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

Google announced the release of the June 2025 core update on June 30th at around 10:37 am ET.

The past thirty days in the Google search and SEO universe was pretty hectic.

Google’s John Mueller said that he doesn’t think links play a role with how core updates work. He wrote on Bluesky, “I can’t think of how these links would play a role with the core updates.”

Microsoft has moved the Copilot search tab under the Bing Search box to the first position in that menu bar. With that change, it seems Microsoft renamed the “All” tab to “Web.”

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