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Search Engine Land
This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday are Simchat Torah and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14th and October 15th.
Search Engine Roundtable
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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Search Engine Roundtable
An analysis of 800+ websites across 11 sectors reveals which domains AI assistants cite most and what it means for authority in the AI era.
Search Engine Land
The new global ad labeling could reshape how users see and interact with sponsored results, effecting CTR, on Google Search.
Search Engine Land
Lenny Rachitsky interviewed Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, who we cited here numerous times over the past couple of years.
The interview covers how AI is not replacing search, search is not [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google has published a new help document on the topic of Google Business Profile negative review extortion scams.
The document explains what they are, how to report the scam, what to expect and more [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google's VP of Product explains the three foundations of the next generation of search, a shift that signals changes for SEO.
Search Engine Journal
Google has officially launched the new grouped sponsored label in the search results. This is where Google groups multiple ads under one larger sponsored label, and then places a "hide" [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google quietly signals that NotebookLM will not obey the robots.txt protocol. This how to block it.
Search Engine Journal
Google is testing a new optimization insights layer or recommendation interface for Google Ads. This has three columns named (1) build a foundation, (2) drive performance and (3) expand and grow.
Search Engine Roundtable
There are a nice number of reports of GA4, Google Analytics, showing a huge surge in organic search traffic over the past couple of days, but Google Search Console is not showing any increase, it [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
This is Google's latest image generation technology from within Gemini - now available in Search.
Search Engine Land
Google's Lighthouse 13 replaces many legacy audits with insights aligned to Chrome DevTools, removes outdated checks, and keeps performance scoring unchanged.
Search Engine Journal
Google is bringing AI image editing with Nano Banana to Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
Inside Search