GoKawiilOpinion: Marketers overhaul strategy around still-evolving AI search tools
An industry commentary argues that marketers are restructuring entire channel strategies to chase how AI assistants browse and surface content, even though these tools' crawling and ranking behavior remains unsettled and inconsistent. The piece uses an analogy to Christopher Nolan's Odyssey to describe marketers being led unpredictably by shifting AI rules.
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If AI search behavior keeps changing, strategies built around today's patterns could quickly become obsolete, wasting marketing budgets and effort. The commentary suggests marketers may be overreacting to immature technology rather than waiting for more stable signals about how AI assistants actually retrieve and present information.
- AI assistants' web-browsing and ranking behavior is still inconsistent and evolving.
- Marketers are reportedly reshaping entire channel strategies around this unstable behavior.
- The commentary warns this reactive approach could hurt marketing outcomes rather than help them.
Source: fastcompany.com, 2026-09-29
Published there as: “Marketers are getting AI search all wrong—and it’s hurting their bottom line”
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