Google is rolling out Skills to Gemini in Chrome on desktop, letting users save prompts as reusable one-click tools and run them across selected tabs.

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Google added back button hijacking to its malicious practices spam policy. Enforcement starts June 15, 2026. Sites have two months to remove offending code.

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Sundar Pichai outlines search as an “agent manager,” signaling a shift from link-based results to task completion and multi-step workflows.

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SISTRIX analyzed German search results after the March core update and found uneven visibility shifts across categories, with some site types hit harder than others.

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An analysis of 400+ websites found five characteristics associated with estimated organic traffic gains.

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Akamai breaks down which AI bots are hitting publishing, who operates them, and why fetcher bots may pose a more immediate risk.

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Google's March core update finished rolling out. Here's what to know about the rollout and when to check your data.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai said AI models could expose more software vulnerabilities and agreed it was plausible AI is affecting zero-day exploit markets.

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An Ipsos survey of U.S. adults found 63% say ads in AI search results would reduce trust. Early advertiser data offers limited, mixed signals.

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ChatGPT Search is citing fewer websites per response after GPT-5.3 Instant became the default experience.

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AI led all cited reasons for U.S. job cuts in March at 25% of the total, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

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Google's Gary Illyes published a blog post explaining how Googlebot works as one client of a centralized crawling platform, with new byte-level details.

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Google's Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt discuss page weight growth, the 15MB crawl limit, and whether structured data is adding bloat to web pages.

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Tufts index projects 9M U.S. jobs at risk from AI. Writers and Authors, Computer Programmers, and Web and Digital Interface Designers top the risk list.

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Google Gemini more than doubled its referral traffic to websites in two months while ChatGPT declined from its peak, SE Ranking data shows.

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