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Digital Content Next, a trade body representing US digital publishers, has sent a cease and desist letter to the Common Crawl Foundation. The letter demands Common Crawl stop collecting publisher content and remove material already in its datasets. DCN CEO Jason Kint announced the legal notice in a blog post, and Press Gazette reported additional […]
Some websites can now opt out of Google’s AI search features without losing their place in standard search results. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority imposed a conduct requirement this week, and Google began testing its own Search Console toggle the same day. The real question is whether there’s enough information to make a decision. […]
Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how you measure AI search visibility, whether you can opt out of it, and how the completed core update reshaped rankings. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Adds AI Search Controls And Reports To Search Console Google is testing two new Search Console features for […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has imposed a new conduct requirement on Google Search that will let publishers opt out of having their content used in AI search features. The requirement follows the CMA’s decision to designate Google with strategic market status in general search. It sits under the UK’s digital markets competition regime, […]
At Google I/O last month, the SEO industry waited for Google to launch AI Mode to the masses, and the fatalist viewpoint that it will end SEO. For the past couple of years, AI has been moving search through a structural shift. Every software tool is embedding generative AI as a new product feature for […]
In a recent interview, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed that sources and links will always be a part of the AI answers and when asked how he feels about a decline in the use of Classic Search in favor of AI Search, he mentioned that Google will survive on a blend of subscriptions and advertising. […]
Google is beginning to test two new Search Console features. One is a toggle that lets you control whether your site appears in generative AI Search features. The other is dedicated performance reports showing when URLs from a site appear in generative AI features across Search and Discover. Both features are rolling out to a […]
Microsoft announced Web IQ, a set of grounding APIs that let AI agents pull information from Bing’s search index. The company calls Web IQ “a search engine for AI systems.” Where Bing helps people find web pages, Web IQ helps AI agents find information they can use while reasoning through a task. See also: where […]
AI systems are now answering questions about your business. The problem is that they are often getting it wrong. Consider the typical situation. A brand’s products, services, expertise, locations, leadership, and relationships are distributed across dozens of pages. An AI model retrieves fragments from those pages, stitches them together probabilistically, and generates an answer. The […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said Google has spent 25 years learning how to measure user satisfaction in Search, including engagement, sessions, return behavior, and bounce-backs, saying that those metrics help Google improve AI Search. When asked about the concept of Google Search traffic dwindling to zero, the Google Zero scenario, Pichai insisted that the reality […]