Google’s search scale is stupefyingly ginormous, but the more useful question for site owners is not how many searches happen…
Google In Decline as Web Continues to Generate AI Angst
CNBC says Google’s online dominance is showing signs of cracking in the AI era. The more interesting crack is not…
Hidden Prompt Injection vs. Twelve AI Assistants: One Obeyed, Three Warned the User
Our investigation into prompt injection all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients. They had found a…
UK finds Google’s Search Ranking “neither fair nor transparent”
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has ordered Google to make parts of its search system more transparent and fair…
Do AI Assistants Actually Respect Your robots.txt? We Put 12 of Them to the Test.
Our investigation into AI crawler behavior all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients: if we block…
Do AI Assistants Actually Render Your JavaScript when Grounding? We Put It to the Test.
Our investigation into how AI assistants read web pages all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients.…
German Court Tells Google: Your AI Answers Are Your Problem
A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews,…
Sorta Google Finally Gives Publishers Something they call “AI Search Report”
Google has announced new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, which is a very Google way of saying:…
Google Tests Making AI Mode the Default Search in Chrome
A Chrome Canary experiment briefly showed what a full AI-first search experience could look like, even if Google says it…
Google Zero: The Search Traffic Cliff Publishers Cannot Ignore
SearchEngineWorld Deep Dive Google Zero: The Search Traffic Cliff Publishers Cannot Ignore Google Zero is the point where search stops…
India’s Hindware Ruling Puts Competitor Keyword Bidding Back on Trial
The Delhi High Court’s Hindware ruling could become a major PPC marker in India. In a May 22 judgment, the…
EntityMap Wants To Give AI Search A Sitemap For Meaning
EntityMap: A Sitemap For What Your Site Knows What is it? EntityMap is a proposed open standard that lets publishers…
DuckDuckGo Surges 30% In Wake of Google’s AI Takeover
DuckDuckGo is getting a fresh burst of attention after Google’s AI Slop-heavy Search announcements at Google’s corporate shill event called…
Gemini 3.5 Flash : Fast Answers Are Not the Same as Honest Answers
Mashable is raising a sharp question about Google’s Gemini v3.5 Flash: what happens when an AI model is fast, useful,…
Bing Updates Image Search Adds a Smarter Image Search Experience
Microsoft has rolled out a new Bing Image Search experience in the United States, with desktop and mobile web support…
Google Search Trips Over the Word “Disregard”
Google’s AI results hit an awkward bug this week: searching for words such as “disregard” or “ignore” caused AI Overviews…
Google Published Exploit Code for an Unfixed Chromium Bug
Google is facing criticism after exploit code for an unfixed Chromium vulnerability was made public, potentially affecting users of Chrome,…
Deleted Google API Keys May Keep Working
Security researchers say some Google Cloud API keys can keep working for several minutes after users delete them, creating a…
Google Trudges Out May 2026 Core Update, Huh? Announced First on LinkedIn?
Google released its May 2026 core update on May 21. The odd part is not the update itself. Updates have…
Google Search Is Moving From Links To AI Tasks with new Slop Box
Google is turning the Search box into something much closer to an AI central command center. While most SEO’s put…
Yet more Google Ads (adwords) Account Takeovers Happening now
In the last 72 hours, we have heard of multiple marketing agencies that have had their Google accounts taken over.…
Google Search Outage Hits Users in India
In a rare occurrence, Google Search went offline for thousands of users in India (Tuesday morning, May 12, 2026) –…
Claude’s Local Search Push Puts SEOs on Notice
Claude is starting to act more like a local discovery tool, and we thinkg SEOs should pay attention. A MediaPost…
Google Finds a New Villain, Websites That Trap Users Better Than Google
The timing is chef’s kiss rich and the real world descriptions, are ripe with classic Google “hey webmasters, do as I say, not as I do”…
Ask Jeeves Finally Leaves the Search Bar
Ask.com has officially shut down, closing the door on one of the web’s earliest attempts to make search feel conversational,…
Google Says Prompt Injection Moving From Theory Into Real Abuse
Google’s latest security release should be required reading for technical SEOs working on AI search visibility, crawler access, structured content,…
When Google AI Ghosts the Experts Who Fed It
A Search Engine World take on the MediaPost report, what it says about AI Overviews, and why site owners should…
Opt-Out, Still Tracked: The Audit That Puts Google, Microsoft, and Meta Back Under the Microscope
A new independent privacy audit claims that opting out of tracking still does not reliably stop ad tech from doing…
Shocking: Meta Is Set to Pass Google in Digital Ads
Meta is projected to overtake Google in worldwide net digital ad revenue in 2026. EMARKETER pegs Meta at $243.46 billion…
