Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google’s index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10.

Google’s DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site’s anti-bot defense against AI crawlers. The post Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner. The post Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn’t returned

Amazon pulled out of U.S.

Since June 11th, Google Search Console’s page indexing report has been getting stuck and not showing more daily data for the past several weeks.

Since June 11th, Google Search Console’s page indexing report has been getting stuck and not showing more daily data for the past several weeks.

Google Ads may have released a new ad status named “Has improvements.” I don’t see any other mentions of this status before the weekend, so I am thinking it might be new. Have you seen this one before?

Google Ads has added two new product reporting metrics to some reports, product clicks and non-product clicks. Product clicks are when a searcher clicked directly on a product in your ad and non-product clicks are when a searcher clicked another part of the ad, not the specific product.