Jeff Dean Is Leaving Google! Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 6 August 2026 at 02:50 The engineer who helped build Google’s search-scale infrastructure is joining three other senior Google researchers to launch Discovery Loop, an…
Reddit’s DMCA Case Against Scrapers Survives, Despite Google’s Earlier Loss Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 1 August 2026 at 22:37 A federal judge has allowed most of Reddit’s lawsuit against Perplexity AI, SerpApi and other data-scraping companies to move forward.…
AI Invented Zero Changes and Missed 242 Real Ones Search Engine World By: Andre Alpar 30 July 2026 at 12:45 If auditing what AI assistants say about your category is part of your job, you have probably built some kind…
In a Win for SEO’s and Webmasters, Googles’ SERPAPI “Scraping” Lawsuit Tossed Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 22 July 2026 at 11:54 The ruling is narrower than some headlines suggest. The court dismissed Google’s current DMCA claims, permanently rejecting the theory for…
Google Updates Images Turns 25 With Personalized Discovery and AI Image Generation Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 15 July 2026 at 03:15 Google is turning Images into a personalized discovery feed and adding AI image generation directly to Search. The changes also…
My Top Chrome Extensions for Using ChatGPT Every Day Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 9 July 2026 at 17:08 I spend a lot of time inside ChatGPT. I mean I USE ChatGPT all day everyday for long research sessions,…
You cannot take an AI at its word – and why this is important für your GEO efforts. Search Engine World By: Andre Alpar 6 July 2026 at 13:21 In part 1 I left you with a promise: same AI, same question asked twice, opposite answers. Here is where…
Which AI systems actually read the live web, and why it decides your GEO Search Engine World By: Andre Alpar 1 July 2026 at 12:08 I asked 16 AI assistants 50 health questions. One read 147 web pages, another read zero. That split decides your whole GEO strategy. Here is why.
Updated 10-5-2026 – Big Search Engine List: Who Indexes What? Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 15 August 2026 at 13:43 Last updated: 10-5-2026 For SEOs working at scale, understanding which search engines actually crawl and index the web, and which…
Google as High as 7 Billion’ish Clicks a Day Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 25 June 2026 at 15:43 Google’s search scale is stupefyingly ginormous, but the more useful question for site owners is not how many searches happen…
Google Webmaster? Google Gives Site Owners an AI Button, But Not a New Deal Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 24 June 2026 at 14:48 Google’s new Search generative AI control is useful, overdue, and beyond limited – to the point of uselessness? Site owners…
DuckDuck Surges as Web Continues to Generate AI Angst Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 23 June 2026 at 17:20 CNBC says Google’s online dominance is showing signs of cracking in the AI era. The more interesting crack is not…
Big List of Website Directories for 2026 Updated 6-30-26 Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 23 June 2026 at 07:17 (Last Updated: 7-1-2026) Directory listings tend to get dismissed as legacy SEO, but that misses how they actually function today.…
Hidden Prompt Injection vs. Twelve AI Assistants: One Obeyed, Three Warned the User Search Engine World By: Andre Alpar 22 June 2026 at 11:31 Our investigation into prompt injection all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients. They had found a…
Do AI Assistants Actually Respect Your robots.txt? We Put 12 of Them to the Test. Search Engine World By: Andre Alpar 20 June 2026 at 14:07 Our investigation into AI crawler behavior all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients: if we block…
UK finds Google’s Search Ranking “neither fair nor transparent” Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 19 June 2026 at 16:54 The UK Competition and Markets Authority has ordered Google to make parts of its search system more transparent and fair…
German Court Tells Google: Your AI Answers Are Your Problem Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 10 June 2026 at 21:45 A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews,…
Sorta Google Finally Gives Publishers Something they call “AI Search Report” Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 10 June 2026 at 13:14 Google has announced new Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console, which is a very Google way of saying:…
Do AI Assistants Actually Render Your JavaScript when Grounding? We Put It to the Test. Search Engine World By: Andre Alpar 9 June 2026 at 14:07 Our investigation into how AI assistants read web pages all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients.…
Google Tests Making AI Mode the Default Search in Chrome Search Engine World By: Brett Tabke 6 June 2026 at 14:57 A Chrome Canary experiment briefly showed what a full AI-first search experience could look like, even if Google says it…