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Microsoft Tests Larger Ask Copilot Button On Bing Home Page

2026/01/07

Microsoft is testing a much larger “Ask Copilot” button on the Bing home page. Normally, Bing only has a small Copilot logo on the right of the search box but in this test, Bing writes it all out – “Ask Copilot” with the logo.

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Google Personalizing Some AI Overviews & AI Mode Answers

2026/01/07

Google’s Robby Stein confirmed (again) that Google is personalizing some of the AI experiences, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. He said this on the CNN, Terms of Service podcast with Clare Duffy.

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Google Hiring Search Intelligence Chief of Staff

2026/01/07

Google is hiring a Chief of Staff on Search Intelligence, Strategy and Operations. This job is to “help architect the next era of Search with AI,” Rajan Patel, the Vice President of Search Engineering of Google, posted on LinkedIn.

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Google Ads Using New AI Model To Catch Fraudulent Advertisers via @sejournal, @martinibuster

2026/01/07

Google Ads quietly implements a powerful multimodal AI that improves Google’s ability to catch fraudulent advertisers.

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The State of AEO & GEO in 2026 [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

2026/01/07

Uncover insights on the state of AEO as AI-driven discovery reshapes strategies for enterprise organizations in 2026. The post The State of AEO & GEO in 2026 [Webinar] appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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The Guardian: Google AI Overviews Gave Misleading Health Advice via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

2026/01/06

A Guardian investigation says health experts found misleading information in Google’s AI Overviews for some medical searches. Google disputes the findings. The post The Guardian: Google AI Overviews Gave Misleading Health Advice appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 6, 2026

2026/01/06

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

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State Of AI Search Optimization 2026 via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig

2026/01/06

AI search is replacing ranked results with single answers.

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Google Hiring AI Answers & Search Quality Software Engineer

2026/01/06

Google posted a new job listing looking to hire a new Senior Software Engineer, Search, AI Answers Quality. The job post says “Help the AI Answers Quality team deliver AI Overviews to users’ hard and complicated queries on the SRP and in AI Mode.”

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Google Added LLMs.txt To It’s Web Sites For Other Reasons Than Discovery

2026/01/06

A month ago, Google added LLMs.txt files to many of its developer and documentation sites including the Search developer docs. As you know, Google pulled it off the Search developer docs within a day or so but the LLMs.txt files still remain on many of Google’s other sites.

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