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When a tiny spaceship flies through his window and lands on his science project, Rod and his cousin Elspeth meet a group of friendly aliens, the extraterrestrial lawmen known as the Galactic... Read all When a tiny spaceship flies through his window and lands on his science project, Rod and his cousin Elspeth meet a group of friendly aliens, the extraterrestrial lawmen known as the Galactic Patrol. When a tiny spaceship flies through his window and lands on his science project, Rod and his cousin Elspeth meet a group of friendly aliens, the extraterrestrial lawmen known as the Galactic Patrol.

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• Nov 3, 2018
• March 6, 2018 (United States)
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Aliens ate my homework, common sense media reviewers.

Cartoonish violence in live-action book-based alien tale.

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May spark interest in science. Reference to and br

Values promoted: healthy and respectful disagreeme

Young hero, the victim of a bully, gains self-conf

Mild action and suspense. Aliens, with one excepti

Rude humor: "boogers," "fart." Massive stomach gur

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Parents need to know that Aliens Ate My Homework is a live-action adaptation of the first book in Bruce Coville's successful series, Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol . In this origin story, Rod Allbright (Jayden Greig), a 12-year-old boy, is visited by aliens who are out to save Earth. The…

Educational Value

May spark interest in science. Reference to and brief explanation of the Drake Equation, which is used to estimate likelihood of finding life in the galaxy.

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Values promoted: healthy and respectful disagreement and teamwork -- each individual has a part to play in a successful task. It's important to overlook our differences and find ways to connect.

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Young hero, the victim of a bully, gains self-confidence, courage, and pride in his own abilities. His cousin and partner, a know-it-all girl, learns to be less judgmental and rigid. Adults are responsible, caring. Some ethnic diversity.

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Mild action and suspense. Aliens, with one exception, are more humorous than scary. The one exception: A boy transforms into an alien villain with hideous teeth and threatening demeanor. Ray-gun fire, lightning storm. Characters are shaken, threatened, momentarily frozen, held captive, and chased. A bully smooshes a large bug onto his victim's head and face. Visuals of creepy crawlies: a tarantula, a scorpion.

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Parents need to know that Aliens Ate My Homework is a live-action adaptation of the first book in Bruce Coville 's successful series, Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol . In this origin story, Rod Allbright (Jayden Greig), a 12-year-old boy, is visited by aliens who are out to save Earth. The miniature beings, more humorous than scary, crash-land in a miniature spaceship in Rod's bedroom. Expect frequent mild action: ray guns, lightning, characters (including small children) frozen in place as hostages and held captive. ( Spoiler alert : The villain is vanquished when he's pelted with muck.) Another sixth-grader bullies the hero and his friend, mashing a large bug into his victim's hair and face. Words like "booger" and "fart" are used to get laughs. Some sad moments relate to Rod's father disappearing three years earlier in a turbulent storm. But overall it should be OK for kids who are comfortable with real vs. pretend violence. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the story.

Rod Allbright's dad, dedicated to making science fun for his family, disappears when a strange storm carries him away in ALIENS ATE MY HOMEWORK. But before he is whooshed away, he promises Rod that he'll return. Three years later, Rod (Jayden Greig), now a sixth-grader, still misses his dad terribly but never stops believing that he'll come back. Bullied at school by the ruthless Billy (Ty Consiglio), Rod and his best friend, Mickey (Sean Quan), are simply outmatched. But things are going to change for Rod Allbright. To his utter amazement, a miniature spaceship crash-lands in his bedroom. Four very small (action figure-sized) alien members of "The Galactic Patrol" -- three creatures and a talking plant (voiced by William Shatner ) -- are in desperate need of his help. Their mission is to find B'kr, a ferocious villain guilty of the galaxy's greatest crime: cruelty. Certain B'kr is masquerading as a human, they must stop him before he can execute his plan to destroy the earth. It's all overwhelming at first. Not only does he have to keep the Galaxy Patrol's arrival secret and help them repair their damaged spacecraft, but his annoying cousin Elspeth (Lauren McNamara) has also arrived to stay with his family. And, most bizarre of all, the evil B'kr may be posing as someone Rod knows!

Is It Any Good?

Kids will find some laughs and some characters to like here, but the primitive special effects and general amateurish production make this movie hard to recommend. What's good about the film -- an inventive premise and the emphasis on science -- came from the book. It's clear that having William Shatner on board was a casting coup for the filmmakers, but his performance is more annoying than engaging. A crucial plot element, the disappearance of Rod Allbright's dad, isn't resolved, and the movie's ending indicates that there will be further adventures. On a positive note, Aliens Ate My Homework may inspire some kids to read the popular Coville book series, and that's always a good thing.

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Families can talk about the violence in Aliens Ate My Homework. Even though it's a live-action movie, the action is more cartoon-like than real. What is the impact of violence on kids? Does cartoon violence lessen that impact? Why or why not?

How did the arrival of the Galactic Patrol help Rod work out his own issues? With Billy? With Elspeth? In what ways did Rod change over the course of his adventure?

The Drake Equation -- estimating the possibility of other lifeforms in the cosmos -- really exists. Have you ever thought about that possibility? Create your own ideal planet or star. What would the civilization and its inhabitants look like? What kind of world would it be?

Movie Details

• On DVD or streaming : March 6, 2018
• Cast : Jayden Greig , Lauren McNamara , William Shatner
• Director : Sean McNamara
• Studio : Universal 1440 Entertainment
• Genre : Family and Kids
• Topics : Adventures , Brothers and Sisters , Space and Aliens
• Run time : 89 minutes
• MPAA rating : PG
• MPAA explanation : rude humor, mild action, and thematic elements
• Last updated : April 18, 2024

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Aliens Ate My Homework is a 2018 American family comedy\adventure film directed by Sean McNamara.

The film was released on March 6, 2018 on Netflix. It is based on Bruce Coville's 1993 novel of the same name.

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The film follows cousins Rod and Elspeth (Jayden Grieg and Lauren McNamara) who meet a group of friendly aliens known as the Galactic Patrol.

• Jayden Grieg as Rod
• Lauren McNamara as Elspeth
• Kirsten Robek as Gwen
• Ty Consiglio as Billy
• Sean Quan as Mickey
• London Cardinal as Young Eric
• Alexia Stroup as Young Linda
• William Shatner as Phil the Plant (voice)
• Dan Payne as Grakker (voice)
• Tristan Risk as Madame Pong (voice)
• Alex Zahara as Tar Gibbons (voice)

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Renee Longstreet from Common Sense Media gave the film a two-star rating, stating: "Kids will find some laughs and some characters to like here, but the primitive special effects and general amateurish production make this movie hard to recommend."

Brendan Campbell from Inside Impulse wrote: "Aliens At My Homework is a fairly fast-moving movie at 90-minutes, and fans who read the book will likely be happy to see the characters they’ve read about come to life."

Video Librarian gave it three stars, saying: "Unapologetically cheesy as effects-heavy sci-fi films go, Aliens Ate My Homework makes up for a lot of hokey ray-guns, miniature spaceships, and a talking shrub (or something) with clever, ironic humor that appeals to the middle-schooler in us all."

The Joey Awards, Vancouver (2018)

• Best Ensemble in MOW or Video Feature: Jayden Greig, Lauren McNamara , Ty Consiglio, Sean Quan, Christian Convery and Carmela Nossa Guizzo [ Winner ]
• Best Leading Actress in a MOW/Video Feature: Lauren McNamara [ Winner ]
• Best Actress in a Principal or Supporting Role in a MOW/Video Feature 5-8 Years: Carmela Nossa Guizzo [ Winner ]

Daytime Emmy Awards (2019)

• Outstanding Makeup [ Nominated ]

Leo Awards (2019)

• Best Performance in a Youth or Children's Program or Series: Dan Payne [ Winner ]

Young Artist Awards (2019)

• Best Ensemble Performance in a Streaming Series or Film: Jayden Greig, Lauren McNamara, Sean Quan, Ty Consiglio, Christian Convery, Carmela Nossa Guizzo [ Winner ]
• Best Performance in a Streaming Series or Film (Young Actor): Christian Convery [ Winner ]
• Best Performance in a Streaming Series or Film (Young Actress): Lauren McNamara and Carmela Nossa Guizzo [ Nominated ]

Young Entertainer Awards (2019)

• Best Young Ensemble Cast (Feature Film): Christian Convery, Jayden Greig, Carmela Nossa Guizzo, Sean Quan and Lauren McNamara [ Winner ]
• Best Leading Young Actor (Independent or Film Festival Feature Film): Jayden Greig [ Nominated ]
• Best Supporting Young Actor (Independent or Film Festival Feature Film): Sean Quan [ Nominated ]
• Best Supporting Young Actress (Independent or Film Festival Feature Film): Lauren McNamara and Carmela Nossa Guizzo [ Nominated ]

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When a tiny intergalactic starship crashes into the bedroom of middle-schooler Rod Allbright, he is enlisted by the extraterrestrial Galactic Patrol, a group of out-of-this-world lawmen, and must race to save the world from Total Planetary Disaster with his cousin Elspeth.

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‘Aliens Stole My Body’ movie, from CNY author Bruce Coville, coming to Netflix

• Updated: Apr. 20, 2021, 1:42 p.m. |
• Published: Apr. 20, 2021, 1:42 p.m.

This video still shows "Aliens Stole My Body," a new movie from a book by Syracuse-based children's author Bruce Coville.

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A new movie from Syracuse-based children’s author Bruce Coville is coming to Netflix next month.

“Aliens Stole My Body,” a sequel to 2018′s “ Aliens Ate My Homework ,” will premiere on the streaming service May 1, 2021. The live-action family film will feature “Star Trek” actor George Takei as the voice of Phil the Plant, replacing William Shatner (who played the role in the first movie).

“Aliens Stole My Body” is actually the fourth book in Coville’s “Aliens” series about Rod Allbright and the Galactic Patrol. The story follows Rod (played by returning star Jayden Greig) stranded on a distant planet, sharing the body of a one-eyed, blue alien named Seymour after B’KR, the most fiendish villain in the galaxy, stole Rod’s body.

Sean McNamara, the Emmy-nominated writer, producer and director for “Even Stevens,” “That’s So Raven,” “3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain,” “Soul Surfer” and more than 50 other titles, returns to direct the sequel.

“Aliens Stole My Body” was actually released on digital and DVD last year, but now heads to Netflix. “Aliens Ate My Homework” is currently streaming on Starz. Both films are also available to rent or purchase on demand, as well as on DVD.

Coville, who also runs an annual Halloween story contest for Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard, has sold more than 17 million copies of his books and been translated into 16 languages. Another of one of his stories, “I Was a Sixth Grade Alien!” (also known as “My Best Friend is an Alien!”), was adapted into a TV series that ran for two years in the UK, Nigeria and Australia.

But Coville was still amazed to be on the set of “Aliens At My Homework,” the film based on his book first published in 1993.

“I was gobsmacked by what I saw out there,” he told syracuse.com . “Basically I was being hugged by a living, breathing character that I created more than 25 years ago.”

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There’s a trend with Netflix movies lately where there seems to be a direct correlation between how much money the streaming platform spends on green screen effects and how bad the movie is. Jennifer Lopez’s latest movie, Atlas, is a perfect example of this, as Netflix spent huge amounts of money on this feature, and it ended up getting tanked by reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Another Netflix Sci-Fi Waste

Atlas, Netflix’s latest sci-fi action flick, debuted to less-than-stellar reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, earning a measly 17 percent approval score.

Critics have panned the film as yet another in a series of disappointing, big-budget productions from the streaming giant, drawing parallels to previous Netflix efforts such as Rebel Moon, The Adam Project, and Army of the Dead.

In Atlas, Lopez portrays Atlas Shepherd, a data analyst stranded on an alien planet amidst a war with malevolent AI robots. The film, directed by Brad Peyton and penned by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite, has been criticized for its lackluster script, heavy reliance on CGI, and clichéd storytelling.

With a rumored budget of $100 million, Atlas stands among Netflix’s most expensive original movies, alongside others that have similarly failed to impress critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

Atlas suffers from the same issues that have plagued many of Netflix’s high-cost sci-fi ventures, according to each film’s Rotten Tomatoes reviews: confusing plots, overuse of green screen effects, and an overall sense of bloat.

The film features Lopez, who previously led Netflix’s hit The Mother, in a mechanical pod, engaging in serious yet ultimately unintentionally ridiculous interactions with a Siri-like AI, voiced by Gregory James Cohan, while combating an evil AI played by Simu Liu.

Netflix’s history with such films has led to frequent criticisms. Atlas joins movies like Bright, Project Power, and Rebel Moon in the Netflix streaming catalog as films that have not only been expensive but also critically panned, with Rotten Tomatoes scores often below 70 percent. This has sparked a conversation about the sustainability and value of these big-budget productions.

Fewer And Better

However, change may be on the horizon. Dan Lin, Netflix’s new head of film, who succeeded Scott Stuber in April, has signaled a shift in strategy.

Lin claims the goal is to stop producing movies like Atlas and steer Netflix towards producing “fewer and better” original films, focusing on mid-sized offerings rather than costly, CGI-heavy spectacles, and then, hopefully, gain better reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and similar sites.

Insiders suggest this could mean a greater emphasis on comedies, rom-coms, family films, and award-season contenders, with fewer large-scale sci-fi and action projects.

Netflix Needs To Shrink Productions

Lin’s frugality, honed during his tenure at his own company, Rideback, suggests that Netflix might soon favor efficiency and quality over sheer spectacle. This pivot could mark the end of an era for the streamer’s bloated sci-fi epics like Atlas, and leave room for Netflix to secure higher scores from aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes.

The success of more modestly budgeted films like Leave the World Behind, which outperformed Rebel Moon Part One in viewership, supports this potential shift.

The Jury’s Still Out

It remains to be seen if Atlas will find success with Netflix audiences despite Rotten Tomatoes’ critical reception. The film’s performance could influence Netflix’s future production decisions.

As Lin’s strategy takes hold, there’s hope that the era of Netflix’s big-budget, mediocre sci-fi adventures may be drawing to a close, making way for a new phase of more thoughtfully crafted content.

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Jeffy keeps lying!

Marvin , Rose , and Pumpkin are all at the dinner table. Marvin yells at Pumpkin then Pumpkin jumps of the table. Marvin then calls Jeffy in for dinner. Jeffy comes to the table and is disgusted to find that he's being served green beans again. Marvin has put raisins in them to make them taste better, while he and Rose eat Mac and Cheese with raisins. Jeffy somehow was able to get Marvin to let him go to his room to eat his green beans, so he leaves the table while Marvin and Rose. Jeffy goes to the front door, opens it, and takes the plate of green beans outside. He dumps the green beans in the bushes outside and goes back in, leaving the door open, unknowingly letting Pumpkin out.

Marvin and Rose finish eating their dinner and Marvin goes to check if Jeffy ate his. Before going upstairs, Marvin notices that the front door is open, much to his horror as he thinks Pumpkin escaped. Marvin tells Rose this, much to her horror as well and they both go looking around the house trying to find Pumpkin to no avail. Marvin decides to check if Pumpkin is in Jeffy's room.

Marvin goes upstairs to Jeffy's Room to ask him where Pumpkin is. Jeffy has no idea and denies leaving the door open or throwing away his green beans. When Marvin wants Jeffy to reconfirm the truth, Jeffy starts spouting out nonsense, not taking the situation seriously. Marvin, annoyed, tells Jeffy to tell them if he sees Pumpkin and leaves his room.

At the red couch, Rose is crying and says she finished printing out several fliers about their missing cat, but Marvin points out that she forgot a picture of Pumpkin. So, Rose reprints them but due to using up all the ink for the previous fliers all of the pictures of Pumpkin are in black and white. Rose suggests putting the fliers on stop signs. Marvin objects to that at first, but ultimately agrees to put them on a few stop signs.

Marvin and Rose just got back from hanging up the fliers when Brooklyn Guy shows up in his cop outfit. He states due to the fliers being on the stop signs, he t-boned into a mini-van that had a family of 6 inside, killing 2 of them and putting the rest in the hospital. After talking about what Pumpkin looked like, Brooklyn Guy then asks how their cat got out. Marvin explains the door was open as well as asking Jeffy, to which he said no. Brooklyn Guy assumes Jeffy was lying, and states he has a lie detector in his car to test him. Marvin agrees to see if Jeffy is actually lying or not.

Brooklyn Guy brings in the lie detecting machine. He explains if someone is telling the truth, a green light would go. they put a helmet on and if they tell a lie, then the red light would go on. And if they tell a super lie the horn on the machine will go off and say "LIAR" in his voice. They all test the machine except for Rose, who runs off, and then Marvin calls Jeffy in the room.

Jeffy comes in and the 2 explain that they have a lie detector to check if Jeffy was lying about leaving the door open. After explaining how the lie detector works, Marvin asks if Jeffy left the front door open. Jeffy confirms he did, and the lie detector confirms he's telling the truth. He says he decided to tell the truth now since they were going to find out about it anyways. Jeffy then truthfully tells them that he doesn't know where Pumpkin is, and he purposefully left the front door open. He also confirmed that he used Pumpkin as toilet paper one time, which makes Marvin ground him during the entire weekend. Jeffy lies about staying in his room during this time and then leaves. Marvin and Brooklyn Guy are left stumped as to how they can find Pumpkin now. Brooklyn Guy decides to leave the lie detector on the couch for Marvin to mess with.

After messing around with the lie detector some more, Marvin hears the doorbell ring and goes to answer it. It turns out to be Mr. Goodman , who has Pumpkin. Marvin is happy he found him, and Mr. Goodman asks about getting a reward. Marvin tells him to come inside to discuss about the reward. They come on the couch and Rose is happy to see Pumpkin back. Goodman explains he almost hit Pumpkin, and only stopped as to not damage his car. Goodman demands his reward, but Rose admitted that she doesn't have a reward which anger Goodman. Goodman said he came to Marvin's house to get his house payment. Marvin lies about having it, to which Goodman puts the lie detecting helmet on Marvin and asks about his house payment. Marvin tries to lie his way out of it but the machine keeps declaring him a liar every time he does so. Goodman puts the helmet on, and truthfully tells Marvin about what he's going to do to him in gruesome detail. After which, Marvin runs with Goodman following closely behind him.

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• Marvin repeatedly calling the lie detector a time machine and Brooklyn Guy telling Marvin that it's not a time machine and that it's a lie detector.
• Jeffy saying "Ol' (thing) dick, (what the thing actually does) n' shit".
• This marks another time the word "Liar/Lie" is in the thumbnail. The first being " Jeffy's Lie! " and second being " Brooklyn Guy The Liar! ".
• This episode was uploaded 3 years after " Mr. Goodman's Clone! " and 16 years after " Wii Fit "Unboxing and Gameplay" ".
• The phone number on the missing posters is the Hogwarts hotline.
• Even though the video's called "Jeffy's Lie Detector", it's actually Brooklyn T. Guy 's lie detector and not Jeffy's lie detector.
• At one point of the video, the lie detector's red and green lightbulbs lit up at the same time which would be an impossible outcome.
• It's revealed Marvin, Rose and Jeffy still have Pumpkin as their pet since " Jeffy The Sheep !".
• In some scenes, the cast can be heard breaking character.
• In the thumbnail, the laptop was used to indicate that your telling the truth or lying but in the video a machine is used and also the lie detector helmet is different too.
• Marvin mistakes that raisins are grapes but they are actually dried grapes.
• When Jeffy threw the green beans and raisins, one green bean can still be seen on the plate. That green bean was gone in the next scene.
• At 9:12, the Lie Detector responds to Brooklyn Guy even though he isn't wearing the helmet.

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Jennifer Lopez’s new Netflix sci-fi thriller Atlas is being smashed by Rotten Tomatoes critics.

The official logline for Atlas reads, “Atlas Shepherd (Jennifer Lopez), a brilliant but misanthropic data analyst with a deep distrust of artificial intelligence, joins a mission to capture a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past. But when plans go awry, her only hope of saving the future of humanity from AI is to trust it.”

Directed by Rampage and San Andreas filmmaker Brad Peyton, the Netflix original movie premieres on the streaming service Friday. Of the 19 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes as of this publication, Atlas has a dismal 11% “rotten” rating based on 19 reviews.

Less than 50 verified users have rated the J.Lo movie so far and collectively are giving the film a 59% neutral Audience Score, so it's conceivable that Atlas could rise into positive territory with viewers as more Netflix subscribers see it.

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In his review of Atlas for Variety , Todd Gilchrist writes, “A dearth of original ideas undercuts the appeal of Atlas , leaving Lopez to fend for herself in much the same way her character is forced to in the film’s formulaic story.”

Gilchrist even takes a shot at Jennifer Lopez’s AI companion in the film, which is framed in the guise of an exo-suit.

“The exo-suit, its ‘personality’ and the film’s overall meditation on artificial intelligence feels fully cobbled together from the parts of too many earlier films to count,” Gilchrist writes in his Variety review. “The machinery of Atlas’ lifesaving exo-suit looks no different from the AMP (Amplified Mobility Platform) suits in James Cameron’s Avatar , itself a descendant of the power loader in Cameron’s Aliens .”

Meanwhile, William Bibbiani doesn’t waste any time ripping on Atlas in his review for The Wrap , writing, “Hidden somewhere beneath all the generic dialogue, embarrassing plot, mediocre action and oddly ineffective performances, there’s a good idea in Brad Peyton’s Atlas . It’s a shame the filmmakers never found it.”

As of this publication, Atlas found at least two critiques in its initial batch of 19 reviews to be “fresh.”

One of the positive notices—from Matt Donato of IGN —notes, “ Atlas earns more than a shrug, even if it won’t settle relevant and alarming debates about artificial intelligence’s place in contemporary society.”

Donato also writes in his review, “ Atlas might not be the next groundbreaking sci-fi epic, but Brad Peyton’s humanity-vs.-AI saga earns points for entertaining us with a hot-button concept that sounds far worse than its execution.”

Also starring Sterling K. Brown and Simi Liu, Atlas is streaming exclusively on Netflix .

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Thank you for that fantastic, very enthusiastic introduction as we get into Google.

In case you don't know, so welcome to the bonus episode of the SERP's Up Podcast, where each year we go through what Google announced at Google I/O, in this case Google I/O 2024. Just to remind you, by the way, the SERP's Up Podcast is brought to you by Wix, where you can only subscribe to our monthly newsletter Searchlight over at wix.com/SEO/learn/newsletter, but where you can also check out our brand new platform, Wix Studio, to help you manage your clients' projects and agency team members with far greater efficiency. Anyway, back to I/O.

Back to I/O. In case you didn't watch it before the keynote actually started, there was an improvisational musician who I'm told is very famous and very good. I don't know who he is.

I wrote to you on WhatsApp, Crystal, he looked like Joseph and took his Technicolor Dreamcoat and was sleeping on a bench in Bryant Park and kicked out of the house and decided that during the daytime, he'll spend most of his time yelling some prophetic visions about big tech by screaming the words Google, Google, Google, all day long.

I'm not sure. I think they were trying to make it fun. I did a predictions video and I thought, "Oh, maybe it'll be less fun because they're trying to focus on..." They got competitors. OpenAI did a big drop the day before, and so I thought this was going to be like, "We're very serious, boom, boom," but there was a lot of music in Google I/O, including that introduction, including it was we're in the studio, blah, blah, blah. And then there was a musical number about, am I doing the AI right, which I was very surprised to see. So, it was a lot to take in.

I'm just a boomer anyway, so don't listen to me, Google. Anyway, where do we even start? There was a lot. It was a two-hour keynote, which was very long.

I guess for our podcast and purposes, the good news is that they didn't talk a lot about search, so not a lot to cover. We're starting off salty.

They talked about Gemini a lot, and I think that the big takeaway that I got from it was essentially that Gemini is coming to everything. It's essentially powering everything all at once, and I don't think that we will see the end of that very, very soon. I think that they're just looking to build, and build, and build on that, and I think that that's very apparent that they're all on Gemini in all parts of the SERP.

You know what? It made me kind of wonder, and this is maybe a hot take, I guess the show is all about hot takes to be honest with you, that they're realizing that the ecosystem where you're going to get information in the future is going to be less search and more closed AI systems like Gemini or OpenAI, ChatGPT, that kind of thing. And at minimum, they're seeing that their revenue possibilities are greater with those AI possibilities than it is with search itself, which is interesting to hear myself even say.

Well, I think that they're noticing that this is where the market is going, that a lot of people are interested in having these kind of assistants and having these kind of assistants as part of their day to day, which I mentioned that musical number there was, "Am I doing AI right?" That sort of thing. It's like normal, everyday people. I think they were trying to go for that kind of vibe that Apple always has, which is like we have very sophisticated tech that's really, really easy for you to use. And I think that they were trying to go for that, and I think that in terms of search for SEO, I think there's a lot of implications here. And you said, "I can't believe you're saying that," and there's a lot of implications here, but it did not seem particularly search was at the forefront of their minds with this. So, they wanted to showcase how useful Gemini can be, how integrated it is to their system, how powerful it is, and how many different iterations they have across all of their systems.

So, that's I think something to keep in mind with this kind of thing that a lot of it has to do with not where they're going to earn revenue in terms of adding AI capabilities to Gmail, which they talked about in the workspace. So, I think that kind of stuff, by the way, is really cool. I think it's really useful. I think it's one of the only real cases where the AI product is really useful and it gives them a leg up over OpenAI, because Google has a whole ecosystem where they can apply their AI technology directly, so Gmail, or whatever workspace you're using, or Google Docs, whatever it is, and OpenAI doesn't have that. You're stuck in just an OpenAI universe using it independently. So that's really an interesting, I guess, advantage that Google has.

But I think they had lots of different iterations, so you mentioned the Gmail one, but they also talked about lots of personal assistance sort of things as well. So, they talked about you can train it on your needs, and I think that as you're saying, so OpenAI has standalone, and I think that when they launched New Bing and their Copilot tool, that's something they really struggled with. They were like, "You can only have Copilot, you can only have New Bing if you sign up to be on the Bing ecosystem." And I think what Google's trying to do is they're trying to double down on their user relationships, so that if you have an Android phone, you are also using Gemini, you are also relying on Google Photos, so you're searching your photos, you're searching with your videos, all of us, so that their attack is part of your day-to-day, so that you're essentially relying on it, which is a big shift. I think there's a shift. I think that's a big shift.

There's that stuff, which I think is very practical and I think very useful and I think very direct, and then I think there's the other half of it, which is let's make sure we signal to the investors, so that our stock price is healthy, that we are competing with OpenAI and our technology is just as advanced, if not more advanced than theirs is. And I think a lot of what you saw yesterday or wherever you're listening to this at Google I/O was a lot about that. So for example, a lot of the things they did with DeepMind, I felt like, "That's cool. I'm not sure how practically valuable that is yet." I felt that way, by the way, with OpenAI's demo also, "Very, very cool, but I'm not sure what's the practical implication of that, so that it actually improves my workflow right now."

My main takeaway from all of it was they kept saying, "You can upload this, you can have more tokens." They said you can upload like a -

It’s like Chucky Cheese!

They were saying something like you can upload... I can't remember what the number was, but it was huge, like a 1,500 slide PowerPoint... Or not PowerPoint, Google Slide deck or something like that. I was like, "Who is making this?"

That's interesting, because I felt what they were trying to do with that kind of stuff was differentiate themselves from OpenAI. OpenAI is for everybody, for the lay person to use on their phone and whatever, and Gemini is for developers, and engineers, and it's very complicated and professional. That was a branding differentiation they were trying to do.

But I think that the thing that occurred to me though is that when we think about SEO, they were saying, "You can upload all of this and we can search all of it, and you can upload all of that and we can search all of that." And they were talking about that from their tools point of view. Google very often... Google does not silo their tools. They will overlap the tools as we see with Gemini, you see with Google Lens, as we see with Google Translate, they pull all of these things together across the ecosystem through the efficiencies and it gives users to great benefit. So, what I think we should think about as an SEO, as somebody who's working with the website is, how is Google helping users manage data via their tools and how does that affect how the users are going to access data and expect to be able to access data on a website?

And I think that the shift to me that I got out of this was that users... Sorry, website managers, SEOs, marketing teams, whoever's managing the website should be thinking about their website as a data center and should be thinking about how accessible their data is, which ways their data is arranged, whether or not it's held in certain repositories, in like a PDF, or whether it's held in videos. They're talking about searching via video, which I think is a really interesting development. And I think that that opens up a lot of stuff, because that's almost certainly going to be something that's going to make YouTube videos more searchable, for instance. And I think that that's something that's interesting for people who were self-hosting on their websites. And also I think that's interesting for that data point I mean, we're going to be... I think that going forward it's going to be more updated to take advantage, and I think that'll be interesting.

And I think it's the circle to search where we saw them, we covered that on the news on this podcast a while back when they tested it. That stuff is fascinating. It's super cool technology and it really doesn't make searching for things much easier, but I guess let's talk about the elephant in the room, which is the elephant. There's an elephant in the room and oh my God, we're talking about an elephant. No, no, we're talking about SGE.

So, Google announced that they're going to be rolling out SGE outside of labs in the US and beyond. It's the end of all organic traffic ever, or not.

Again, again.

I was surprised by the way, so I was surprised that if you think about what they announced in terms of the classic SGE itself, and I know there's more capabilities which we'll get to about planning and organizing information, but the actual how many stars are in the universe and you get an SGE answer, nothing actually changed. They announced at Indutech and in DEV4, it's just the same thing. They're sufficiently rolling it out, and I think that's extremely telling about how they think about SGE, and part of me feels like they announced it, and this is a hot take, they announced it, because they had to announce that the rolling it out, because what are you going to do with the thing? You're not going to implement it, and there's a loss in having it there. You have to expand it anyway, so you could ignore it if you want to. So, let's roll it out. Again, it's good for perception, it's good for the health of the company and the perception of the company, but how impactful is the real question? Will SGE really be on the SERP?

I think really interesting. So one of the things they said, they said that they're going to put it in a side panel, which I've been fascinated with. We've talked about Google copying Microsoft's homework, and the Copilot has been in the side panel on desktop for months. And basically if you go and you search up, I don't know, the best Yankee baseball player or something, then you'll get the-

Yogi Berra.

… Yogi Berra and then you'll have on the side it'll be like, "Blah, blah, blah, Yogi Berra..." And it'll write that and you may or may not pay attention to it, but that's already in the side panel on thing and it's user experience of people, what people are used to, and I think it's interesting that they were planning to do that as well. So, I think we should see some parity, and I think also it might be worth thinking about people are trying to prepare for this SGE universe looking at how their rankings have been impacted since being rolled that out, how their bidding rankings have been impacted since being rolled that out. I think that's particularly important for folks who are in EU, folks who are outside of the United States where they haven't had the SGE in any form. And so, we're not here on green fields. There is something that we can look at to compare data in terms of impact, and I think that that's worth having a look at.

And that's interesting. I was talking to Garrett Sussman on X about this where SGE has been outside of labs in the US for a while already, and I personally haven't seen anybody, "Oh, the sky is falling," yet. And that's one thing that Google didn't say. They didn't say, "Oh, people find the SGE answers useful and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah," which everyone's got to put that PR spin on it, but they didn't say how often people are actually expanding it and interacting with it, which if the numbers were high, I would imagine they would say, "Oh, 80% of our users when SGE has been offered are engaging with..." And they didn't. So, I do speculate about how much the SGE will actually be used by users, but let's assume for a minute, Crystal, that everyone 100% of the time engages the SGE. Does that mean is the end of content as we know it?

Well, one of the things that I thought was interesting was that they were talking about talk as much as you want, ask as long as you want, go as complex as you want in terms of your answers. So, I think the example that they showed was, "I want to find a yoga studio that's walking distance from this place in Boston, and has good entry offers," or something to the effect. And they were able to filter out this, this, this, and this, and this, and this, and I think that this is the domain of the long-tail. This is something that for long-tail queries and also for understanding the element of that, what users are looking for, which combinations of information users are looking for is something that is interesting. So, I don't think it's necessarily the end of content, but I do think that we'll have to think about user expectations. Users will expect to be able to have more complex information available on the website, and I think also we will need to be able to organize that information more clearly in lots of different ways they're accessible to Google.

I'm a little torn on this one because on the one hand it seems like, "All right, let's slow down here." On the other hand, the way that Google presented it in the video that they did, if you saw after the presentation itself, they did a whole, I don't know, a PR-ish kind of video. It very much looks like, or I took it and perceived it as they're basically saying SGE is going to replace top level information, which is, okay, let's deal with that as it is. At the same time, I feel like, yes, they did tell Barry Schwartz on Search Engine Land that's going for complex queries where they can offer unique value, but if you look at the examples that people have been sharing, it's not for that. So for example, Christine Schacker shared an example with me where they're running it for... I had to deal with the kidney stone, something around that.

I'm like, "Okay, that's interesting, that's not very complex." If you Google that, you'll get your typical Mayo Clinic, Harvard Health rundown of symptoms and causes and treatment and whatever. And what I take this as is Google basically saying, "Hey, you know what? You all have done that 100 times over already, 1,000 times over, we don't need that anymore. So, we're just going to show that in the SGE, because SGE actually, and I do believe this, does it better if it's accurate, because it's much more as opposed to, let's say the Mayo Clinic, they have their article, and the Cleveland clinic has their article. If you sort of combine the best of those articles, that's better.

Or I think though that content's not dead is, for example, in this whole prolific they had about preventing or dealing with kidney stones, which is such a pleasant topic, they had a section on, for example, avoiding protein, because that will prevent having kidney stones for whatever reason. I'm totally botching what it wrote, because I know nothing about kidney stones. I'm not a doctor. “Damnit Jim, I'm not a doctor.” That's not how that goes, but anyway, so if I had kidney stones and I'm like, "Oh, wait a second, I can prevent this again by not eating whatever protein?" That summary's not enough. The second tier or second level or second depth content I'll call it, you still need to click, you still need to dive in.

And what I think it means is that if a website... See, I was talking to someone, I talking to Mark Preston about this today actually, when we think about writing a content cluster, so we'll be like, "How to prevent kidney stones," and we'll talk about medicine on one page and we'll talk about diet on another page. We think it's very prolific, but when you think about it, it's still very top level. A real in-depth topic cluster would be a content cluster about protein, eating it, and the prevention of kidney stones. Like for example, one topic would be, what proteins do or don't?

Another page would be, for example, I'm off the cuff here, how do you now substitute your diet to get the protein you do need without eating protein to prevent kidney stones? There's a whole topic cluster about just that one slice of preventing kidney stones, which no one's doing, because that's way too in-depth kind of thing, but I feel like if you want to be the URL that shows up in the section of the SGE, that talks about preventing kidney stones with a protein-less diet, whatever it is, then you need to write that content cluster and be known as that entity that talks about what? Not kidney stones, not diet and kidney stones, preventing kidney stones with a less protein diet. So, I think content's alive, but I think it's a very different model than we currently look at it.

And I think that it's going to shift the way that people think about content. And I've been here with content projects as well, where sometimes you're writing the content that is the primer, that is the, "What are kidney stones? What are the things..." You're writing that primer content, but you might not necessarily even expect that to rank particularly. You need to have that as part of your ecosystem, you need to have that in order to have content cluster salience, you need to have that in order to make sure that you can link to yourself instead link to someone else. And for people who are already on your website to understand that you know what that topic is and that sort of thing, you might not necessarily exactly trend. And I think that that will change the way people think about things. I think also where we are able to pull out those unique pieces of content from users that we are speaking with, that I think is a real content opportunity.

So, where we know there is a deep cut question that only we can answer, that's really important. So, I think that the tools that we use for keyword research are going to be really important as well, because Google knows which ones have the giant volume. And I've started using Bing a lot recently, and I use Copilot when I get stuck, but if I've been searching on Google, "How do I answer this question?" Searching on Bing, "How do I answer this question?" If I find that in between the two of them, I can't find anything, then it goes to one of the LLMs, I'll go to Bing Copilot, I'll go to ChatGPT, I'll go to something else because I'm like, "Clearly, I'm not getting what I need. Maybe you can point me in the right direction with either the right terminology or the right ideas, or maybe you can verify this confusing information that I have."

So I think that those, to use a phrase that Google uses very often, those needle and a haystack things, sometimes Google can point you in the right direction or sometimes an LLM can point you in the right direction of what you should be searching for, so that you can do a better search, so that's useful. I think also in terms of content opportunities in this sort of SGE everywhere world, I think that the new is your friend, because like you said, some of that well-worn territory of what is a key of kidney stone or what is a search engine or the kinds of things that they clearly have in the militrap. They've got it in the militrap, they know what it is. That sort of content, I think that that's right for Picket in terms of SGE. But new content and new information leads to insights on new things that are happening are going to be going to be a good place for websites to think that it may even be the reverse of journalism that websites are going to need to employ journalists for their sector, for their vertical.

It's definitely a constriction of content, but it's not the elimination of content. So, I feel like content's been out of control. It's been in need of a correction for a long time, and this might be that. Is it going too far? I do have a feeling that Google might be going a little bit too far and the ecosystem, it won't be healthy enough and creating enough content, but that's a different question for a different time.

I also want to talk about what they didn't talk about. So, they didn't talk about Reddit at all, which is very surprised about.

They know that the Reddit thing is only a crutch. It's only there because they need to have the first-hand knowledge. No one really wants the Reddit there. They just have nothing else.

I wasn’t surprised, but there wasn't a whole lot in terms of e-coms. Normally they're all in e-com, e-com, e-com, e-com, e-com, shoppity, shop, shop, shop.

Because Amazon's not the competitor anymore. OpenAI is the competitor.

That's why they said AI over and over. It's super cut of them saying AI often though.

Google, Google. The whole thing is interesting. I think the most interesting thing is the thematic trends throughout the whole thing, that being one of them, or the fact that everyone's saying, "Oh, SGE is going to be the end of content, blah, blah, blah," but look at the other thing. Google announced. And by the way, I just want to say predicted this in our talk with Danny Goodwin on a previous episode about Gemini, I said Google's going to take the custom answer formatting that Gemini produces and bringing that to the SERP. And lo and behold, Google said, "We're taking an AI approach to the SERP, the layout and presentation of the SERP results themselves, here you go. And that to me... So on the one hand you have, "Oh, SGE is going to answer everything," but if that's the case, then why is Google also investing in having the SERP being formatted by AI to make it easier for you to explore the topic? Because they know that people don't just want the answer. There still is an exploration element, so they're going to invest in both. Big thing for me.

Also, Google needs to be able to send people's websites in order for their revenue. Their ad revenue is a strong tool for them, so they need to be able to make sure that that ecosystem doesn't fall apart.

Totally. One last thing we didn't cover, which we need to cover, and that's the trip planning and the menu planning, all the organizational stuff, which is interesting. Now, Google... We covered this also on the Snappy news before, but Google has been testing the trip planner for a while. So you type in, "Plan my trip to Philadelphia," and it says, "Don't go there." I'm just kidding. It plans out you're five days in Philly for you. And then if you want to create a low-carb daily menu plan for me that focuses on chicken and whatever, whatever, it'll create a menu plan for you. Again, "Oh, it's the end of these websites. It's the end of all the websites." I don't know. I got feelings about this. I'll give you my example. I put this on X earlier today.

So, three years ago I got diagnosed. Is it a diagnosis? I don't know, with a fatty liver. I ate too much during COVID, I drank too much during COVID, and I watched too much Netflix during COVID. The Netflix part had less to do with the fatty liver part, and I completely changed my diet. I didn't go to Google. I didn't even think about going to Google and asking it, "Can you please plan a menu so I don't leave my children fatherless?" I went to a nutritionist and then when I had specific questions about what that nutritionist said, I started Googling, "Does this food..."

She said, "Here's the criteria, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." "Does this food meet that criteria?" And I did Google that, so I feel like a casual trip or a casual diet plan you might search for. I went to a conference, I got an extra day in Philly, what should I do today? If I'm spilling 10 grand to take my family to LA or to San Francisco or to Philly for that matter, I am not saying, "All right, plan my trip for me and see you later. I'll just do whatever the AI says."

So, I think it's really interesting that they chose the trip thing again as well, because they talked about the trip or planning a trip for when they were talking about MUM, when they were like, "Oh, we're multi-modal with MUM." They talked about the trip when they were talking about the Google when they originally announced Gemini and AI and stuff. So, they've talked about planning a trip for a few times, and one of the times that they talked about planning a trip, they got things wrong. So, I think it's interesting that they went back to this as a trope and as a use case, because planning a trip is really complex, as you say. So, it's interesting to use it as an example.

By the way, parenthetically, they announced this whole multi-step search result reason, multi-step reasoning, which you mentioned before. I kind of feel like old, not new?

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff where I remember when they were like, "MUM is going to be the new thing," and MUM is now kind of in Gemini kind of.

That's what MUM did. MUM did the multiple reasoning, parsing …

But with AI.

Oh, it's different, I forgot.

I'm sure that MUM didn't have any AI to begin with. I'm sure that there wasn't.

No, that's just machine learning, an inferior version of AI.

Of course,. I think the next few months will be interesting. I think the international rollout of Gemini and all of the different elements that are associated with it will be really interesting, and I think it felt a little inconclusive overall. Overall, it felt a little bit work in progress rather than, "Here's the thing and here's exactly what we're doing." It felt a little bit work in progress and I was fascinated that there weren't as many hot takes as there normally are from Google I/O.

No, I knew that.

It kind feels a little work in progress, so we'll see.

Interesting, all right. I guess we'll wait and see, and also the sky is not falling.

No, not yet, but I do think if people want to do anything, then if you were to take any next steps out of this, I'd probably say shore up your knowledge panel.

It's always a good idea anyway.

I would say add a layer of topical depth to your website if you don't have it.

Oh, that's good, so these are top tips.

Two takeaways. All right, we did good. We have two takeaways for you. Two is better than one

Ai, Google. That'll do it for I/O, I guess. I/O you one for joining me today and spending your time with recording this, Crystal. I owe you one.

Thank you very much.

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