Alphabet reported Q2 2026 earnings with Google Search & other revenue up 17% year over year to $63.27 billion, a slowdown from 19% growth in Q1. CEO Sundar Pichai pointed to Gemini 4, now in pretraini…
Mark Traphagen, Mihir Naik, and Suraj Lalchandani of seoClarity presented a split-testing methodology for AI search visibility in a SEJ webinar, arguing that page-level performance and split testing p…
OpenAI retired ChatGPT Atlas on July 9, 2026, just nine months after its launch as a standalone AI browser, with the product ceasing to function on August 9 and its browsing capabilities being folded …
YouTube has outlined three content categories—generic/repetitive, off-putting, and AI personas on sensitive topics—that can disqualify a channel from the YouTube Partner Program, according to Matt Hal…
A new wave of services marketing AI visibility solutions is repeating the same backlink manipulation tactics that Google penalized with its Penguin algorithm, warns SEO analyst. Google's Penguin, now …
OpenAI has shipped its version of attribution for ChatGPT, but the signal is arriving through the ads door, not the webmaster-tools door, according to a survey and analysis by Duane Forrester. The det…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said during the Q2 2026 earnings call that Google needs to improve its coding and agentic coding capabilities, and that a larger Gemini 4 base model will be necessary to sta…
Alphabet reported Q2 2026 earnings with Google Search & Other revenue up 17% year over year to $63.27 billion, easing from 19% growth in Q1 2026 and marking the first decline after four quarters of ac…
60% of Google searches now end without a click to any content, according to Gabriel Dillon, Go-to-Market Lead for Personalization at Contentful, who argued in an SEJ webinar that AI-generated content …
Organizations must shift from optimizing pages to governing answers as AI becomes the primary intermediary between businesses and customers, according to a Search Engine Journal article. The author ar…
AI Overviews now appear in 68% of local searches, compared to 39% for local packs, according to Adam Heitzman, co-founder and managing partner at HigherVisibility. The article advises businesses to re…
Anthropic announced that users on its Pro, Max, and Team plans can now record a screen walkthrough of a task in the Claude desktop app, which Claude Cowork will turn into a reusable skill. The feature…
Google's Merchant Center opened a pilot last week for AI performance insights, a report showing retailers shopping-related questions people ask AI Mode and AI Overviews, but the data groups queries by…
CMOs allocating 15.3% of marketing budgets to AI initiatives in 2026 are over-investing prematurely, as only 30% of organizations are ready to scale, according to Gartner's CMO Spend Survey. Analyst E…
Google is developing a persistent autonomous search system that detects when a query has no satisfactory answer and waits to deliver results when they become available, according to a patent published…
A new analysis reveals that 70% of top retailers are unprepared for agentic commerce, where AI handles the entire customer journey from discovery to checkout. The finding comes as OpenAI and Google ra…
Conductor VP of Marketing Lindsay Boyajian Hagan and VP of Services & Thought Leadership Pat Reinhart argue that manual spot-checks of AI overviews are unreliable, as AI engines regenerate answers wit…
Google AI Mode displayed a text ad on 29% of commercial keywords in a new SE Ranking analysis, and for most of those keywords the advertiser's domain was not among the sources cited by AI Mode. The do…
Agencies face pressure as AI tools like ChatGPT commoditize content production, but the real threat is that AI has replaced what agencies traditionally charge for, not the agencies themselves. Omnicom…
Google.com has become the second most-cited domain in Google's AI Mode, with citation share rising 8.4x between April 15 and June 30, driven primarily by Business Profile cards and Product Knowledge P…