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Google warns of "new reality" amid search struggles, accelerates timelines, while critics allege prioritizing revenue over quality. Search Engine Journal
Google's Infini-attention is a plug and play technology that can be added to existing models, including core algorithm systems Search Engine Journal
The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 - this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in unhelpful content. Search Engine Land
Optimizing title tags is vital for boosting your visibility in Google's SERPs. But you don't have to worry about character limits. Here's why. Search Engine Land
Google completed major March 2024 core update a week before announcing, keeping websites in the dark. Search Engine Journal
New AI creative assistant doesn't generate content. It democratizes high quality writing. Comes in free and modestly priced versions. Search Engine Journal
Google is testing placing the date in the snippet on the same line as the URL in the snippet. This is instead of placing it before the snippet's description section. Search Engine Roundtable
The Google March 2024 core update finished a week ago and Google did not tell us until today. It finished officially on April 19, 2024, and took 45 days to roll out after starting on March 5, 2024. [...] Search Engine Roundtable
For the third time, Google has postponed the anticipated deprecation of third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Search Engine Land
Alphabet's Q1 revenue up 15%, driven by Search and YouTube shine. Google reshuffles AI teams for "Gemini era" integration. Search Engine Journal
Google updated their Googlebot and Crawler documentation to add a second list of IP addresses Search Engine Journal
A Google podcast highlights the potential for factual errors in AI-generated content, stressing human oversight is critical. Search Engine Journal
Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how [...] Search Engine Roundtable
Over the past few days, while I was offline, the SEO chatter around the Google search ranking volatility continued to be super heated. The Google tracking tools seemed to calm down a bit, but the [...] Search Engine Roundtable