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Dan Taylor shared thisAirbnb’s AI search isn’t late — it’s a warning to chatbot OTAs. Natural-language search, predictive filters, AI listing blurbs, and side-by-side comparisons landed inside the default booking path — not a separate chat demo. Rivals shipped similar tools years ago. The commercial point is where the AI sits: keep the shop, make the filters smarter. If you work in travel marketing, that should reshape how you talk about “AI search” vs another conversational booking widget. https://lnkd.in/eSCjqvJY
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Dan Taylor shared thisMost travellers do not want another chat window. They want better search.Most travellers do not want another chat window. They want better search.
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Dan Taylor shared thisCốc Cốc rarely trends on English SEO Twitter — which is exactly why it belongs in an international crawl matrix. Vietnam’s browser/search player still runs a real (if national) web index. If you treat “international SEO” as Google locales only, you are blind to a surface Vietnamese users actually use. https://lnkd.in/eNTGr4up
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Dan Taylor shared thisWhile Brussels debates DMA data sharing and Ecosia builds Staan, Czech Seznam quietly keeps one of the few EU-scale own indexes that still matters for real traffic. Own-index ≠ niche hobby. If your European crawl matrix only lists Google and Bing, you are missing a national engine that still writes its own ranking. https://lnkd.in/etm33-HC
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Dan Taylor shared thisAlibaba put Qwen 4 on the Apsara keynote slide — and carefully did not ship it. Official line: currently in training; Qwen 4.5/5 aimed at 5–10T params. Until endpoints land, Qwen3.8-Max + Model Studio web search are what can change how your pages get summarised. Watch Taobao/Amap/OEM embedding more than the roadmap poster. https://lnkd.in/en5dUUQX
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Dan Taylor shared thisSeven years ago today I launched Russian Search News — closely followed by Chinese Search News. In 2022 I merged them into International Search News. ISN saw more than 50 search and AI experts contribute to more than 1,000 articles. But we outgrew “news.” We were delivering knowledge and depth — more than coverage. So we needed to evolve. Seven years on, we’re evolving once more. International Search News is now International Search Insights — ReadIsi.com. ISI covers everything international around Search and AI. We’re ramping up to be even more thorough: more news, more insight across the global search and AI scene — basically every search engine and AI-in-search product that isn’t Google or Bing. If you work with global brands, ISI is for you. https://lnkd.in/ejsskS5y #InternationalSearchInsights #Search #AI #SEO
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Dan Taylor shared thisThis was good fun to record!Dan Taylor shared thisAnother awesome weekly digital marketing news episode out now! 📰 This time round I was joined by Dan Taylor, Stanislav Farkas, David Carrasco Pamies and Steve O. (Link below - also on Spotify - search: Weekly Digital Marketing News) Key Topics Covered: 🔴 Google calling its EU results its "worst ever" after the DMA redesign 🔴 How AI might pay publishers — Cloudflare, Google and Microsoft's rival models 🔴 What actually counts as "content" worth paying for 🔴 Cheaper AI models: OpenAI's GPT-6 (Sol & Luna) and Claude Opus 5.5 🔴 Why OpenAI keeps cutting prices and chasing volume over profit 🔴 Multimodal reporting arriving in Search Console (still no AI Mode data) 🔴 Why Google keeps "half-baking" Search Console tools 🔴 Microsoft AI's "silicon species" warning and AI agents seeking work 🔴 OpenAI and the Australian Medicare incident — the first government "hack"? 🔴 Who's accountable when an AI agent goes rogue (Jensen Huang's view) 🔴 Tilly Norwood, AI actors, the Coca-Cola AI advert and AI-disclosure rules 🔴 NYT v OpenAI: "users won't click" and AI as a search "substitute" 🔴 Another Google spam update — why so frequent? 🔴 AI making phishing and spam far harder to spot 🔴 Invented keywords and fake "ranking hacks" 🔴 Cyrus Shepard's AI-citation factors: accessibility, search rank and fan-out rank + Much More!
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Dan Taylor shared thisHappy Lincolnshire Day. 🚩 1 October marks the anniversary of the 1536 Lincolnshire Rising — and a good excuse for Yellowbellies (and honorary ones) to fly the flag. Five facts about Lincolnshire 1. It’s one of England’s largest counties by area — big skies, long coastline, and some of the UK’s richest farmland. 2. Lincoln Cathedral’s medieval spire once made it the tallest building in the world. 3. Lincoln Castle holds one of the four surviving original 1215 Magna Carta copies. 4. In WWII it earned the nickname “Bomber County” for the density of RAF bomber stations across the county. 5. The Lincolnshire flag is only 20 years old (unveiled 1 Oct 2005): blue for skies and coast, green for farmland, red St George’s cross, gold fleur-de-lis for Lincoln, and a yellow band nodding to Yellowbellies. Five companies out of Lincolnshire 1. Siemens Energy — industrial gas turbines designed and built in Lincoln for a global market. 2. Dynex Semiconductor — power semiconductors headquartered in Lincoln. 3. Stokes Coffee — roasting in Lincoln since 1902. 4. Young’s Seafood — UK seafood brand led from Grimsby, one of Europe’s great fishing ports. 5. Butlin’s — the first holiday camp opened in Skegness in 1936 and helped invent the British seaside holiday as we know it. Three ways Lincolnshire shaped the UK 1. The 1536 Lincolnshire Rising was an early flashpoint in the resistance to Henry VIII’s religious reforms. 2. Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor — Lincolnshire countryside that helped shape the science that still underpins how the modern world works. 3. From Bomber Command airfields to feeding the nation through agriculture and food production, the county has repeatedly punched above its weight in national moments. Why we’re called Yeller Bellies Nobody agrees on one tidy origin — and that is half the fun. The most often-told story is the old Lincolnshire Regiment’s yellow facings and waistcoats. Others point to fenland newts with yellow undersides, farmworkers with pale bellies and sunburnt backs, or market traders with a pocket full of gold sovereigns after a good day. Folklore more than fact… but Yellowbelly remains a badge of pride. Happy Lincolnshire Day to everyone flying the blue, green, red and gold. #LincolnshireDay #Yellowbelly #Lincolnshire
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Dan Taylor posted thisKagi’s “independence” lives more at the ranking layer than full crawl parity — Kagibot feeds Teclis/TinyGem while results still lean on third-party indexes. For SEOs: obsess less over crawl, more over boost/block reputation. https://lnkd.in/e7xccQe6
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Pete Dainty I feel this is the pain point Amazon are having with Rufus right now. Rufus has told me so many times it can't find a certain brand, when I'm looking at that brand on the product grid...
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Dan Taylor liked thisAirbnb’s AI search isn’t late — it’s a warning to chatbot OTAs. Natural-language search, predictive filters, AI listing blurbs, and side-by-side comparisons landed inside the default booking path — not a separate chat demo. Rivals shipped similar tools years ago. The commercial point is where the AI sits: keep the shop, make the filters smarter. If you work in travel marketing, that should reshape how you talk about “AI search” vs another conversational booking widget. https://lnkd.in/eSCjqvJY
Experience & Education
Publications
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AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector
See publicationAI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector is designed to help travel marketers and business leaders understand how AI is changing the way people discover, research, and choose travel brands and experiences.
It explains the new AI search paradigms shaping visibility and decision-making, and provides practical guidance on how to adapt your strategy to stay competitive, grow your brand, and drive demand across the full customer journey.
Courses
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Introduction to Generative AI
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Prince2 Project Management
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Projects
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Dust, Crown, and Bone
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History chooses your life, you try to live it.
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International Search News
RussianSearchNews.com is the leading Western resource on Yandex related SEO, news, and insights.
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HreflangChecker.com
See projectHreflangchecker.com is one of the most modern, intuitive, and advanced Hreflang checking tools available on the internet. Available as a desktop application, and soon Chrome Extension (coming 2019).
Honors & Awards
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TechSEO Boost Research Prize
Catalyst Digital / Moz
The inaugural TechSEO Boost research contest, peer reivewed & awarded by Moz.
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National Silver Scoot Headline Award
Scoot
Winner of the 2015 National Silver Scoot Headline Award, presented at the London Transport Museum 20 April 2015.
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Russian
Limited working proficiency
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Bokmål, Norwegian
Elementary proficiency
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