We knew Google would appeal the search monopoly ruling; in fact, Google asked the courts to pause the remedies until the appeal is handled. Google was ruled an illegal monopoly in August 2024 but then the courts refused to break up Google as part of the remedies in September 2025.

Sundar Pichai says Google is “a bit behind” in agentic coding, citing a lack of developer-facing products as one reason for the gap.

Back in March, we were the first to talk about Microsoft Bing testing a new AI version of Bing image search. Microsoft was not talking about it, but it was clear that this was an AI-curated, categorized, and grouped image search experience

Since Google launched AI Overviews (and AI Mode), there was an apparent lag or delay from when a web page would be removed from the Google Search index, including after getting a manual action penalty, to when it would also be removed from the AI Overview (or AI Mode). That delay is reportedly gone.

Google has added a lot of content boxes below the search box on the Google home page. These boxes promote a lot of the news out of Google I/O around AI Mode, AI image generation, tips on using AI Mode and more search news that came out of I/O.

Generally, when a Google Business Profile email notice gets sent, especially the rejection notices, the details around that rejection are obscure and unknown.

The skills that earned your promotion are the ones you need to unlearn. Here’s what separates executors from strategists in marketing careers.

Google has historically not posted a Doodle, a special Google logo, for Memorial Day in the United States.

AEO, GEO, AI Mode, signal loss. Three recent SEJ articles read together reveal the same truth: the questions beneath the terminology never changed. The post Digital PR Hasn’t Changed – AI Search Just Made The Fundamentals More Important appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Most of the checks that tanked your agent-readiness score don’t apply to your website type.