AI bot paywalls are framed as new income. The real question is which AI answers you’re willing to disappear from. The post Charging AI Bots Decides Which Agents Can Still Cite You appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s new AI & Economy report compares Gemini and AI Mode conversations against how Americans spend their days. The post Google Data Compares Gemini & AI Mode Use Against Daily Life appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Alphabet detailed Search revenue to the decimal. Google described web traffic in three kinds of unverifiable claims

Google’s John Mueller explains a robots.txt quirk that can cause Googlebot to ignore robots.txt rules. The post Google Says Why It May Ignore Robots.txt And Negatively Impact SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

GatherUp’s Annie Jackson and Jason Wertham show how to audit what ChatGPT and AI Overviews say about your locations, and which inputs change the answer. The post Emergency Brand Audit: What AI Says About Your Locations appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Stop measuring creator partnerships by view counts. The value shows up downstream, in traffic, AI citations, and conversions your dashboard isn’t tracking.

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

This week…

A court dismisses Google’s DMCA claims against SerpApi, the EU fines Google €890 million, major publishers weigh leaving Google, and Search growth eases.

Google continues to add more AI features to the Google Merchant Center portal. We saw Merchant Advisor added earlier this year, AI performance reports added just the other week, and now we are seeing more AI sprinkled throughout Merchant Center.