Google research suggests AI spam may be easier to detect by identifying originating networks instead of analyzing content one at a time. The post Google Research Shows How AI Spam Can Be Detected appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google held a Search Central Live event in Milan this week and spoke about several topics including chunking, site-wide signals, AI settings in Search Console, commondity versus non-commodity content, paywalled content, subscriptions for news sites, what clicks look like from AI Overviews and much more.

Microsoft Bing is testing a color selector / viewer in the shopping and product results within Bing Search. This will show you what colors the product is available in, without having to click over to the website to see it.

Google will be turning on conversion-based customer lists for Google Ads advertiser accounts beginning on Jun 17, 2026, with data processing to begin on August 18, 2026.

Google is testing using a hot pink font for the live time for when a place is busy or not. This is part of the old popular times feature, but Google is testing or launching a hot pink font to make it really noticeable.

Pull your top AI-referred landing pages.

OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant, the free default ChatGPT model, now performs comparably to its frontier models on the company’s own health evaluations. The post OpenAI Brings Improved Health Responses To Free ChatGPT appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A coalition including Google, Microsoft, and GitHub published Agentic Resource Discovery, an open draft spec for how AI agents find and verify tools online. The post Google, Microsoft Back Draft AI Agent Discovery Spec appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

A model breaks your prompt into several short retrieval queries before anything hits an index. Prompt length tells you almost nothing about search behavior