Early Discover core update data shows fewer US publishers. Mueller says Google may skip sitemaps without "new and important" ...

Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content.

Google's February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data suggests fewer domains in top slots.

Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling behavior, and notes that HTML ...

Google is preparing to test search result changes in the EU that would show rival vertical search services alongside its own ...

Researchers test two ways to reverse engineer the LLM rankings of Claude 4, GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5, and Grok-3. Researchers ...

Survey data shows 49% of U.S. consumers have used TikTok for search, but Gen Z's TikTok-over-Google preference is dropping.

We're bringing the SEJ newsroom to a screen near you. On March 11 from 12–3pm ET, we've gathered our own search experts, ...

The future of social media is being shaped less by new platforms and more by shifting behavior, fragmentation, and ...

Anthropic updated its crawler documentation to list separate Claude bots for training, search indexing, and user requests, ...

Google removes AI Overviews for query types where users don't click or find value. The system issues additional "under the hood" searches to find relevant content that might not match exact keywords.

Early third-party tracking data offers a first look at how Google's February Discover core update is changing what users see in their feeds.