According to numerous reports, Google has started requiring users to turn on javascript to search. It is widely regarded as…
Bing Turns up “Google” Search to Eleven
Log out of Bing/Microsoft and do a search for Google. Bing has expanded their old ‘Google’ search to a new…
Google Testing Complete Serp Takeover With New Ai Layout
According to several, reports, Google is testing replacing the traditional Serp with a 100% AI take over. While the Verge…
Google Responds on DOJ’s Monopoly Breakup Proposal
Google is pushing back against the US Department of Justice, which wants to break up the company by forcing it…
“I’ll Rank My Site by Fixing Core Web Vitals,” Said No SEO Ever
By Jason Poser and Jason Kilgore: The world of SEO is filled with shifting trends; back in the day Matt…
Google to Site Owners : Your Website – Our Choice
We’ve seen alot of questionable behavior out of Google the last couple years, from trying to CoOpt the entire web…
The Proposed Final Judgment – DOJ Wants Google to Effectively Publish the Algo
While the main stream tech press has put the focus on Google divesting of Chrome, there was much more in…
Stopping Google AI – The Great Google Cleaner! ?udm=14 and -AI = So Nice
(added: also try swearing at Google to turn off AI Overviews) -AI Lets start with the easy one, by simply…
Gemini Gets a Memory
Gemini plus subscribers can tell Gemini to remember this and it will. This should help with having to copy prompts…
DOJ Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome
According to Bloomberg, the DOJ is set to ask Google to sell off Chrome. The department will ask the judge,…
Google Gemini Freaks Out and Goes Full On Sky Net – Telling User to Die Human!
CBS news is reporting that a 29 year old received threatening messages from Google Gemini. “This is for you, human.…
SEO Meme of the Month
In an otherwise slow Search Engine News week (from Chaz Hutton) h/t Tracy Ingram
SearchGPT or ChatGPT Search is Not Necc a Direct Competitor to Google
I have been gnashing my teeth at the main stream tech press since SearchGPT was bolted on to ChatGPT. The main…
Google Pushes out Algo Rankings Update
Google has had a long history of messing around with the status quo near the Christmas shopping season. This year…
Google’s testing a real time update for SERPs in conversational search
Currently in desktop search if you ask “where is the Eiffel tower”, it will do a normal search. Then if you ask a followup “when was it built”, it will jump to something like your house and that’s the end of that conversation. Where in the new test, it understands that you are asking about when the Eiffel tower was built.
12 Essential Files SEOs Should Run Through ChatGPT for an SEO Tune-Up
LLM’s like Claude and ChatGPT are very good at SEO related information – it is like the new SEO super…
Top AI Video Generators – Rich Media SEO Content Revolution Continues
SEO’s are always looking for fresh content sources to flush out offerings. Video has been easy but time consuming. Afterall,…
How to Add SearchGPT as Default Engine in your browser
To set SearchGPT as your default search engine in Opera, Chrome, Vivaldi, or Edge: Chrome Use the SearchGPT Extension: Visit…
Google Maps The Latest to Pass 2 Billion Monthly Users – Gets Gemini
On the Alphabet Q3 quarterly report, Google shared that Google Maps had passed 2 billion monthly users. It joins Search,…
Gemini Data, Inc. Sues Google for Trademark Infringement and USPTO Rejects GEMINI Trademark Applications
Google is finding itself i a bit of a row with Gemini Data Inc. with the US PAtent and Trademark…
Google Goes ALL IN on AI Generated Code -Q3 Results Report
Google announced in its q3 earnings call “Today, more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers.”
Social Media Users Band Together to Manipulate Google Reviews
Disgruntled foodies were ticked off that their favorite restaurants were over run with tourists. So they turned to social media…
Google AI Search Hits Up to 100 Countries
While users in the US have been baking in AI for some time now, much of the rest of the…
OpEd: Google Wins if the Justice Department Nixes the Apple Default Search Engine Agreement
We continue to read reporting claiming that the Justice Department will block Google’s deal with Apple to be the default…
Google Open-Sourced its “SynthID” AI Text Detection Tool
Google is releasing its SynthID AI text and water marking tool. They say that the watermarks in generated text are…
Google Kills More SERP Links – This Time Sitelink SearchBox
In a significant shift, Google has announced that it will be removing the “sitelinks” searchbox feature from its search engine…
Nick Fox now in Charge of Search and advertising at Google
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, announced a leadership shift: Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Google’s search and ads, will step down…
Is Google Using Users Chrome Data for Search Rankings?
Cindy Krum discusses Google’s manipulation of search and data collection through Chrome, revealing how this affects SEO and user privacy.…