October 2026

Critical PHP Vulnerabilities | AI Software Has Our Clients Covered

At AI Software, Inc., our server firewall was already blocking the known exploit traffic associated with these vulnerabilities. As soon as the official patches were published by the PHP team, our systems automatically applied the updates the same day. As a result, none of the websites we manage were affected by this threat.

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How is AI Changing Search and What Do I Need to Do?

Search is no longer just a list of blue links. AI Overviews appear on a large share of Google results, AI Mode offers conversational exploration, and tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answer questions directly. Users increasingly get what they need without clicking through to a website.

This shift is already measurable. Studies show that when an AI summary is present, traditional organic click-through rates drop substantially—sometimes by roughly half for top-ranking pages. Pew Research found users clicked a traditional result only about 8% of the time when an AI summary appeared, versus 15% when one did not. Many sessions now end on the results page itself.

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Google Business Profile is the Yellow Pages

Before Google, a lot of local business started with a thick yellow book. You looked up a category, scanned the listings, and called whoever stood out. In the Cincinnati market, the prize spot was the back cover. It sat face-up on kitchen counters and office desks, and it was not cheap. From experience selling in that era, the back cover ran about $110,000 a month in a midsize market of roughly two to three million people. That ad is free now. The Yellow Pages today is your Google Business Profile.

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