Google’s Liz Reid on How to Improve Your Search Results
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Google tying Gemini directly into search isn’t UX polish — it’s a rewrite of how discovery, attribution, and SEO work as user behavior shifts to conversational queries. If your acquisition model still assumes ten blue links, you’re late; re-run your funnel assumptions on AI-infused SERPs and plan for more zero-click answers.
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