Microsoft's Bing team published a framework describing how grounding for AI-generated answers differs from traditional search across five measurement areas.

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Google is adding subscription labels, inline links, discussion previews, and desktop link previews to its AI Search experiences.

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Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol for verifying some AI agent requests with cryptographic signatures alongside existing checks.

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A lawsuit alleges Google's AI Overview falsely identified musician Ashley MacIsaac as a sex offender. It seeks $1.5M in damages.

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Google previews Meridian GeoX, Meridian Studio, Data Manager updates, and visual Google tag setup ahead of Google Marketing Live.

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Google's Nikola Todorovic said AI can act "like a kind of a black box" while explaining why machine learning was hard to deploy in Search.

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Data shows YouTube, Reddit, and aggregators lost US search visibility after Google's March core update, while brand and government sites gained.

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Ask.com, the search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves, has shut down. IAC discontinued the search business after nearly 30 years.

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Alphabet and Microsoft earnings show search ad revenue growing while Google Network revenue fell to $6.97B, continuing a multi-quarter decline.

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Google's web.dev guidance advises developers to treat AI agents as a distinct visitor type and recommends practices similar to accessibility practices.

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Google repeats the bounce clicks claim. Alphabet and Microsoft report from the revenue side. More in this week's SEO Pulse.

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Aleyda Solis's Similarweb analysis of 10 markets shows that AI search clicks frequently redirect to local domains, with the distribution differing by industry.

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Microsoft says Bing reached 1B monthly active users, as search ad revenue grew 12% and Edge gained share for the 20th straight quarter.

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Alphabet's Q1 2026 earnings put Google Search revenue at $60.4 billion, up 19% YoY, as Pichai tied AI experiences to higher Search usage.

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OpenAI crawl activity roughly tripled after GPT-5, with OAI-SearchBot now generating more log events than GPTBot.

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Google is testing "Ask YouTube," a conversational search feature that returns AI summaries with cited videos. Available to US Premium users.

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Microsoft previewed four new AI reporting features for Bing Webmaster Tools at SEO Week, including Citation Share and grounding query intent labels.

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A randomized field experiment found Google AI Overviews reduced organic clicks on triggered queries by 38%, while user experience ratings stayed unchanged.

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Seer Interactive says brand-cited AI Overview CTR fell 61% as impressions grew faster than clicks across cited pages.

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Google’s Liz Reid told Bloomberg AI Overviews cut “bounce clicks,” not deeper visits, but Google still hasn’t shared data backing that claim.

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Google documents deep link best practices and signals robots.txt doc expansion. The EU proposes Google share search data with rivals and AI chatbots.

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Google may expand its unsupported robots.txt rules list using HTTP Archive data and could broaden how it handles common misspellings of disallow.

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OpenAI's public crawler docs now list OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and ad relevance.

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Google adds view-through conversion optimization to Demand Gen and expands Commerce Media Suite support.

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Google posted a GEO Partner Manager role in its ads sales organization, using “Generative Engine Optimization” terminology in an ads-side job description.

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Digiday reports an early ChatGPT ads manager build now shows $3-$5 CPC bids for some pilot advertisers, as OpenAI continues expanding its ad tools.

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Google Ads now enables call recording by default for eligible AI-qualified call leads, changing how call conversions are evaluated in the U.S. and Canada.

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The European Commission proposed Google share data with rival search engines and qualifying AI chatbots in the EU/EEA.

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Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of "Read more" deep links appearing.

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