Name: Karma Search URL: https://www.karmasearch.org Index: Brave Search API – Bing Ads Karma Search is a search engine with a…
SEO’s Rejoice : Google Streamlines Account Switching Across Apps
For SEOs managing multiple Google properties, the daily non-stop friction of jumping between accounts: Search Console, Analytics, Business Profiles, Ads, etc. has been a long-standing annoyance. That friction is finally easing a bit.
Seznam.cz: Search Engine Overview
While Seznam.cz is the leading native search engine in the Czech Republic, it commands around 11–15% of the local search…
Publisher Alliance Says AI Mode Is Theft!
A growing number of major news organizations are accusing Google of crossing the line with its new AI Mode. What…
Google Dials Back to Defcon 4 – Sergey Even Showed Up
In Dec of 2022, Google CEO Sundar Pichai famously called a “code red” meeting. It moved Google to it’s…
AHREFS Study – Stunning New Report on AIO and AI Search Engines
..a must read comprehensive study analyzing 55.8m AIOs across 590m searches. The stunning report includes some sobering statistics for SEO’s. Top 50 domains get 30% of all AIO shoutouts…
New “Search” Report is Deeply Misleading – Search is NOT Up
A highly cited report came out earlier this week from BrightEdge. It even had it’s own press release (which should…
Fresh Doc Dump: PageRank, Navboost, and RankEmbed: DOJ Papers Outline Google’s Stack
Google’s own court-filed slide deck just spilled more tea on Navboost, and the details punch a few holes in years of SEO guesswork. The newly released trove goes further, mapping more than 100 raw signals into a ranking stew that still leans on old-school PageRank while layering in LLM toys like RankEmbed, re-ranking Twiddlers, and the rumored mysterious quality metric called Q*Star.
Qwant Search Engine Review
last updated 1/29/2026 Qwant is a French search engine launched in 2013 that positions itself as a privacy-focused alternative. It…
SEOs: The Unsung Heroes Behind Google’s Trillion-Dollar Success
Let’s be honest: SEOs have been doing Google’s dirty work for decades. We clean up the web. We format content…
Google Updates Logo – Goes Full Gradient Rainbow
In a move that some will surely see as political, Google went a more full rainbow gradient with their logo…
SEO’s Again Being Targeted by Google AdWords Phishing Ads
Heads Up! Attackers are at it again – purchasing Google Ads targeting keywords related to SEMrush (they also did this…
Avoiding the AI Tell: Editing Tricks That Make Your Content Shine
Cleaning your AI output. There are a ton of “rewriters” out there right now. Variations on the theme of “casual”,…
Googles Navboost – Serp Click Tracking is one of Googles Top Ranking Signals
“Giving traffic to publisher sites is kind of a necessary evil.” That quote from a former Google exec sets the tone. In this three-part series, we unpack NavBoost—Google’s behavior-driven ranking system that might influence more than PageRank ever did. From DOJ trial slides to buried log analyzers, this is the most important ranking revelation since PageRank. If you’re still optimizing for keywords and backlinks without thinking about user signals, you’re missing the biggest ranking factor no one is talking about.
“Bing Was Better Than I Thought” – What a Study on Search Engine Habits Really Tells Us
A new academic study has stirred up old debates about search engine loyalty and added fresh insight to the lethargic…
Google Held a Brunch for 7 Bloggers – Apparently Called it A “Summit”?
At first glance, Google throwing a summit for seven social media influencers sounds like a bad Onion headline.
Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy
The bad news keeps coming on this Friday for Google. $1.375 Billion Settlement with Google Related to Texans’ Data Privacy…
Googles 5 Options and How it Decided to Force Websites into AI Usage
Before Google trained on half the web anyway, it floated six opt-out tiers that would have let publishers throttle indexing,…