Google has announced another round of so called “clarity updates” (ya, that’s the ticket) for search ads. This time, the…
UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Designate Google as having Strategic Market Status
UK targets Google Search Power Today the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) formally designated Google with Strategic Market Status…
Microsoft Shares Exact Signals AI Uses to Choose Content for Search Answers Optimization
Microsoft posted new recommendations to help website owners and marketers make their content more eligible for inclusion in AI-generated answers…
Google Adsense Death of “Ad Networks” and Birth of “Authorized Buyers”
Google announces a significant change to its AdSense “Brand Safety > Blocking controls” interface: the “Ad networks” blocking control will…
Microsoft Introduces the New Bing Places for Business
On October 3, 2025, Microsoft launched a revamped Bing Places for Business experience, designed to be easier, smarter, and more…
Google Begins Locking People out of Services Because of Age
Numerous threads running on the socials about Google locking down peoples accounts. Most feel this is related to the age…
OpenAi introduces Instant Checkout in ChatGPT to Buy In Chat
OpenAI introduced Instant Checkout, that allows users to buy products directly inside ChatGPT. The feature is rolling out to U.S.…
Bye Bye, Google AI Updated : Turn off Google AI Overviews, Discussions and Ads
The classic Bye Bye Google Chrome extension was updated recently and is now working again. This extension lets users filter…
OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Pulse “Morning Briefing” for Pro Subscribers
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pulse: “Pro users can access ChatGPT pulse on iOS and Android. Pulse is not available on web…
Cloudflare Enters the Robots.txt Fray with a “Content Signals Policy” for AI bots
Cloudflare just introduced a new way to tell bots what they can do with your content after they fetch it.…
New in Labs: Mixboard a “Concepting Board”
Google Labs has rolled out Mixboard, a new experiment aimed at turning brainstorming into a more an interactive process. It…
Google Burns Rainbow G Logo into Everything
Google updated the Google logo back in May, and now is going all-in on the G. – Google Blog This…
Microsoft is preparing to launch a Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM)
Microsoft is preparing to launch a Publisher Content Marketplace (PCM) that could change how publishers are paid when their work…
Fan-Out Technique: More Than “Optimizing for AI”
LLM-based platforms generate AI answers by running several queries across their training data. If they don’t have enough confidence in…
Ganja Google! Google Lets Cannabis Ads in Through the Back Door
So like, Google just decided to chill and let some cannabis ads run, but only in Canada, man. Twenty weeks…
Top Traffic & Logging Services Not Named Google Analytics
Last Updated Jan 8 2026 Why this matters in 2026 Traffic analysis is no longer about pageviews alone. AI agents,…
Google Adds Gemini Button To Chrome
Google just rolled Gemini AI into Chrome for US desktop users. This isn’t just another browser update. It’s a shift…
New Study out – How People Use ChatGPT
OpenAI released a major study (in the form of an NBER working paper) titled “How People Use ChatGPT”, based on…
OpenAI updates ChatGPT5 With New Search Improvements and New Codex
September 16 – Search in ChatGPT ChatGPT/SearchGPT results are now more factual with fewer hallucinations, better at detecting search intent,…
PubMatic Sues Google over Illegal Ad Monopoly
In an action last week, independent ad-tech firm PubMatic filed an antitrust lawsuit alleging Google illegally monopolized parts of the…
Google Removes Ublock Origin Ad Blocker – Again
Googles ongoing war against Ad blockers reached a milestone last week, with Google removing Ublock Origin ad blocker. Ublock Origin…
Penske Media Files Suit Against Google Over AI overviews
Penske Media (owners of Rolling Stone, Billboard, Variety, etc.) filed a lawsuit against Google in federal court in Washington, D.C.…
TikTok Says its Search Engine Rivals Google With GenZ
TikTok – the new player in Search as 86% of GenZ search on TikTok weekly.
The Big Eight: A New Era of LLM Giants
The Big Eight, a diverse and powerful group of large language models (LLMs), now stand as the new pillars of…
Exploring AdSense Alternatives: A Guide for Site Owners Looking to Maximize Revenue
updated: 5-14-2026 Beyond Google: Exploring AdSense Alternatives for Website Monetization Awhile back, a user on WebmasterWorld asked a simple question:…
The Secret Search Engine Powering a Major AI (Hint: It’s Not Google or Bing)
Brave Search has carved out a place in the secondary search market as a privacy-first engine with its own independent…
AI Mode To Replace Google Search? Not So Fast Says Googler
Logan Kilpatrick “Lead product for @GoogleAIStudio + the Gemini API” – Googler says that he wasn’t saying AI mode is…
Introducing the RSL Standard: A New Licensing Layer for an AI-First Web
For years, SEOs and site owners have had to set by and watch their content get scraped, trained on, and…
DeepSeek’s Real Time Google Search is a Game Changer For SEOs to Analyze Google SERPs
Fascinating SEO fact : DeepSeek Chatbot will real-time do a search on Google and report back findings. This opens up all sorts of new SEO opportunities to analyze Google Serps. It is like having your own proxy to search Google.