📰 Search Engine Journal

Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly. The post The Future Of S

Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google's index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10. The post Heavily

Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site's anti-bot de

Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner. The post Why Data Integrity Is The

Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn't returned. Here's what a year of auction data reveals for retailers. The post Amazon Left

A new SEO test shows what happens when Google's Web Rendering Service continues past five seconds: Google pauses time with a virtual clock. The post Google SEO

Shared Claude chats showed up in Google. We checked the pages and found a noindex header sitting behind a robots.txt block that keeps Google out. The post Index

A new report finds ChatGPT citation rates vary sharply by topic, with travel answers citing sources far more often than education answers. The post ChatGPT Link

AI sends barely any traffic, but the traffic it sends is twice as engaged. Here's why publishers should care. The post How Publishers Can Monetize AI Visibility

Before your next AI video goes live: Audit disclosure against YouTube's actual policy, produce below the ceiling, and name the human decision-maker. The post AI

Google's August 17 update pushes budget-limited Target CPA and Target ROAS campaigns toward their stated targets, risking higher costs unless advertisers audit

Google may be penalizing AI-generated content under an expanded definition of thin content. The post Google May Be Penalizing AI-Generated Content As Thin Conte

Google expanded its review snippet documentation with new ways content can trigger a manual action. The post Google Expands Review Guidelines And Warns Of Manua

X publicly documented its anti-chatbot campaign over 24 hours, showing how quickly AI-generated spam evolves and how X responds. The post X Live-Tweets Its Figh

AI bot paywalls are framed as new income. The real question is which AI answers you're willing to disappear from. The post Charging AI Bots Decides Which Agents

Google's new AI & Economy report compares Gemini and AI Mode conversations against how Americans spend their days. The post Google Data Compares Gemini & AI Mod

Alphabet detailed Search revenue to the decimal. Google described web traffic in three kinds of unverifiable claims. Q2 widened the gap. The post Google’s Q2: P

Google's John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules. The post Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Neg

GatherUp's Annie Jackson and Jason Wertham show how to audit what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about your locations, and which inputs change the answer. The pos

Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard isn't tracking. The

A court dismisses Google's DMCA claims against SerpApi, the EU fines Google €890 million, major publishers weigh leaving Google, and Search growth eases. The po

Dive into the evidence behind AI search and its effects on page performance. Learn from experts in the latest SEJ discussion. The post AI Search is Working. How

OpenAI killed Atlas because AI browsers were always a workaround. The real fix is a website machines can actually read. The post AI Browsers Are Backward Becaus

YouTube spelled out three kinds of content that can stop a channel from getting paid, and says it's clarifying existing rules, not changing them. The post YouTu