A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 1,106 stories.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
This past Saturday, October 24th, we saw some significant ranking volatility captured by many of the third-party Google tracking tools. There was also some heavy chatter within the SEO industry about…
Ranking & Algorithms
From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.
Google reminds sites to use 503s during PHP patch downtime. Other updates cover robots.txt controls, bracket URLs, and JPEG XL in Google Images and Discover.
Crawling & Indexing
Google seems to be testing or rolling out AI-generated summaries within AI Overviews citation cards. So the cards on the right (or bottom) of the AI Overviews within Google Search can now show AI…
Content & Quality AI Search & Visibility
An AI search strategy starts with diagnosis. Rewriting content won‘t help if AI can‘t reach your site or keeps describing your brand wrong.
Ranking & Algorithms
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Patch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.
Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.
We took a look at Google Trends to see what people in seven major fashion capitals are searching for to give them that je ne sais quoi when it comes to their sartorial s…
The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.
Content & Quality
OpenAI will cut frontier models off from the internet weeks after one of its engineers said that solution wouldn't work.
The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a "nap," and summersaulted on voice command.
Local SEO
Assembled from our own archive of 1,106 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.
