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European Search Strategy Goes Beyond Google & Bing

Treat Europe as one Google market, and you'll miss Seznam, Ecosia, Zalando, and a regulatory layer that can close a…

2 months ago

How Perplexity Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Stream, Not The Answers)

Perplexity never skips the web, so every query is winnable. Here's what its live answer stream reveals about citations, video,…

2 months ago

Google’s Open Knowledge Format Adds Five Trust Signals

Google announced version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format, introducing five new trust signals. The post Google’s Open Knowledge Format…

2 months ago

Google’s Mueller: Fix Conflicting Metadata, Don’t Test It

Google's John Mueller says if sites are serving conflicting metadata, they should fix the conflict, not test which source wins.…

2 months ago

AI Opt-Out May Cost Sites A Google Top Stories Spot

Google is putting Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews, raising the stakes on its new AI opt-out setting in Search…

2 months ago

The Future Of Search & AI: What I Learned From Google’s Latest Earnings Call

Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should…

2 months ago

Google Search Results Still Rank Heavily AI-Flagged Pages

Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google's index, though heavily flagged pages…

2 months ago

Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back

Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn't returned. Here's what a year of auction…

2 months ago

Google SEO Test Shows What Happens In 5-Second Rendering Window

A new SEO test shows what happens when Google's Web Rendering Service continues past five seconds: Google pauses time with…

2 months ago

Indexed Claude Chats Show Why Disallow Is Not Noindex

Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt…

2 months ago