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Read on SearchPilot →Nearly two years since a judge ruled Google an illegal monopolist. Total changes Google has had to make so far: zero. That's what getting away with it looks like. The SEARCH Act can end it now.
Read on DuckDuckGo →I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified their pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the…
Read on Marie Haynes →BAT Roadmap 4.0 evolves the Basic Attention Token, Brave Rewards, and Brave Creators for the transactional attention economy, introducing agentic payments, a unified Brave Wallet, the BravePay…
Read on Brave Search →DuckDuckGo now blocks most video ads! Use our free browser to get the full YouTube experience, minus the ads. YouTube Ad Blocking joins our powerful lineup of browsing protections that manage cookie…
Read on DuckDuckGo →Brave's improved Place Search API matches Google Maps on quality in real-world tests, at 6–7x lower cost—$5 per 1,000 requests on an independent index built for maps, apps, and AI agents.
Read on Brave Search →Content creators and publishers use many channels beyond their own websites to reach their audiences. As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives and different content formats, we want to make…
Read on Google Search Central →We're excited to officially announce the next stop for Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026! Mark your calendars: based directly on your feedback, we're headed to Barcelona, Spain, from…
Read on Google Search Central →Today's Brave browser release (v1.92) adds built-in Containers on desktop, letting you isolate tabs so cookies and storage aren't shared—making it easy to manage multiple accounts or separate work…
Read on Brave Search →In this post we dive deep into how to configure the Cowork desktop application with AWS Bedrock, and how to add Brave Search as the local MCP server for interactive, user-driven workflows.
Read on Brave Search →This spam update took two full days to roll out.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Standardizing knowledge for the future of AI agents My last piece on Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) was one of the most popular I’ve ever published. Since then, I have been heads down working…
Read on Marie Haynes →В инструменте «Мониторинг запросов» в Яндекс Вебмастере теперь можно оперативнее оценивать динамику сайта — данные по запросам, показам и кликам появляются значительно быстрее.Что изменилось?Раньше…
Read on Yandex Webmaster (RU) →This update should only take a few days to roll out.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →If you work in digital marketing your inbox is likely to be littered with news on the latest AI visibility trackers. With so many solutions on the market it can leave you with a difficult decision,…
Read on Sistrix →How startups, digital goliaths, and everything in-between, use AI to grow online.
Read on Detailed →As we mentioned a few months ago, we are bringing the Search Central Live Deep Dive format to the EMEA region. This SCL format requires finding the absolute best home for the event—a place…
Read on Google Search Central →Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools introduces four expanded AI performance capabilites in preview: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare, enhancing publishers' understanding of AI-generated…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Bing Search Blog →Google just published documentation on what they're calling the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It represents a standardized way for agents to access knowledge via very simple directories of Markdown…
Read on Marie Haynes →Your content can rank on the first page of Google and still never be cited or mentioned by LLMs. This makes sense once you understand query fan-out, a background process AI systems use to build…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Read on Backlinko →Tracking your performance in Google’s AI Overviews & AI Mode Google is giving us brand new information within our Google Search Consoles to tell us how our content is being used in AI Overviews, AI…
Measurement AI Search & Visibility
Read on Marie Haynes →Alongside a possibly related announcement from Google comes a Google Search Publisher Conduct Requirement from the UK Competition and Markets Authority. Google’s strategic market status means it must…
Read on Sistrix →AI applications are only as good as the information they reason from. Without fresh, high-quality web data, they are less dependable. Today, Microsoft is launching Web IQ: a suite of AI-native…
Read on Bing Search Blog →The second Google core update of 2026 was a big one, causing a lot of search ranking volatility over the rollout.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Google just shared more information to help us get our websites ready for agents. There is a new report from Lighthouse which anybody can run. You do not need external software to run it. You can do…
Read on Marie Haynes →Today, we’re introducing an evolution of Bing Image Search– a unique AI-guided experience that organizes results to reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed, making it easier to find what you’re…
Read on Bing Search Blog →This is the second Google core update of 2026, following the March 2026 core update.
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On…
Read on VentureBeat AI →We’re delighted to announce Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 24.0, codenamed internally as ‘bolus’. In this release we have introduced a number of much demanded new features, as well as smaller…
Read on Screaming Frog →Представьте: потенциальный клиент ищет услугу или товар — и прямо в результатах Поиска видит высокий рейтинг вашего сайта и свежие отзывы. В таком случае вероятность перехода на ваш сайт выше.С новым…
Read on Yandex Webmaster (RU) →In an AI-powered search world, visibility is responsibility. Bing is rethinking search with safety by design at its core—combining risk detection, trusted content prioritization, and user controls to…
Read on Bing Search Blog →A Google spam update targets manipulative content, links, and behaviors that violate Search Essentials. Learn how spam updates work, how to tell if you were hit, and how to recover.
Ranking & Algorithms Policy & Penalties
Read on SEL — Algorithm Updates →Search indexing was built to help humans decide what to read. Grounding is being built to help AI systems decide what to say and simultaneously helping people to verify, refine, or challenge what the…
Ranking & Algorithms Crawling & Indexing AI Search & Visibility
Read on Bing Search Blog →Мы знаем, как важно для вебмастеров, SEO-специалистов и маркетологов экономить время на рутинных задачах и минимизировать риск ошибок при редактировании кода сайта. Теперь вам не нужно запрашивать…
Read on Yandex Webmaster (RU) →We’re delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 7.0. If you’re not already familiar with the Log File Analyser, it allows you to upload raw server log files, verify…
Read on Screaming Frog →We’ve packed our bags, triple-checked the weather forecast (don’t want to jinx it, but it’s looking 👌), and we’re getting ready to crawl our way down to the coast. The Screaming Frog team is…
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