Google May Have To Share Search Data With Rivals
The European Commission proposed Google share data with rival search engines and qualifying AI chatbots in the EU/EEA.
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Google Lists Best Practices For Read More Deep Links
Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of “Read more” deep links appearing.
AI Adoption Outpaced The PC & Internet: Dive Into The Stanford Report Data
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index covers 400+ pages of data. Here’s what search professionals should take from the adoption numbers, reliability gaps, and transparency decline.
Google Bans Back Button Hijacking, Agentic Search Grows – SEO Pulse
Google targets back button hijacking as a spam violation, says spam reports may trigger manual actions, and expands agentic restaurant booking to more markets.
Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing
Google is updating AI Mode in Chrome with side-by-side page viewing and a plus menu for adding tabs, images, and files as context.
ChatGPT Often Retrieves But Rarely Cites Reddit Pages, Data Shows
New Ahrefs data shows Reddit pages appeared often in ChatGPT retrievals but rarely as visible citations.
Gen Z Workers Pick Human-Only Output Over AI-Assisted
Gen Z workers surveyed by Gallup said they would trust work done without AI over AI-assisted output by more than 2-to-1, with the gap widening.
Search Ad Growth Slows As Social & Video Gain Faster
IAB’s annual report shows search ad growth fell while social media and digital video posted stronger year-over-year gains.
Google Chrome Skills Turn Gemini Prompts Into Reusable Workflows
Google is rolling out Skills to Gemini in Chrome on desktop, letting users save prompts as reusable one-click tools and run them across selected tabs.
New Google Spam Policy Targets Back Button Hijacking
Google added back button hijacking to its malicious practices spam policy. Enforcement starts June 15, 2026. Sites have two months to remove offending code.
What Pichai’s Interview Reveals About Google’s Search Direction
Sundar Pichai outlines search as an “agent manager,” signaling a shift from link-based results to task completion and multi-step workflows.
Core Update Done, GSC Bug Fixed, Mueller On Gurus – SEO Pulse
Google’s March core update finished rolling out. A Search Console bug inflated impressions for nearly a year. Pichai warns AI will break software security.
Google March Core Update Left 4 Losers For Every Winner In Germany
SISTRIX analyzed German search results after the March core update and found uneven visibility shifts across categories, with some site types hit harder than others.
What 400 Sites Reveal About Organic Traffic Gains
An analysis of 400+ websites found five characteristics associated with estimated organic traffic gains.
OpenAI, Meta, ByteDance Lead AI Bot Traffic In Publishing
Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.
Google Confirms March 2026 Core Update Is Complete
Google’s March core update finished rolling out. Here’s what to know about the rollout and when to check your data.
Google CEO Says AI Could ‘Break Pretty Much All Software’
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI models could expose more software vulnerabilities and agreed it was plausible AI is affecting zero-day exploit markets.
Trust In AI Search Could Drop With Ads, Survey Shows
An Ipsos survey of U.S. adults found 63% say ads in AI search results would reduce trust. Early advertiser data offers limited, mixed signals.
ChatGPT Search Is Citing Fewer Sites, Data Shows
ChatGPT Search is citing fewer websites per response after GPT-5.3 Instant became the default experience.
Google Core Update, Crawl Limits & Gemini Traffic Data – SEO Pulse
Google’s March core update is rolling out. Illyes explains Googlebot’s crawling architecture, and Gemini referral traffic doubles.
AI Leads All Reasons For U.S. Job Cuts In March, Report Says
AI led all cited reasons for U.S. job cuts in March at 25% of the total, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Google Explains Googlebot Byte Limits And Crawling Architecture
Google’s Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, with new byte-level details.
Google: Pages Are Getting Larger & It Still Matters
Google’s Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is adding bloat to web pages.
New AI Jobs Index Ranks 784 Occupations By Loss Risk
Tufts index projects 9M U.S. jobs at risk from AI. Writers and Authors, Computer Programmers, and Web and Digital Interface Designers top the risk list.
Google Gemini Sends More Traffic To Sites Than Perplexity: Report
Google Gemini more than doubled its referral traffic to websites in two months while ChatGPT declined from its peak, SE Ranking data shows.
Google Tests AI Headlines, Rolls Out Spam Update – SEO Pulse
Google tests AI headline rewrites in Search, completes the March spam update in under 20 hours, and adds AI content labeling to structured data docs.
Google Begins Rolling Out March 2026 Core Update
Google has started rolling out the March 2026 core update. The rollout may take up to two weeks to complete.
Google Takes Search Live Global With Gemini 3.1 Flash Live
Google expands Search Live to 200+ countries, powered by its new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model with multilingual voice and camera search in AI Mode.
Google Adds AI & Bot Labels To Forum, Q&A Structured Data
Google updated its Discussion Forum and Q&A Page structured data docs with new properties, including a way to label AI- and machine-generated content.
Google’s March 2026 Spam Update Is Already Complete
Google has finished rolling out the March 2026 spam update. The update applies globally and to all languages, with rollout taking a few days.