The stories about Ranking & Algorithms from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
The May 2026 Core Update was announced on 21st May 2026, following the March Core Update. It was completed on the 2nd June. Data, analysis, examples and rankings for affected domains are shown below…
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This is the second Google core update of 2026, following the March 2026 core update.
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Marks and Spencer, UK fashion and food chain, are beating their business partner Ocado at creating search visibility for the same food products. M&S aren’t selling those products but it feels like…
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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…
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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…
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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
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
A source cited in an AI response today may well have disappeared by next week. Our analysis of 82,619 prompts over 17 weeks shows that Google replaces 56% of sources in AI-generated responses every…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
SEO for technology companies is a specialized discipline focused on making JavaScript-heavy product sites, documentation, and complex software offerings fully […]
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
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.
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Assembled from our own archive of 1,107 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
