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2026/04/20
Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show what SEOs should do to improve AI search performance The post 68 Million AI Crawler Visits Show What Drives AI Search Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show what SEOs should do to improve AI search performance The post 68 Million AI Crawler Visits Show What Drives AI Search Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
The next phase of ecommerce is being shaped by AI agents, open commerce protocols, and payment systems built for transactions without a human at checkout.
Stanford’s 2026 AI Index covers 400+ pages of data. Here’s what search professionals should take from the adoption numbers, reliability gaps, and transparency decline. The post AI Adoption Outpaced The PC & Internet: Dive Into The Stanford Report Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google targets back button hijacking as a spam violation, says spam reports may trigger manual actions, and expands agentic restaurant booking to more markets.
This week we covered a new Google Search spam penalty for back button hijacking. Google also updated its spam report, it may now be used for manual actions.
Google also released the annual Google Maps safety report saying blocked or removed over 292 million policy-violating reviews and removed over 13 million fake Business Profiles. Google also said it blocked 79 million inaccurate or unverified edits and placed posting restrictions on more than 783,000 policy-violating accounts.
Google has released its annual Google Ads safety report and the big number that stands out to me is that Google removed 8.3 billion ads, which is up almost 63% from last year’s number of 5.1 billion. Google did say that 99% of those were removed before serving the ad, thanks to Gemini.
Microsoft is testing animating the Bing “people also search for” boxes. Bing will run this animated outline around the boxes when it loads, to give it more attention to the searcher.