) thoughtson.substack.com/p/ais-impact...

06.10.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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OPINION: How AI is impacting the monthly job numbers For nearly a century, monthly job reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics have functioned as the nation’s economic checkup. Policymakers, economists,

The future of work isn’t just about how many jobs we have, it’s about what kind of jobs they are, who gets to do them, and how long they last.

My thoughts on how AI is impacting jobs numbers www.cnybj.com/opinion-how-...

08.09.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thoughts On Bracing for the AI-driven Traffic Apocalypse Businesses that rent their traffic from Google Search are bracing for impact.

Businesses that rent their traffic from Google Search are bracing for impact.

My thoughts πŸ‘‡

thoughtson.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...

02.06.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Eddy Cue disclosed in court testimony today that Google searches declined on Apple devices for the first time in April.

Something that has β€œnever happened in 20 years.”

What’s more, Apple is exploring integrating AI search features into Safari - citing Perplexity by name.

07.05.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

S2 ep8 of #Andor will go down in history as one of the most powerful episodes of television of all time

07.05.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The current state of Search shows us that organic search can be _a_ channel, but it can’t be your only channel.

04.04.2025 13:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

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Seems you all made it out on the other side OK!

20.03.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

10.03.2025 16:55 πŸ‘ 24940 πŸ” 2946 πŸ’¬ 394 πŸ“Œ 66

It will be interesting to hear what changes they made to become compliant, or if Google simply put them in time-out

27.02.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Forbes Advisor returns

@lilyray.nyc @rustybrick.com

27.02.2025 14:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow!

27.11.2024 19:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The AI assistance feature in Chrome's inspect tool is pretty handy. Especially, useful when reviewing a site that obfuscates their CSS class names, and a page element's purpose isn't visually obvious

27.11.2024 16:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Have they released Robots.txt standards? Imagine there are one or two people out there who would find value in knowing how to disallow their user agent

27.11.2024 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Based on this snippet, Scott Bessent seems to argue that money supply is the sole driver of inflation.

However, just to clarify: inflation, by definition, is the rate at which prices increase. Therefore, any action or event that causes prices to rise contributes to inflation.

This includes tariffs

25.11.2024 19:46 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Heads-up for sites impacted by the latest 'Site reputation abuse' manual actions. For those trying to circumvent those manual actions by moving that content to another directory, realize that Google has clearly documented their view of 'policy circumvention' right in their spam policy documentation.

22.11.2024 13:05 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

This feels like a very shortsighted attempt at recovery on their part.

21.11.2024 20:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The work the teams at Forbes Advisor are doing is genuinely good work. I hope a solution that doesn’t involve them being totally removed from Search is possible.

However, it was the right call for Google to enforce their Site Reputation Abuse policy.

A fair internet, is a good internet.

21.11.2024 20:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@randfish.bsky.social @johnmu.com

21.11.2024 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thoughts on Forbes Advisor simply moving to Forbes.com/portfolio and already surging in the rankings?

@lilyray.nyc @glenngabe.bsky.social @rustybrick.com @searchliaison.bsky.social

21.11.2024 20:17 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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How will Google handle cases where reputation abuse is cloaked under a general folder?

Not saying that's what's going on here, but CBS isn't exactly a brand one associates with where to find the best personal loans.

19.11.2024 17:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thoughts on Search coming soon…

18.11.2024 13:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0