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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…
Google’s New Back Button Hijacking Policy Comes With a Very Convenient Blind Spot
Google has published a new spam policy targeting back button hijacking, calling it an explicit violation under its malicious practices…
Google Expands Personal Intelligence in Search
Google has expanded “Personal Intelligence” in the U.S. across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome.…
Google Expands Stitch Into a Full AI UI Design Workspace
They’re calling the new paradigm “vibe design” – which sounds more like marketing fluff (and it is) until you realize…
Google Introduces “Ask Maps” and Immersive Navigation
Google releases major update to its mapping platform that pushes the app further into AI navigation. The update introduces the…
WordPress Pushes Third Update in 24 Hours, Reaches Version 6.9.4
WordPress users woke up to a familiar dashboard notice again this morning. Another core update. In less than a day…
Amazon Blocks Perplexity’s Automated Shopping Bot
A US federal judge has issued an injunction blocking the AI startup Perplexity from running its automated shopping agent on…
Post Google “…it’s just Not a Meaningful Driver of our Traffic”
We’ve been saying since 2023 that Google will eventually get to a point where they no longer consider sending traffic…