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Influencer Marketing
Expand your reach and engage with your target audience using this trending technique that blends celebrity endorsements with social media marketing.
Leading High Performing Remote Teams
How can leaders ensure that performance remains high in remote or hybrid-work environments?
Design Thinking
Learn the 5 phases of this problem-solving methodology and switch from technology-centered to user-centered thinking.
Gantt Chart
Invented in the early 20th century, the Gantt Chart is one of the building blocks of modern project management. In this online course, you'll learn how this tool can be used effectively to monitor progress and achieve your team's goals.
Navigating Change Successfully
The working landscape is continually shifting and being disrupted, so how to employees maintain a sense of stability? Listen to CEO and president of Carl ZEISS Japan Stefan Sacre share his expertise on dealing with change in organizations and entire industries.
Halo Effect
The halo effect is often leveraged for marketing and promotion. But as a type of cognitive bias, it can also have a subconscious impact on decision-making in the workplace. Learn why and (how to overcome it) in this online course.
Anchoring and Framing
Want to increase your confidence during negotiations? Master the principles of anchoring and framing to take your negotiation skills to the next level.
ZOPA and BATNA
Understanding ZOPA and BATNA will help you become a better negotiator, create more value, and feel more confident at the table.
Content Marketing
In this course, youโll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. Youโll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
Get started on your content marketing journey today.
Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
It's time to find out.
Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
Blockchain
Blockchain is one of the most captivating technologies out there. Learn what it is and how to make use of its opportunities in this short online course.
Mehrabianโs Rule
The 7-38-55 Rule, developed by Albert Mehrabian, suggests that effective communication relies less on the words we choose than on our tone of our voice, appearance, and body language. Learn how to put this theory to use for better communication in business.
Pareto Principle
Your time and resources are limited. Efficiency means learning to prioritize. The Pareto principle (also called the 80-20 rule) can help you identify the best way to use your time for maximum results.
Country Analysis Framework
Overseas expansion requires careful planning. The Country Analysis Framework can help you look beyond an industry-level analysis and reframe your view based on performance, strategy, and context. Try this short course to learn how it works.
SECI Model
The SECI model illustrates how knowledge is created and shared. Learn how to put it to use for best practices, and how the Japanese concept of โbaโ fits in to broaden your perspective.
Johari Window Model
The Johari Window Model is a self-awareness framework that helps you better understand . . . you. Learn how its four quadrants can help you identify gaps between how you see yourself, and how others see you.
Sunk Costs
Wondering if you should continue an investment or look for something new? Sunk costs can have a powerful psychological impact on decision-making. Learn how to recognize them to ensure rational decisions.
CAGE Distance Framework
Want to expand overseas? The CAGE distance framework can help ensure you're constructing a solid global strategy in four areas: cultural, administrative, economic, and geographic. Learn how to leverage useful differences between countries, identify potential obstacles, and achieve global business success.
Groupthink
Groupthink refers to group pressure and the perception of consensus which together lead to ill-formed decisionsโor even unnecessary risks. Learn to identify the warning signs of groupthink and apply countermeasures in this online course.
Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Solving problems with the best results means using two types of thinking: deductive and inductive reasoning. In this online course, learn to form a broad premise, make observations, and form conclusions from different perspectives.
Critical Thinking: Hypothesis-Driven Thinking
Anyone can come up with a good idea. The real challenge is putting that idea into action. In this online course, explore how to form compelling, testable hypotheses and bring ideas to life in your own organization.
Critical Thinking: Structured Reasoning
Even a few simple techniques for logical decision making and persuasion can vastly improve your skills as a leader. Explore how critical thinking can help you evaluate complex business problems, reduce bias, and devise effective solutions.
Critical Thinking: Problem-Solving
Problem-solving is a central business skill, and yet it's the one many people struggle with most. This course will show you how to apply critical thinking techniques to common business examples, avoid misunderstandings, and get at the root of any problem.
How to Dream
Join globally renowned author and Columbia Business School professor Dr. Sheena Iyengar as she explains how to approach your dreams with a new perspective. Learn to reflect on what you long to accomplish and what stands in your way.
Logical Thinking
Logical thinking is at the heart of confident, persuasive decisions. This course will equip you with a five-point approach to more becoming a more logical thinker. Learn to classify ideas and distinguish fact from opinion.
Investing & Diversity: The Changing Faces of Venture Capitalists
Is the venture capital industry embracing diversity in investors? Watch global venture capitalists from around the world discuss the state of things and what needs to be done for a more inclusive future.
Servant Leadership
There's more to leadership than driving a team to profit. In fact, there's a word for looking beyond self-interest to prioritize individual growth: servant leadership. Try this course for a quick breakdown of what that is, how it works, and how it can lead to organizational success.
Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Ever wonder what makes a great leader? Whether your role requires leadership or not, understanding organizational behavior is useful for your career. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can set you on your way.
Leadership vs. Management
Leadership and management are different skills, but todayโs leaders must have both. Try out this course from GLOBIS Unlimited to understand the difference, as well as when and why each skill is necessary for motivation, communication, and value.
Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
Have you ever wondered why certain companies are more successful than others? The answer is strategy: internal processes that control costs, allocate resources, and create value. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can give you the tools you need for that strategic edge.
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To plan strategy on any level, you need to understand your company's external environment. In fact, your level of understanding can impact hiring, budgeting, marketing, or nearly any other part of the business world. Want to learn how to do all that? This course from GLOBIS Unlimited is the perfect first step!
Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
Japanese companies have unique cultural, communication, and operational challenges. But they also have values that have led to remarkable longevity. Check out this seminar to hear how these values help earn trust from overseas head offices and develop employees.
Turnaround Leadership: The Differences Between Japan and the West
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Conflict Management
Conflicts in the workplace are inevitable. But they can lead to positive outcomes if theyโre managed well. Check out this online course for a two-step process that can help you manage conflict successfully.
Evernote Founder: How Tech Startups Can Break through in Japan
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Women Empowerment: Lessons from Cartier
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Marketing: Reaching Your Target
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Marketing Mix
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The Principles of Negotiation
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TL;DR: From ChatGPT and Facebook to Amazon, podcasts, and community platforms like Reddit, online discovery is no longer confined to search engines. AI and digital technologies are revolutionizing the ways people search for information onlineโushering in an era of AI-powered, multi-channel, community-driven and interconnected discovery.
For nearly two decades, the search bar was the gateway to the internetโand the phrase โGoogle itโ was synonymous with search. Googleโs search monopoly, accounting for more than 90% of all organic searches made online, isnโt surprising. What is surprising is that its market share consistently dipped below 90% this yearโthe first time in a decade.
While Google still dominates the internet, its seemingly negligible 0.91% slip in the market share of search reveals a groundbreaking shift in how people discover information online. With so much data manipulated for high visibility on social media feeds and Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), more people are losing trust in unvetted AI-generated answers, sponsored content and digital junkโturning to alternative channels for online discovery.
Finding meaningful information in a vast digital ocean used to be direct, simple and straightforward. Today, search is a multi-layered process with diverse sources for understanding. With the worldโs longest-leading search engine beginning to feel โmore like a gatekeeper than a gatewayโ, as one user writes in a sentiment echoing growing collective dissatisfaction, the world faces a new era of era of information retrievalโone with vast implications for how people access, understand and use knowledge.
Welcome to a new generation of online discovery.
In a digital universe expanding across zettabytes of data, search engines were originally designed to efficiently organize and sort through all that informationโonce providing a clear directory of clean web links in response to user queries.
In 2025, SERPs seem to have devolved in qualityโbecoming as scattered as the worldwide web of mostly junk data they now seek to organize. Users report Google SERPs littered with ads, affiliate-driven content, keyword stuffing and zero-click summarized answers that seem to monopolize Googleโs hold on information by reducing the need for users to click through websites themselves.
A growing frustration with poor search quality, combined with profound digital fatigue affecting most adult internet users today, is changing consumer behaviors and fragmenting the search landscape. Todayโs users distrust traditional ads; prefer immersive content over text-heavy sites; seek personalization and relevance; and consume content across different channels.
From peer reviews, podcasts and short-form influencer videos to AI-curated feeds, the journey of online discovery today is no longer linear or static. Itโs a web of dynamic touchpoints that connect different user expectations with multimodal platforms; where trust, context and personalization still decide the outcome.
We’re moving from search engines to social media discovery.
With over five billion users and counting, social media platforms are emerging as powerful vertical search engines for online discoveryโespecially for brands, products, reviews and inspiration.
Social media offers diverse platforms that address different user search needs. People watch YouTube for tutorials, reviews and entertainment; scroll through Facebook Groups for in-the-know advice and professional discussions; visit Pinterest boards for visual inspiration; and flock to Instagram for the latest #trends.
Access to real-time information, authentic voices and communities have positioned social media as a useful tool for brands to reach customers old and newโfueling the growth of social commerce in digital ecosystems where discovery, decision and purchase all happen in one platform. According to a report, 93% of businesses view social media data and insights as a primary source of business intelligence.
This growing trend will most likely stay, with 24% of consumers now using various social media channels for primary searches. While Gen Z and Alpha prefer TikTok, Millennials and Gen X still trust Google and Boomers lean toward more traditional newsletters and radio-reminiscent podcasts.
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The State of Search Engines in 2025 is Concerning
Folks clearly love AI-Powered, conversational, and personalized search.
Another revolutionary shift in search has been the impact of AIโwhich is redefining traditional search by moving from keywords to conversations, transforming search engines into answer engines.
For a long time, online discovery via the search bar was a simple matter of keyword matching and optimizationโa practice that continues to lose efficiency as data exponentially increases. Today, Machine Learning, evolving Natural Language Processing algorithms and Large Language Models enable AIโs deeper understanding of context, nuances of meaning and semantics of intentโcreating human-like answers to complex queries with greater accuracy, relevance and speed.
AI-powered search improves how big data is handled by allowing for unified search across content, sources and platforms. At the same time, Generative AI allows for the creation of original AI-made contentโfrom text-based recommendations, reviews, summaries and translations to images, videos and audio based on large datasets.
These integrated AI technologies applied in information discovery have led to unprecedented search possibilities. Users can now conduct conversational voice search sessions with AI assistants like ChatGPT and Alexa, or an integrated multimodal search via Google Lens based on images and metatags embedded in video and audio.
Additionally, AI-assisted search summarizes information, reviews data and recommends other content and links for users. This also allows for highly personalized search experiences, where users scroll through customized social media feeds and receive search recommendations based on their browsing history, online actions and digital footsteps.
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Why is AI Slop Flooding the Internetโand Can It Be Stopped?
But what’s the impact of AI-powered search?
Zero-Click + Zero-Query = Zero Critical Thinking?
AIโs impact on search, which has become a journey of refining the perfect answer engine, now involves the race toward a zero-click search experience. Googleโs AI Overview is an example of this, where users are given a concise, direct answer to a query on its SERP in one screen which summarizes sources across the webโremoving the need to scroll down or click through links to access the original content.
While convenient, the zero-click habit of receiving easy answers to questions removes the need for any critical review of sources or original thinking whatsoever. Without the need for users to click through external links, diminishing website traffic also hurts brand revenue.
Eventually, the aim of zero-click is to arrive at zero-query search, where users no longer need to ask the questions themselves. When AI predicts user search needs in advance by supplying useful information upfront, users will no longer need to think at all.
Authenticity Over AI.
The exponential rise of AI-generated, ad-driven, spammy contentโalong with inaccuracies and misinformation risks caused by AI errors and hallucinationsโlittering the internet is driving a growing demand for genuine human-made content. Brands and creators that speak from the authenticity of human experience will have authority and influence over discerning users looking for content that prioritizes quality and substance over quantity.
In a diverse search landscape powered by intelligent algorithms, well-structured and high-quality human-made content will also be fundamental to future search visibility.
The Growth of Diverse, Niche & Community-Based Platforms.
Niche online communities and specialized forums such as Facebook Groups, Reddit and Discord are thriving these days as more users crave peer-to-peer authenticity and direct, unfiltered insights unaffected by advertising and monetization.
These communities act as curated content hubs where information based on expertise and professional opinion is highly valued for its perceived authenticity and trustworthinessโtwo content conditions vital for the future of efficient search.
Social Media, E-Commerce & the โEcho Chambersโ of โWalled Gardensโ.
The line between social media and e-commerce platforms is blurring with the rise of social commerce. Today, AI-powered search, discovery and conversion often happen within one platform, where algorithm-driven recommendations and personalized feeds shape consumer choices.
These social commerce platforms turn into closed ecosystemsโโwalled gardensโ where users increasingly spend more timeโthus bypassing the need for Google entirely. Users however risk limiting themselves to โecho chambersโ of controlled information and activity without any access to diverse data beyond what they see in their tailored feeds.
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Digital Marketing . . . Basically
How can business adapt to the era of multi-channel, intelligent discovery?
In a multifaceted ecosystem of AI-powered search, brands and content creators will have to diversify beyond Google search and tap into alternative formats to reach audiences across their trusted platforms. Visibility now means โconnected discoverabilityโโembracing social media, digital communities, social commerce, AI assistants and vertical search engines like Amazon, Pinterest and niche review sites.
For marketers and SEO professionals, this means moving from digital siloes to connected strategies that favor an integrated approach to visibilityโwhere SEO, social media and paid search act as complementary elements of a unified discovery plan.
Content should now be structured and optimized for AI & Zero-Click environments โ with concise answers, schema markup and credibility signals for a brand and its content to be recognized by AI in search results.
Personalization also remains high on the list of seamless user experience, where feeds and online experiences align with user behaviors and preferences.
Wrapping up…
The changing ways people discover information online in 2025 reflects a fundamental shift in the landscape of internet search: the search bar is no longer the sole gateway to the internet. Instead, discovery is happening everywhereโfrom social media feeds, e-commerce platforms and niche online communities to AI assistants, podcasts and newsletters.
The average adult internet user today uses 5.8 different search platforms and counting to discover new brands, information and products. As AI and digital technologies evolve, internet users across the board must adapt to shifting behaviors, trends and processes.
For businesses, content creators and digital marketers, this means building brand and content presence across diverse platforms and adapting to trends in voice search, visual search and social commerce.
While discovery has become more fragmented, it has also turned into a richer, more human and more personalized experience. The future of search visibility belongs to those that go beyond Google Search and welcome this multi-channel, digital ecosystem of curiosity, discovery and trust.
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