Platforms lost younger audience share, too. Publishers still have the bigger problem. The data explains why.

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

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

Bing’s latest AI reporting confirms that rankings and citations measure different outcomes, requiring new visibility strategies across AI search. The post Microsoft Just Proved A Point About Search Today appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Ads, as we covered earlier, made changes to Target CPA & Target ROAS.

Here is the monthly Google Webmaster report, where I summarize the major organic Google Search news and SEO topics from the past month. The big news was the Google June 2026 spam update, which took only two days to roll out and felt like it started earlier and was substantial.

If you take a look at the Bing Webmaster Tools newish AI performance reports, you may see more data, impressions, etc showing up on and after June 1, 2026. Microsoft said this is just “regular data backfilling” and there are “no anomalies” (which I think is a dig at Google).

Google has reportedly updated the Google Ads “All Campaigns” drop-down selection box to be from the center of the screen to the top-left corner and added the full campaign hierarchy in an expandable view.

Google’s DMCA Crisis is turning a copyright protection system into a tool that bad actors can use against publishers.

Google updated how it handles sending searchers to AMP pages within Google Search. Now Google will send searchers directly to publisher-hosted AMP pages instead of the cached pages displayed in an AMP viewer. Google said this was done because it “simplifies and reduces maintenance efforts for publishers who are creating AMP content.”