Google published documentation explaining its testing of Web Bot Auth, an experimental IETF protocol that can help websites cryptographically verify some automated requests from bots and AI agents. The protocol…

Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has filed a civil lawsuit against Google, alleging an AI Overview falsely identified him as a convicted sex offender. The lawsuit could test how courts treat…

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Google previewed several updates to its advertising measurement tools, including a new open-source incrementality testing solution and an enterprise platform for marketing mix modeling. The announcements come ahead of Google…

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Google’s Liz Reid explained on the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast how AI Mode and AI Overviews are enabling detailed, need-based query patterns that create new challenges for Google. This points…

Google’s Liz Reid recently discussed what goes on behind the scenes of AI Search, particularly with the fragmentation of complex queries into smaller ones and a relatively new concept, Browsy…

Google’s Martin Splitt and Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, recently discussed how AI is changing Google and SEO. Todorovic encouraged SEOs and businesses to take advantage…

Google Ads has gone through a steady wave of changes over the past year. Advancements in outputs like Demand Gen and AI Max, and shifts in how users interact with…

A good webinar program does three things at once: It teaches the audience what they want to learn. It produces an asset that keeps generating leads. And it captures behavioral…

Performance Max was created to be the set-it-and-forget-it automation play Google dreamed up. But, five years in, the only way PMax works is when you actively guide it, and it…

Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, appeared on an episode of Search Off the Record to discuss how AI evolved inside Google Search. Todorovic leads Google’s SafeSearch…

Ask.com, the search engine that started life as Ask Jeeves, shut down. Parent company IAC discontinued its search business as part of an ongoing effort to refocus its operations. A…

An analysis from Amsive found that aggregators and user-generated content platforms lost US search visibility after Google’s March core update, while first-party brand sites, government domains, and content originators gained.…

There’s a lesson from the early days of social media that most brands eventually learned the hard way: Social media is not a megaphone. You couldn’t just broadcast your press…

Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings with Google Search & Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. Microsoft announced on the same day that Bing reached 1 billion…

Jan-Willem Bobbink shared a take on X, that AI visibility trackers are quietly breaking the analytics of brands who are paying them to track for them. It’s time we put…

Microsoft announced that Bing has reached 1 billion monthly active users for the first time. CEO Satya Nadella revealed this figure during the Q3 FY2026 earnings call. Revenue from search…

Google updated its Search Central documentation to reflect that the Preferred Sources feature is now available in all languages supported by Google Search. The change clarifies global availability and introduces…

The page tells developers that websites have “a new type of visitor” and recommends building for agents alongside humans. Most of the guidance maps to existing accessibility and semantic HTML…

What signals actually drive AI search visibility? Are competitors getting cited in AI Overviews while you’re watching from the sidelines? How do you go from AI visibility gap alerts to…

On April 16, 2026, Robby Stein, Google Search’s VP of Product, and Mike Torres, Google Chrome’s VP of Product, announced a new way to explore the web with AI Mode…

This week’s Pulse covers how AI Overviews affect click behavior, what independent research shows, and what earnings reports from Google and Microsoft reveal about search revenue. Here’s what matters for…

Google has officially expanded AI Max to Shopping and Travel campaigns as it hits one year in market. The announcement comes on the heels of its upcoming annual Google Marketing…

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Google is rolling out two new features for AI Max that aim to address a common tension: bridging the gap between manual control and execution. The first new feature is…

Aleyda Solis, founder of Orainti, analyzed 87 million AI search visits across 10 markets, finding most clicks go to local domains rather than global defaults. Using Similarweb data, she examined…

Hiring managers are watching something uncomfortable happen in interview rooms right now. Candidates arrive with the right credentials, the right vocabulary, the right tool stack on their résumés, and then…