About this tag
The ai search tag on WindowsForum covers the evolving landscape of search powered by artificial intelligence, including generative and answer engine optimization for platforms like ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and Perplexity. Discussions span SEO strategies for 2026, Google Images redesign with AI generation, and licensing deals between Microsoft and publishers to ensure trusted AI answers. Topics also include practical issues such as Copilot Search inaccuracies, scanning scanned PDFs and image text, and frameworks like InnovAit's Query Fan-Out for brand visibility. The tag reflects a shift from traditional ranked pages to AI-generated answers, with emphasis on content licensing, accuracy, and enterprise implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 users.
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    SEO in 2026: Improve Google, Bing and ChatGPT Search Visibility

    SEO—search engine optimization—is the work of making a website easier for search engines and people to find, understand, and use. This 2026 guide covers SEO for any public website, including business sites, online stores, publishers, and local service companies. Its goal is unpaid visibility in...
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    Google Images Redesign Adds Desktop Feed; AI Image Generation Enters Search

    Google has marked 25 years of Google Images with a redesigned desktop homepage and a plan to add AI image generation to Search. Per a July 14 post from Brad Kellett, Google’s senior engineering director for Search, the changes will roll out in stages over the coming weeks. The headline feature...
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    InnovAit AI Query Fan-Out Framework Targets ChatGPT, Copilot Visibility

    InnovAit AI launched its Query Fan-Out Framework from Coral Springs, United States, on July 11, 2026, presenting it as a structured methodology for mapping multi-turn conversational queries and strengthening brand visibility across major AI search engines including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity...
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    Copilot Search Used Royal Dutch Shell as Current Name in 8 July 2026 Answer

    Copilot Search used the former company name in a present-tense answer, but the current name is Shell plc. That is the exact reader answer. According to the screenshot account published by RoyalDutchShellPlc.com, a Bing Copilot Search query on 8 July 2026 for “royal dutch Shell plc website”...
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    Answer Engine Optimization: Coozmoo’s GEO AEO Bet on Visibility in AI Answers

    Coozmoo Digital Solutions announced on July 3, 2026, from Houston, that it has launched Answer Engine Optimization and Generative Engine Optimization services meant to help brands appear inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and AI-generated search answers. The...
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    Microsoft Copilot Licensing Deal With Nine: Trusted AI Answers in Australia

    Microsoft and Nine Entertainment announced on July 3, 2026, an Australian content-licensing agreement that lets Microsoft Copilot reference Nine journalism, including material beyond paywalled previews, in AI-generated search answers while showing snippets, summaries, headlines, attribution, and...
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    Nine and Microsoft Copilot Deal: Licensed Journalism for Trusted AI Search in Australia

    Nine Entertainment Co and Microsoft announced on July 3, 2026, in Australia, a content agreement allowing Microsoft Copilot to reference Nine masthead journalism, including text beyond paywalled previews, so AI search answers can show snippets, headlines, summaries, attribution, and links to...
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    Copilot Chat Gains Search Inside Scanned PDFs and Image Text (July 2026)

    Microsoft updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 559613 on June 30, 2026, confirming that Copilot Chat is in development to better match search results from scanned PDFs and text inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, with general availability planned for July 2026. The feature...
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    ChatGPT Leads U.S. AI Use as Search Changes Forever, Threatening Publishers

    Pew Research Center’s June 17, 2026 survey of 5,119 U.S. adults found that ChatGPT is the most-used AI chatbot in the United States, with 44 percent of adults saying they use it, ahead of Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, Grok, Claude, and Character.ai. The more important finding is not...
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    Top AI Research Platforms 2026: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and the New Evidence Layers

    The NubiaPage ranking published for 2026 names ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, NotebookLM, You.com, Quantilope, Hebbia, Visualping, and Brandwatch as the world’s ten best AI research platforms, spanning frontier chat systems, AI search, document notebooks, market research, finance...
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    VIA Nederland Search Taskforce: GEO, AI Agents, and the End of Click Value

    VIA Nederland published its Search Taskforce findings on 24 June 2026 in Amsterdam, arguing that AI-generated answers, automated ad systems, agentic assistants, and new measurement models are structurally changing search marketing. The trade body’s point is not that search is dying. It is that...
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    Schema Markup Order for AEO: Does Deployment Sequencing Speed AI Answers?

    AI Search Engineers said on June 26, 2026, that its analysis of nine professional-service client engagements and more than 50 AI visibility audits found that schema markup deployment order can affect how quickly businesses appear in AI-generated search answers. The claim lands in a market that...
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    Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): How AI Search Changes Visibility for Windows B2B Firms

    AI Search Engineers said on June 24, 2026, that professional services firms delaying Answer Engine Optimization are falling behind early adopters whose entity signals, citations, and topical authority have been accumulating across AI search systems for months. The claim is promotional, but the...
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    AI Search Visibility: Why AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) Matters Now for Pros

    AI Search Engineers, an agency marketing itself as the only AEO Verified firm in the United States, said on June 24, 2026 that professional service firms are running out of time to gain early authority in AI-generated search answers. Its warning is less a neutral market study than a sales...
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    Copilot vs Outlook Search: Where AI Helps—and Fails With Tasks

    In a practical Outlook test published by Cambridge Network, a trainer used Copilot to find emails, calendar items, recent contacts, and tasks in Microsoft 365, finding that Copilot often beat standard Outlook search but failed badly around To Do and automation. The experiment is small, personal...
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    Getty Signs OpenAI Display Deal to Bring Licensed Images Into ChatGPT

    Getty Images announced on June 21, 2026, in New York that it has signed a multi-year display partnership with OpenAI to bring Getty’s licensed visual libraries into ChatGPT’s search and discovery experiences, with the companies positioning the deal as a trust play for AI search. The announcement...
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    AI Answer Engines in 2026: How Brands Can Vanish and Win via Machine-Readable Evidence

    Generative AI answer engines in 2026 are changing brand discovery by filtering companies through cached indexes, retrieval systems, citation heuristics, and model-generated summaries, meaning a business that ranks well in Google can still vanish when users ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, or...
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    Adobe Brand Visibility Turns AI Search Into Enterprise Optimization and Governance

    Adobe announced Adobe Brand Visibility on June 17, 2026, positioning the new enterprise marketing product as a way for businesses to measure and improve how their brands appear across AI tools such as ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity AI. The product folds Semrush’s AI...
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    ChatGPT vs Google AI Search War (2026): Habit vs Gateway, Citations vs Clicks

    As of May 2026, ChatGPT led standalone AI chatbot traffic with 79.05 percent global share, while Google still controlled 90.39 percent of the global search-engine market, making the AI search war a split contest rather than a clean handoff from one winner to another. The scoreboard says OpenAI...
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    AI Answer Visibility vs SEO: AEO, Entity Optimization, and the New Search Visibility Fight

    AI Search Engineers said in a June 2026 press release that businesses asking whether AI can perform SEO are focusing on the wrong problem, arguing instead that traditional search optimization does not reliably make companies visible in ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, or Grok answers. The...
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