Chris Nelson, Senior Staff Analyst, Search Ranking at Google has updated his LinkedIn bio to specify that he manages a large team that builds ranking solutions for Google Search. One line says, “Address novel content issues (e.g., detection and treatment of AI-generated content).”

Google’s John Mueller said that since the robots.txt file is cached by Google for about 24-hours, it does not make much sense to dynamically update your robots.txt file throughout the day to control controlling. Google won’t necessarily see that you don’t want Google to crawl a page at 7am and then at 9am you do want Google to crawl that page.

FTC settlement proposal alleges that GoDaddy hosting was “blind” to security threats which compromised its customers The post FTC: GoDaddy Hosting Was “Blind” To Security Threats appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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OpenAI secretly funded and had access to a benchmarking dataset on which its new o3 AI reasoning model scored highly The post OpenAI Secretly Funded Benchmarking Dataset Linked To o3 Model appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Search confirms that it’s requiring JavaScript to block bots and scrapers The post Confirmed: Google Is Requiring JavaScript To Block SEO Tools appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google adds AI features to Workspace, but two dollar price hike and unclear settings confuse users. The post Google Workspace Support: Unclear If Opting Out AI Features Avoids Price Hike appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week I covered how the third-party search rank checking tools seem to have cooled, but the chatter is still pretty heated. Maybe Google is blocking these tools…

Some are seeing a super scary Google Ads phishing scam in the Google Search ads slots.