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Google begins experimenting with Audio Overviews in search results. US searchers can opt in to the experiment via Search Labs.
Google retires seven structured data features including Book Actions, Course Info, and Claim Review to streamline search results. Rankings unaffected.
Google’s CEO addressed concerns about AI search replacing traditional web links in its ongoing evolution of Search
Google confirms Lens, Discover, and Voice Search are experiencing disruptions, potentially affecting traffic for many sites.
Why Google’s SEO advice often sounds vague: Search Relations team explains the reasons behind “it depends” answers.
Google removes robots.txt guidance for blocking auto-translated pages. This change aligns Google’s technical documents with its spam policies.
Google voluntary buyouts target U.S. Search and Ads staff amid AI restructuring. What does this mean for future layoffs and team priorities?
YouTube is now showing Posts in the Shorts feed, giving creators a new way to expand their reach.
Google’s John Mueller showed how to diagnose a search visibility issue that was apparently triggered by a domain migration.
Google rolls out support for loyalty program structured data, which allows businesses to display member benefits in search results.
Google responds to a publisher’s concern about crawl budget and rankings due to Googlebot’s requests for non-existent pages
WordPress co-founder cautioned that the FAIR project’s distributed plugin and theme repositories could undermine WordPress.org’s ability to manage trust and reliability
Google confirms that Recipe Rich Results and text search results select images using different criteria.
New data shows that AI search traffic overwhelmingly comes from desktop devices rather than mobile.
A respected SEO expert calls out marketers who overstate the complexity of Google’s AI search
New security platform announced by Patchstack enables plugin developers to maintain a proactive security approach against vulnerabilities
Google AI Mode adds interactive charts for financial searches. See how this data visualization may affect SEO and content marketing strategies.
WordPress plans to support AI agents and publishers by exposing tools, content, and interactivity to external systems.
Google reveals details behind the development of AI Mode. Learn design insights and what marketers need to know.
With 30+ updates from GML 2025, Google Ads is going full AI. Here’s what actually matters for campaign performance and planning.
Google has published official guidance on how to recover a website that is incorrectly filtered by the SafeSearch filter
Microsoft Clarity announced a Node.js-based MCP Server that enables natural language querying of analytics via AI
New study: Google AI Overviews cite news sources in only 1 in 5 responses. BBC, NYT & CNN lead with 31% share.
Anthropic published the hidden system prompts underlying the Claude AI model, showing how to get the best responses from it.
Recent Google patent shows how five kinds of real-world context can influence AI-generated answers
Bluehost introduces managed WordPress hosting plans with AI-assisted tools that make launching online stores easier for entrepreneurs and content creators.
Two Google employees are helping lead WordPress’s new AI Team, which is focused on integrating AI through canonical plugins first
An SEO expert’s experiments indicate that Google Search Console might not report a significant portion of search queries. More comprehensive research is needed.
WordPress development has resumed after a four-month pause, following years of lagging behind market trends and technological innovation
Google Lens integration brings visual search to YouTube Shorts. Here’s how it works, along with important rules marketers need to know.
