AI Search Is Eating Itself & The SEO Industry Is The Source

April 23, 2026

AI Search Is Eating Itself & The SEO Industry Is The Source

Last September, Lily Ray asked Perplexity for the latest news on SEO and AI search. It told her, confidently, about the “September 2025 ‘Perspective’ Core Algorithm Update”; a Google update that, as she then wrote at length in “The AI Slop Loop,” didn’t exist. Google hasn’t named core updates in years. “Perspectives” was already a

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