Google is testing a new ad format below AI Overviews, with an image on the left and the title and description on the right under a ‘Sponsored’ heading. An SEO professional and SERP analyst with over ...

Microsoft is testing a “Learn more” call-to-action button on sponsored results in Bing Copilot, adding a new interactive element to ads displayed within AI-generated answers. An SEO professional and ...

Microsoft Edge now tells users they must sign in to access Copilot, with new prompts making the requirement explicit.

Google appears to have reduced AI-generated answers in People Also Ask results, based on recent testing across several queries. We previously covered a report showing Google’s People Also Ask answers ...

Marketers spend months building toward December 25, then let the account coast through the following week. Pinterest’s latest data suggests the post-Christmas week deserves more attention. It can be ...

Google is promoting its Be Scam Ready game on the Search homepage, giving users a chance to test their ability to spot scams through real-life scenarios. Google is raising awareness about online scams ...

Adobe forecasts AI-referred traffic to US retail sites will grow 130% this holiday season, but says the channel remains modest in overall volume. Adobe expects traffic from AI platforms to US retail ...

Google is testing a new loading button for AI Overviews that shows the full overview at once without a 'Show more' button, continuing a recent pattern of default-expansion changes." An SEO ...

An SEO practitioner reports an AI Overview citation from a public notebook. Another SEO practitioner has since highlighted more promotional pages indexed on Google’s domain. Public reports from Google ...

Google’s John Mueller has suggested that pages returning the same error message could explain a site owner’s report of Google selecting a page on an unrelated ...

Cloudflare’s Bot Preference Sync updates a website’s robots.txt from the AI crawler settings in its dashboard. It follows broad categories such as search and training, so publishers with exceptions ...

Google is testing a “+” button on its mobile homepage that gives users quick access to AI Mode, image creation, photos, camera, and files. Google is testing a new “+” button in the search bar on its ...