Google is testing Web Bot Auth, an experimental protocol for verifying some AI agent requests with cryptographic signatures alongside existing checks. The post Google Testing Web Bot Auth To Verify AI Agent Requests appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A lawsuit alleges Google’s AI Overview falsely identified musician Ashley MacIsaac as a sex offender. It seeks $1.5M in damages.

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

Advisor or builder? How agentic vibe coding is redefining what marketing and product work actually means. The post AI Changed My Work.

Google previews Meridian GeoX, Meridian Studio, Data Manager updates, and visual Google tag setup ahead of Google Marketing Live. The post Google Previews Meridian GeoX, Data Manager Measurement Updates appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google seems to be suspending Google Business Profiles due to user account restrictions. There may have been a wave of suspensions over the past several days related to this issue and local SEO experts are unclear if this is a bug or some other issue.

Microsoft, during its earnings call last week, announced that Bing hit a huge milestone of 1 billion monthly active users. Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft later confirmed these “users” do not include AI agents but are real actual humans.

Google has posted an update and emailed advertisers on changes to its Google Ads data retention policy.

Similarweb published some data sharing the click-through rates for OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads. The overall CTR for ChatGPT ads are 0.68%, the top quartile is 1%, the best brands are 1.57% and the peak CTR is 5.4%.

Google posted new developer documentation for how to authenticate requests with Web Bot Auth. This is a “new cryptographic protocol that helps websites to validate that bots are authentic,” Google wrote.