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Artificial Intelligence Optimisation - BrightonSEO April 2017
- 1. Richard Neill Horie Home SEO & Artificial Intelligence Optimisation Twitter: @NeillHorie Slideshare: http://bit.ly/europeanswallow
- 2. #brightonseo Do you think you are intelligent? Donât worry about being perceived as a narcissist. Do you know the airspeed of an unladen European swallow? SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 3. âUnladen European swallowâs airspeed velocity is eleven metres per second.â Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131292477@N08/25219116374 Alexa can answer; Alexa knows the answer. Alexa is an Artificial Intelligence Assistant. SLIDESHARE VERSION #brightonseo
- 5. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OPTIMISATION At Home, we have changed the way our business works, the way we think around technology, because of AI. We have changed from talking about Search Engine Optimisation to Artificial Intelligence Optimisation. And I think you should too. #brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 7. Source: https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=5m9s But what do I mean when I saw AI? DO I mean Wall-E, or the Terminator, or AI gods powered by Dyson Spheres? Do I mean the highly technical things talked about by other speakers in the AI stream? #brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 8. Source: https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=5m9s To talk about it properly, I first need to talk about intelligence, which I see as the ability to acquire knowledge and skills. To learn things like the airspeed velocity of an unladen European swallow. Based on this, AI is just a robot knowing things. #brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 9. âIn the US, on our mobile app in Android, one in five queries - 20% of our queries - are voice queries and that share is growing.â Sundar Pichai, I/O 2016 Keynote Source: https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=5m9s#brightonseo
- 11. 1 trillion non-mobile searches 1 trillion mobile searches Source: https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=5m9s#brightonseo
- 12. 1 trillion non-mobile searches 500 billion other mobile searches 500 billion Android searches Source: https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore-Reports-January-2016-US-Smartphone-Subscriber-Market-Share#brightonseo
- 13. 1 trillion non-mobile searches 500 billion other mobile searches #brightonseo 400 billion Android text searches 100 billion Android voice searches
- 14. The Amazon Echo was the best selling product on Amazon for 2016. A colleague uses one to read bedtime stories to his children. Another has given one to his elderly parents for Christmas. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131292477@N08/25219116374#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 15. Dozens of devices at CES 2017 came bundled with Alexa. These range from fridges to televisions to phones. The next Motorola and Huawei phones are rumoured to come with Alexa. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131292477@N08/25219116374#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 16. VOICE SEARCH IS AI In terms of knowing things and answering questions, voice search is AI. But when you start to consider it, itâs more than just voice search. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131292477@N08/25219116374#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 17. â[Google] would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. That's obviously artificial intelligence⊠and that is basically what we work on.â Larry Page, October 2000 Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20150323042808/http://achievement.org/autodoc/steps/vis?target=pag0-005#pag0-005#brightonseo
- 18. Google Assistant is the kind of AI theyâve been trying to develop. I could ask it for places to eat and it will show me breakfast places in Brighton. In fact, I donât even need to ask â it will recommend some breakfast cafĂ©s proactively. SLIDESHARE VERSION #brightonseo
- 19. 2017 But thatâs now. Letâs take a step back. #brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 20. 2017 2006 In 2006, Google was answering our needs â itâs just that our needs were expressed as brute keywords. I would have typed âbreakfast cafĂ© in brightonâ to get the result, but I still got it.#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 21. 2017 2006 1996 Further back still, we can see that search was answering questions. Was Ask Jeeves bad at it? Yes, it was less sophisticated, but we also gave it very little to work with.#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 22. 2017 2006 1996 We had scrolling text, no structured data and our cafĂ© probably didnât even have a website. No wonder it struggled. Just because it wasnât great, it doesnât mean it wasnât AI.#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 23. Source: https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=5m9s My colleague was talking to someone at a conference recently, and AI came up. This person said, âYou know, sooner or later, weâll be marketing towards robots, not people.â To someone who has done SEO, itâs obvious that this has long been the case, but outside our bubble, AI is something different and new.#brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 24. We are the gatekeepers of content. From all of our work on SEO, we should know what content our users need, and theyâre trying to find out and what AI should tell them. #brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 25. Donât just rely on keyword research â look at live chat logs, call centre logs, standard question setups customer services deal with, user interviews, etc. #brightonseo KNOW QUESTIONS SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 26. Produce content, but write it to answer the questions being asked, not just vaguely talk about the same topic. Consider the structure of your answer, and look into how content is picked up by featured snippets. SLIDESHARE VERSION #brightonseo KNOW QUESTIONS ANSWER QUESTIONS
- 27. Build Brand Assistants, like Alexa Skills, Actions on Google or Facebook Messenger Bots. Donât just leave it to customer services, or developers, without our input. Make sure whatever you build is better than Jeeves, if not than Google Assistant itself. SLIDESHARE VERSION #brightonseo KNOW QUESTIONS ANSWER QUESTIONS BUILD ASSISTANTS
- 28. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS OUR DOMAIN And throughout all of this, we must remember that AI is not someone elseâs job. Itâs our job. Itâs our domain. We have owned it since Ask Jeeves, we own it now, and we need to act accordingly. #brightonseo SLIDESHARE VERSION
- 30. RECOMMENDED READING Actions on Google https://developers.google.com/actions/ Alexa Skills https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit Facebook Messenger Bots https://messengerplatform.fb.com/ API.AI https://api.ai/ #brightonseo AI Assistant Experiments http://bit.ly/aioexperiments Can Google Tell Us The Truth? http://bit.ly/nonfacts
- 31. REFERENCES http://searchengineland.com/google-now-handles-2-999- trillion-searches-per-year-250247 Google now handles 2 trillion searches per year. https://youtu.be/862r3XS2YB0?t=5m9s Sundar Pichai keynote, over 50% of searches are mobile, and 20% of android mobile are voice. https://www.comscore.com/Insights/Rankings/comScore- Reports-January-2016-US-Smartphone-Subscriber-Market- Share At least 50% of mobile devices in the US are android. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/01/10/amazoncom-incs- best-selling-product-in-2016.aspx Echo was the best selling product on Amazon for 2016. #brightonseo
Editor's Notes
- Hands up in the audience if you think youâre intelligent? Donât be worried about narcissism. Okay, hands up if you know the airspeed of an unladen European swallow?
- <audio should play>. Alexa can answer our question, and Alexa is an Artificial Intelligence Assistant.
- At Home, we have changed from talking about search engine optimisation to artificial intelligence optimisation. We have changed the way we think about technology across our entire business because of what I will discuss in these slides. And we think everyone else in the industry should do the same.
- At Home, we have changed from talking about search engine optimisation to artificial intelligence optimisation. We have changed the way we think about technology across our entire business because of what I will discuss in these slides. And we think everyone else in the industry should do the same.
- So what do I mean when I say AI? Do I meant robots like Wall-E, or the Terminator, or AI Gods powered by Dyson Spheres? First we need to talk about intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to acquire of knowledge and skills. Things like the airspeed velocity of an unlanded european swallow. AI is just a robot knowing things and being able answer questions about them. In terms of answering questions, itâs important to think about voice search.
- So what do I mean when I say AI? Do I meant robots like Wall-E, or the Terminator, or AI Gods powered by Dyson Spheres? First we need to talk about intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to acquire of knowledge and skills. Things like the airspeed velocity of an unlanded european swallow. AI is just a robot knowing things and being able answer questions about them. In terms of answering questions, itâs important to think about voice search.
- So what do I mean when I say AI? Do I meant robots like Wall-E, or the Terminator, or AI Gods powered by Dyson Spheres? First we need to talk about intelligence. Intelligence is the ability to acquire of knowledge and skills. Things like the airspeed velocity of an unlanded european swallow. AI is just a robot knowing things and being able answer questions about them. In terms of answering questions, itâs important to think about voice search.
- This is all based on extrapolation from the US stats, so might not be exact. However, this is just android â so Google Home use isnât countered in that. This also doesnât include things like Allo. Finally, dubious about how they count searches â e.g. reminders.
- The Amazon Echo was the best selling product on Amazon for 2016. Colleague uses one to read bedtime stories to his children. Another has give one to his elderly parents for Christmas and they took straight to it in a way they didnât with tablets or smartphones. Dozens of devices at CES 2017 came bundled with Alexa. These range from fridges to televisions to phones. The next Motorola and Huawei phones are rumoured to come with Alexa.
- The Amazon Echo was the best selling product on Amazon for 2016. Colleague uses one to read bedtime stories to his children. Another has give one to his elderly parents for Christmas and they took straight to it in a way they didnât with tablets or smartphones. Dozens of devices at CES 2017 came bundled with Alexa. These range from fridges to televisions to phones. The next Motorola and Huawei phones are rumoured to come with Alexa.
- In terms of knowing things and answering questions, voice search is AI. But itâs more than just voice search.
- So that takes us to now. Google Assistant is the kind of AI theyâve been trying to develop. I can ask Google for places to eat, and it will show me breakfast places in Brighton. In fact, I donât even need to ask â it will show me it proactively. Itâs using information it knows and providing it to me without me even needing to ask.
- But thatâs 2017, letâs take a step back before now.
- In 2006, in the days before material design and flat logos, Google was answering our needs. Itâs just that our needs were expressed in the form of brute keywords. I would type in âbreakfast places in brightonâ to get the result, but it was still pretty similar.
- If we go back further still, to Ask Jeeves, we can see that right back in 1996, search was about answering questions. Was Ask Jeeves AI? Yes, but it was an AI with great limitations of what it could figure out, and a bunch of webmasters not structuring what they were saying very clearly.
- If we go back further still, to Ask Jeeves, we can see that right back in 1996, search was about answering questions. Was Ask Jeeves AI? Yes, but it was an AI with great limitations of what it could figure out, and a bunch of webmasters not structuring what they were saying very clearly.
- Looking further into the future, Iâll share an anecdote which didnât happen to me, but a colleague of mine. My colleague was at a conference and he was talking about AI to someone, and they said, âYou know, sooner or later weâll be marketing to robots!â Itâs easy for us in this room to forget, but not everyone else realises that this is what SEO has long been â marketing to robots so that they will show it to our users. We take it for granted, but itâs basically the future as far as everyone else is concerned.
- We are the gatekeepers of content. From all our work on SEO, we should know everything our users will ask; all the answers they want; all the content theyâre trying to find.
- Donât just rely on keyword research â look at live chat logs, call logs, standard questions the customer services are used to dealing with, etc.
- Write content, but write it to answer the question, not just respond to it like you might do with mentioning accurate keywords. Write the content in such a way that it will/would be picked up by featured snippets.
- Donât just leave it to customer services or developers, help build the assistants â like Alexa Skills or Actions on Google â so that they are the very least better than Jeeves, but preferably better than the standard Google Assistant itself.
- We have to remember through all of this that AI is not someone else's job. It's our domain, we have owned it since Ask Jeeves and we own it now.