We start off with the Google September 2026 spam update completing, it had its third and final phase earlier in the week. Google may be issuing more manual action search ...

Microsoft Bing is testing showing the local pack results without borders. Normally, the local pack has a small outline border around the results, but for some reason, Microsoft is testing not placing ...

Microsoft Bing is getting fancy and stylish with its line separators in Bing Search. Bing is testing fading the line ...

Microsoft Bing is testing dropping favicons from Bing search result snippets. This makes the search results page look much ...

Google has announced its UGC Fresh Data Program, which Google says "is an initiative designed to help platforms display fresh ...

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

Google may be issuing more manual action penalties over the past few weeks than it has over the weeks before that. The ...

The Google September 2026 spam update is now done rolling out. It started on Thursday, September 28, 2026 at around 12:00 pm ...

Google is testing allowing AI Overviews to add items to your calendar with an add to calendar link on event dates. I can't replicate this and the truth is, every time i refresh the queries I am ...

Google Ads is testing a new billing menu bar or tab that adds more options and links to the billing section. It looks like ...

I figured I'd document it here by letting you all know that this "story" is my 50,000th published story for the search industry. Yes, I've written 50,000 stories on search and on the search industry ...

Google has just pushed some updates to the reduce the Google crawl rate documentation. Most of the changes are just ...