Real-time Santa tracking returns for 2025, with Google and NORAD offering interactive maps, games, and global arrival updates.

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Google's Year in Search reveals trending actors, movies, athletes, games, recipes, and travel destinations that captured attention throughout 2025.

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A new dataset of 300K viral YouTube videos suggests that faces in thumbnails perform about the same as without them, with larger differences by niche.

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Vulnerability in Redirection For Contact Form 7 WordPress Plugin affects up to 300,000 installations

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Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content from Google Search results at scale.

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Microsoft published guidance on how duplicate content affects AI search visibility, explaining that AI systems cluster similar pages and may surface unintended versions.

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Sam Altman addresses questions about OpenAI's losses and path to profitability.

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Core Web Vitals measurements reveal a significant difference between open source and proprietary CMS platforms.

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Google's Danny Sullivan says all of their ranking systems reward content that is made for humans

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Coursera agrees to acquire Udemy in a stock-for-stock transaction.

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Google's Robby Stein explains how AI Mode judges content quality and names five quality signals useful for SEO

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It's time to reset how we think about links and link building for SEO and AI search.

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Google's Danny Sullivan provided advice on how SEOs can address client expectations around AI.

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Google offers direct guidance on what matters for ranking in AI-driven search experiences.

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Google SVP Nick Fox says AI Mode’s personal context features, including opt-in Gmail connections teased at I/O, are still in internal testing.

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Google launches Gemini 3 Flash and makes it the default in the Gemini app. It’s rolling out as AI Mode’s default model.

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Google updated its JavaScript SEO docs with new guidance on canonical URLs for JavaScript-rendered pages. Keep canonicals consistent before and after rendering.

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Don't build links without first understanding these facts about trust and authority.

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How you answer skeptical questions matters more than the questions themselves when links are at stake.

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Five expert strategies for increasing visitors to informational sites and outperforming competitors.

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Apple's updated Safari browser enables site owners to more accurately track critical Core Web Vitals metrics.

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