Microsoft will be laying off about 4% of its workforce, which is about 9,000 employees. It is unclear if any of those jobs are across the Bing, Copilot or Microsoft Advertising businesses, or any search-related business.

Google has confirmed an issue with Google Ads, where there are unexpected errors, high latency and other unexpected issues with the Google Ads advertiser console.

YouTube is updating its monetization policies to target mass-produced and repetitious content. Here’s you need to know.

Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawl feature blocks AI crawlers and allows publishers to charge for access, sparking debate in the SEO industry over content visibility and monetization. The post Cloudflare Sparks SEO Debate With New AI Crawler Payment System appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

YouTube is replacing the “returning viewers” metric with new viewer segments to help creators better understand long-term audience engagement. The post YouTube Adds New Viewer Metrics To Track Audience Loyalty appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google announced the release of the June 2025 core update on June 30th at around 10:37 am ET.

The past thirty days in the Google search and SEO universe was pretty hectic.

Google’s John Mueller said that he doesn’t think links play a role with how core updates work. He wrote on Bluesky, “I can’t think of how these links would play a role with the core updates.”

Microsoft has moved the Copilot search tab under the Bing Search box to the first position in that menu bar. With that change, it seems Microsoft renamed the “All” tab to “Web.”