Real estate agents manipulating AI.
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google’s AI Overviews who the best real estate agent in a given city is, and the odds are overwhelming that the actual top producer in that market doesn’t come up.
Many real estate agents are trying to crack the code of AEO — Answer Engine Optimization, sometimes called AI Engine Optimization. It’s a companion discipline to traditional SEO, fueled by the rise of AI-driven search.
Jeff Lobb, founder and CEO of SparkTank Media and Coach52, elaborated on this trend in detail at Inman Connect San Diego in July. “When people ask me where they should spend their time or money, I ask them: Where’s your customer? Are they on social?” Lobb said in San Diego. “Because right now, they’re shifting to AI significantly, the same way we saw the shift from the Yellow Pages to Google.”
New research from Local Falcon, a platform that tracks and improves brand visibility across generative AI answer engines, puts some hard numbers behind the AEO trend in the residential real estate industry.
Local Falcon found that 91.5 percent of established, website-publishing agents were never named once across 37,500 AI searches run in the 100 largest U.S. cities.
The company cross-referenced every agent or team named by five AI platforms — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Grok — against RealTrends Verified’s 2026 production rankings.
Local Falcon ran three search phrases (“best realtor near me,” “best real estate agent near me,” “top rated real estate agent near me”) across 25 grid points per city, for 37,500 total queries. They counted an agent as “named” only when a platform linked to that agent’s own site or a page carrying their name.
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/real-estate-agents-manipulating-ai/
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FBI takes Swalwell devices and hits his home over assault claims
Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell at the San Francisco airport on Saturday and then raided his home in Washington, DC, the next day as part of an ongoing probe connected to sexual assault allegations, sources familiar with the investigation told CNN.
Swalwell and his lawyer did not immediately respond to messages from CNN.
Swalwell resigned from Congress in April after reporting from CNN and the San Francisco Chronicle detailed allegations of sexual misconduct.
https://lite.cnn.com/2026/08/20/politics/eric-swalwell-fbi-raid-sexual-assault-claims-invs
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Scott Bessent: “We’ve got a spike in oil prices today that I don’t really understand”…
“After the deportations that we’ve seen and the closing of the border, we don’t need to produce as many jobs”
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/scott-bessent-weve-got-a-spike-in-oil-prices-today-that-i-dont-really-understand/
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New Trial Hearing Bombshell: Karmelo Anthony’s Ex Reported Him for Stalking an Hour Before He Stabbed Austin Metcalf to Death, Texts Show Him Fantasizing About Stabbing Someone and Licking the Blood
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/new-trial-hearing-bombshell-karmelo-anthonys-ex-reported/
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Alina Habba Breaks Silence Regarding Reports that She’s a Frontrunner to Replace Karoline Leavitt as White House Press Secretary
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/alina-habba-breaks-silence-regarding-reports-that-shes/
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Walmart Crashes Most Since 2022 After Huge Comp Store Sales Miss
Walmart is tumbling after posting disappointing guidance while quarterly sales fell short of expectations, a rare miss for the world's largest bricks and mortar retailer, that is stoking concerns about the leading big-box retailer decelerating alongside a slow-growing US economy...
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/walmart-crashes-most-2022-after-huge-comp-store-sales-miss
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How Can This Be Real?
UK Home Office issues migrants 'how not to RAPE or be a PEDO' guide...
The Home Office in the United Kingdom is now handing asylum seekers a nine-page booklet and posters spelling out that rape is illegal, sex with children is a crime, women are equal to men, and you cannot mutilate girls' genitals.
Officials openly acknowledge that "laws and customs here may be different from your home country." The document, published this week, is the clearest admission yet that large numbers of those arriving do not share the fundamental values that keep women and children safe.
If you have to publish these and send them out to ‘Asylum seekers’ perhaps they shouldn’t even be considered for asylum.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/how-can-be-real
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'Violence, dispossession, and destruction': Israeli forces and settlers launch 467 West Bank attacks in one week
Israeli forces and settlers launched at least 467 attacks on Palestinian communities across the occupied West Bank over the past week, the Palestinian prime minister’s office said.
In a post on X, the office said the violence damaged 75 Palestinian homes and other structures.
It described the attacks as part of a “relentless escalation of violence, dispossession, and destruction”.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/violence-dispossession-and-destruction-israeli-forces-and-settlers
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U.S. Soldiers Are Writing Anti-Israel Messages On U.S. Planes!