Google Trends seems to be broken or stalled over the past few hours. If you filter Google Trends for a specific region and then say only show me trends over the past four hours, you may only see a few keywords show up and not pages of keywords, like you’d normally expect.

Google’s Gary Illyes said that AI-generated content should have human editorial oversight.

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that AI-generated content does not have a negative impact on SEO. The post Google Says AI-Generated Content Will Not Cause Ranking Penalty appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Analytics seems not to be functioning properly again.

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. Another weekend…

Search is evolving into semantic territory. Web Guide’s “query fan-out” changes how content is found, and how it must be created.

This weekend I am seeing a spike in chatter within the SEO community on the topic of, you guessed it, Google search ranking volatility. Truth is, it really has not calmed down and the heated Google search results have been ongoing for about 6 weeks now but this weekend, I saw a spike in the SEO chatter.

There are numerous reports that Google may be using a more generic and undocumented Googlebot, Google crawler. The crawler user agent is just named “Google,” and it is not listed in any of the documented crawlers that Google has provided.

Google is testing a horizontal line about the search ads, the sponsored results, within the Google search results.

Kenichi Suzuki and Rio Ichikawa from Farber Company in Japan sat down with Gary Illyes of Google to interview him on AI Search, AI content, SEO and other topics.