Google will no longer apply manual actions under its site reputation abuse policy to searchers in the European Economic Area, following discussions with the European Commission under the DMA.
OpenAI has permanently pinned a Shopping tab to the ChatGPT sidebar, creating a dedicated product discovery experience with visual search capabilities.
Google is adding cross-platform memory to Ask Advisor, allowing the AI assistant to carry context across Google Ads, Analytics, Merchant Center, and Marketing Platform.
Google's new Expert Intelligence initiative lets users query 100,000+ publisher books in Gemini Notebook, with plans to expand to AI Mode in Search.
The IRS website experienced a significant drop in Google Search visibility over the past several days, with SEO professionals observing that the site lost rankings for high-traffic tax-related queries and its favicon disappeared from search results.
A step-by-step workflow for turning a "best X" or comparison page into a page AI answers cite: run a mismatch check, read which of three diagnosis scenarios you are in, fix it, and re-run until your brand appears.
Your highest-earning "best X" listicle is usually the page that does the most for competitors: AI retrieves your list and names the brands written inside it. Here is the mechanism, with real SERP and AI-answer evidence, and how to rebuild the page.
Google announced three new travel features in AI Mode: hotel booking via Google Pay, flight price tracking with email alerts, and points/miles rate viewing from loyalty partners.
Programmatic SEO is not dead — its job changed. The pages that used to win ten thousand small clicks now compete to be the one source an AI assistant cites. Here is the decision framework for whether, and how, to keep building.
Most AI search demand shows up in Google Search Console months before it becomes a high-volume keyword — as small, rising, zero-click queries. Here is a 30-minute workflow to find them and turn them into pages AI actually cites.