Who's Going to Dominate Search in the AI Era?
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
31 min
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8 chapters
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How are AI agents reshaping web navigation and search discovery?
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discover products, services, and brands is changing fast. AI assistance, generative answers, agent-led interfaces are quickly replacing traditional search as a starting point for a user's journey. Nearly 60% of US adults visited a page with AI-generated summer within the first month of 2025. That stat signals a massive behavioral shift. If the front door of your business is now an AI interface, how do you compete? How do you stand out? When search becomes more of a conversation. You're listening to the Voice of Search podcast. My name's Tyson, and today I'm excited to be joined by Killian Dunn, founder of Telepathic. Telepathic helps brands build AI native SEO tools that help e-commerce and SaaS brands gain visibility in emerging search platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Today, Killian and I will explore who's going to dominate search in an AI area and how your brand can be one of them. Gillian, welcome to the podcast.
Yeah, thanks for having me. Great to be here.
No, obviously this has been a heavy conversation, not just here on the podcast, but in the industry. So we all know our world in SEO is changing, the way people are engaging with search engines is changing. Maybe to kind of just set the stage for the listeners, like, how are you seeing this evolution and how are you seeing the changes in the space that we compete in?
Yeah, there's so much I think it's like Arguably one of the most rapidly changing industries at the moment. And so kind of everyone is scrambling to keep up and to understand what to do. And it's been chaotic, uh, I think for everyone. At the same time, I think maybe it's helpful for people to zoom out a little bit and think uh instead of kind of zooming in on the details and saying, okay, kind of like how are things different this week from last, and thinking more about where things are going and what's the direction of things and working Under the assumption that this change isn't going to stop. And if anything, it might even accelerate further. The trend broadly is that AI agents are becoming more and more dominant and will be more heavily involved in more of the buying journey.
I think the biggest trend at the moment is that buying journeys are being compressed. This has been happening for a long time. It started off, like let's say, as we kind of move from a sort of a sales ledge. go to market where you have someone pop on a bunch of different calls to kind of go through a buy and purchase and down to the next kind of like product led growth became very popular where where you could actually access a product without talking to a human. And we're seeing that happen more and more that friction is being removed. And that's yeah that's that's taking a big leap forward now with Chat GPT, where so much of that discovery process can happen in various different AI search tools.
And so um the work required to make your choice as to what to buy.
What trends indicate that AI‑driven buying journeys are becoming more compressed?
It could be a software product or e-commerce product or anything. um is being cut down so much. So it's very interesting. Lots is going on.
Yeah, I mean, I I feel like it's i it it is a very exciting time for the industry. Obviously, you have a lot of, you know, in some cases, more fear, panic of the changes. But I feel like that change is something that like at least was one of the attractions to SEO or search for myself, where it's like You want to have that evolving landscape and that added complexity of change.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How are AI agents reshaping web navigation and search discovery?
0:00–3:19
2
What trends indicate that AI‑driven buying journeys are becoming more compressed?
3:19–7:07
3
Why do traditional SEO fundamentals like indexation and crawlability still matter for AI search?
7:07–11:40
4
How should brands prioritize high‑quality product descriptions for AI‑native search platforms?
11:40–15:33
5
What metrics will replace classic SERP KPIs in emerging AI search engines?
15:33–19:10
6
Will smaller brands gain a temporary advantage in AI search, and how can they capitalize on it?
19:10–23:11
7
How might relevance and authority signals swing back and forth as AI search matures?
23:11–27:27
8
What new career opportunities are emerging for SEOs in the AI‑first search landscape?
27:27–31:15