Google is testing a new format for sitelinks within the search ads, sponsored listings. This format has the sitelinks underlined with blue dots.

Rand Fishkin and friends (Sparktoro and Similarweb) released an ongoing Google zero-click study that showed zero-click searches from Google Search have been sending less and less traffic to the open web and are declining at an even faster rate. In fact, the report says 68.01% of Google searches ended without a click and if you look at AI responses, it is more like only 27.6% of clicks go to the open web.

The folks over at Schema.org have added usage statistics to each schema type. So if you want to see which schema type is used more, you can just check Schema.org. For example, author schema is used on over 10 million domains but event schema is used on under 1 million domains.

Apple has made changes to its documentation for AppleBot to include crawling and usage for its AI efforts. There were other changes made to the document on June 08, 2026 as well.

Search is diversifying fast. Google’s financials, AI Mode growth data, and Discover’s potential reveal what’s really coming next. The post What The Future Of Google Looks Like appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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Digital Content Next sent Common Crawl a cease and desist letter demanding it stop scraping publisher content and remove protected material from its datasets. The post US Publishers Demand Common Crawl Stop Scraping Their Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Digital Content Next sent Common Crawl a cease and desist letter demanding it stop scraping publisher content and remove protected material from its datasets. The post US Publishers Demand Common Crawl Stop Scraping Their Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Digital Content Next sent Common Crawl a cease and desist letter demanding it stop scraping publisher content and remove protected material from its datasets. The post US Publishers Demand Common Crawl Stop Scraping Their Content appeared first on Search Engine Journal .