OpenAI releases report on ChatGPT outage that blames cloud provider for lack of automatic failure recovery The post OpenAI Blames Cloud Provider For ChatGPT Outage appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

It’s the new year and why should that mean that Google Search calm down at all, in fact, it has been heated all holiday season, through New Years. I posted the 2024 Google algorithm update infographic.

We’ve seen various flavors of the what people are saying sections in the search results before. We’ve even see Google use AI to return results within them. But it seems this expandable carousel format is live in the mobile Google search results now.

The Google Ads API currently does not accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. This is also the case even if specified at the account level, Michael Cloonan, a Google Ads API specialist, wrote.

Explore the art of short-form storytelling and its impact on social media.

A Redditor posted a question asking if startups in 2025 need a blog. This was posted in the SEO section of Reddit, so John Mueller replied by just saying “no.” I guess a startup does not “need” a blog for SEO purposes, it is not a requirement.

Googlers discuss the expertise of SEO gurus who ask questions that “don’t make sense” The post Google Podcast Discusses SEO Expertise appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google warns against excessive JavaScript use. Here’s why this warning is critical for AI search optimization.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. I posted the big Google webmaster report for January 2025, the past month was so insane…