An analysis of ChatGPT conversations found the default and premium models cite almost entirely different sources for the same queries.

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Google Maps launches Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for local discovery in the U.S. and India, plus a navigation overhaul in the U.S.

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Google announced that Search Console's brand queries filter is open to all eligible sites, spurring questions about the feature.

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Gutenberg 22.7 adds features that lay the groundwork for a role as an AI publishing platform and improve the editing experience.

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WordPress issues second security release 6.9.4 to address vulnerabilities that version 6.9.2 apparently failed to patch.

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WordPress security release 6.92 fixes 10 vulnerabilities but also causes some sites to crash, requiring bugfix release 6.9.3.

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A survey of B2B decision-makers found peer recommendations are trusted nearly twice as much as AI chatbots, and white papers rank last for perceived value.

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A federal judge granted Amazon a preliminary injunction barring Perplexity's Comet AI agent from accessing Amazon accounts and ordering data destroyed.

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Official WordPress AI Experiments plugin enables users to get advance access to AI features right now.

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A study of U.S. workers finds 14% report "brain fry" from AI overuse. Marketing had the highest rate at 26%.

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Google's John Mueller shared the Disavow File Domain Directive which disavows entire Top Level Domains (TLDs) but cautioned about using it.

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Google's head of Search described how multimodal LLMs help Google understand audio and video, and discussed a direction for subscription-aware search.

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Google updated AI Mode recipe search results to change how it displays recipes and to send more traffic to recipe blogs

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Google's AI Mode self-citations tripled in nine months. SE Ranking data shows that more links now lead to organic search results, not business profiles.

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Google's John Mueller confirmed that most sites don't need to use a disavow file but if you need to be sure, do it.

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NanoClaw's creator says Google ranks a fake website above his project's real site despite 18K GitHub stars, press coverage, and structured data setup.

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New SMEC study analyzes AI Max in Google Ads Search campaigns, showing a 13% conversion value lift but higher CPA and unpredictable ROAS results.

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Google removed its JavaScript accessibility guidance from help documents, saying the advice is outdated and noting it has rendered JavaScript for years.

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WordPress releases three plugins for integrating Claude, Gemini, or OpenAI into websites

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Google updated AI Mode to change how it displays recipes and links to the creators

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Yoast SEO introduces a feature that consolidates site schema and disambiguates entities like authors, articles, products, and organizations.

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A warning was issued about two vulnerabilities affecting up to 60,000 installations of the Seraphinite Accelerator WordPress plugin.

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Up to a hundred thousands websites affected by WordPress calendar plugin vulnerability.

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Page Builder by SiteOrigin WordPress vulnerability rated 8.8/10 affects up to 500,000 websites.

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Critical vulnerability in WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrator role.

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Google's Titans architecture and MIRAS framework enable AI to handle massive amounts of data and work faster.

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Google's AI landing page generator patent is limited to low conversion shopping pages, product feeds and advertising.

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New data finds AI Overviews often cite sources beyond page one. Fan-out queries may help explain why, and YouTube appears frequently in citations.

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Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection.

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It might come as a surprise that some open source projects like WordPress are said to be run by benevolent dictators for life.

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Voiceprint Claude plugin clones your writing style based on five writing samples. Works with any SKILL.md-compatible tool.

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Patchstack's state of WordPress Security report shows more sites get hacked within hours of vulnerability disclosure

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Google AI Overviews shows fast growth across nine industries, now triggering AI Search in nearly half of all search queries.

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Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content.

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Google's February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data suggests fewer domains in top slots.

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