We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots ...

An actionable guide for small business owners on three powerful, free ways to boost their Google Maps ranking and local ...

We probably won’t see chunking go away as long as publishers can point to a positive effect. However, Google seems to feel ...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

A Google core update is a comprehensive algorithm adjustment that affects how Google evaluates and ranks content across billions of web pages worldwide. When these updates roll out, they can trigger ...

Google used to rank content based on keyword matching and PageRank was a way to extend that paradigm using the anchor text of ...

Google's Robby Stein explains why AI Overviews appear for some searches but not others, describing an engagement-based system ...

The recurring problems with AI Overviews stem from a design flaw in how the system works. As we reported in May 2024, Google ...

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Google recently unveiled its Preferred Sources tool, meaning you now get to choose which news outlets you see first in search ...

Ads in AI Overviews are already performing at "about the same rate" as traditional search ads, according to Google's VP of global ads, Dan Taylor.