And so it comes to pass: www.searchengineworld.com/google-adds-...

Wait one fifth of the online chatter about cracker barrel were bots??? According to this study, yup.

UnSpeakable: The eroding ethics in the professional speaking industry.

86% of Gen Z use TikTok weekly for search. www.searchengineworld.com/tiktok-says-...

Interesting. What ya'll think of #6? ahrefs.com/blog/most-ci...

Great article by Marth van Berkel www.searchenginejournal.com/structured-d...

Google to cut price of Gemini in certain markets: www.androidpolice.com/google-gemin...

AdWords again... medium.com/@eslam.elsew...

@seosavvyagent.com Yo, you ever update this killer of an article? searchengineland.com/schema-marku...

Judge Tosses Anthropics 1.5b settlement. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...

Fun SEO: Use DeepSeek to analyze Google Serps: www.searchengineworld.com/using-deepse...

Race conditions have been met: "Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AI "https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/

"...personal information and documents, including their IDs, were also nabbed in the leak ... intimate videos of the two having sex were stolen by cybercriminals and stayed online for 18 months" www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-n...

Nice find by Danny over on sel: searchengineland.com/chatgpt-ai-t...

Ganja on Google - www.searchengineworld.com/google-lets-...

anyone else getting hammered by microsoft to prove you are a human? Getting this like once an hour:

Word is - SerpAPI has not been blocked from any of it's IP's. Google can easily fingerprint Serps to track it down - if they wanted too.

The Intrigue continues : www.searchengineworld.com/we-have-a-ne...

Trying to find a replacement for GA4? So is everybody. I did the leg work: www.searchengineworld.com/top-traffic-...

Agents are coming for your website. Are you ready? www.searchengineworld.com/all-aboard-f...

New study shows most publisher traffic down 25 to 65% digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2025/08...

Pure gold here: ahrefs.com/blog/the-gre...

Kiplinger study shows AIO wrong 57% of the time about life insurance: www.kiplinger.com/personal-fin...

GPT5 - here we go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_...

Google starts spamming with Popups now on serps:

Is today the day? www.searchengineworld.com/do-we-get-gp...

SOT (Slop On Top) goes to town again: www.theverge.com/health/71804... Laugh, cry, fist-to-disk, or just stare an snicker?

Cloudflare says Perplexity is ignoring robots.txt and crawling sites using stock user agents. Anyone who's been watching server logs already knew this was happening. Robots.txt was never a legal boundary or a real deterrent. www.searchengineworld.com/cloudflare-s... #SEO #SearchEngineWorld

Have you checked how your business appears in ChatGPT yet? They are ramping up the map in prep for ChatGPT 5 - crawling now! If you're running a locally focused business, this is a major opportunity to get on the map! www.searchengineworld.com/getting-your... #ChatGPT #LocalSearch #GEO #AIO #SEO

Sitemaps are back! Bing's latest announcement re-emphasizes their importance in the era of AI-driven search. Traditional crawling is giving way to a more selective, signal-based approach... www.searchengineworld.com/bing-says-si... #SEO #Bing #Sitemaps

It is one of the most influential databases on the web and most have never even heard of it, let alone understand how it impacts a sites marketing. (psst This is how some of your Google bits are showing in ChatGPT) www.searchengineworld.com/who-what-whe... #SEO #CommonCrawl #Google #ChatGPT

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The AIO/SGE update to Google is arguably the biggest update in Google history. So I am searching for a name that we might all agree on: The Great Click Collapse SERPgeddon Project NoClick Cannibal Blue Link Requiem Click Thief Core Update Dead SERP Scrolls Organic Obituary anyone else?

New Pew Research Seals it: When Google shows an AI Overview, click-through rates crash by nearly 50%. This is zero-click search, at scale. www.searchengineworld.com/pew-data-con... #SEO #SearchMarketing #AIOverviews #ZeroClick #SearchEngineWorld #CTR

Me: How'd you come out on the update? 25yr SEO Vet: There was an update?

AI-driven search is dicing queries into multiple sub-questions, nicknamed "query fan-out". It's not just about optimizing for AI snippets anymore. Details in this great post by Ann Smarty @seosmarty.bsky.social www.searchengineworld.com/fan-out-tech... #SEO #AIsearch #QueryFanOut #backlinks

ahrefs.com/blog/search-... While the article confirms - well duh - the top rankings make up aio, I am most curious about what/where those 14.40% "other" results are from? That is so unGoogly moogly.

“SEO is dead” has become a strawman argument being used to dunk on ghosts. The real question is whether search itself is mutating past the metrics we’ve relied on. I'm thinking: not a reboot - just a reset. Remember: The secret to happiness is lowered expectations (eg: traffic expectations)

I've yet to see a 'killer app' out of an AI browser. So far, they have been doing nothing worth the learning curve. #verge #perplexity www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

3 SEO vets were let go this week from inhouse gigs (one had the entire dept let go). Let me know if you are hiring.

Live and searchable. Instagram showing on Google. With Googles love affair with Youtube in results, is this a *seo* thing, or is a a *no* thing? I dig into it here: www.searchengineworld.com/its-live-ins... #seo #google #instagram #reels #youtube #shorts

General tech reporters just don't understand that open source Chromium project is run by Googlers - And that any derivative - including Microsoft Edge, Perplexity, Brave, Vivaldi, DuckDuckGo, Opera, Arc, and even Yandex are based on that code.

Google salaries revealed: how much the search giant pays software engineers and other key roles amid the AI boom www.businessinsider.com/google-salar...

When we talk about "spam sites created at scale to game search engines" this is the kind of scale we are talking about: pressgazette.co.uk/news/french-...

Battery issues? Instagrams fault? www.androidauthority.com/google-insta...