A pair of studies find that 73% of marketing teams use generative AI, and consumers largely accept AI in advertising. The post 73% Of Marketers Use Generative AI, Consumer Acceptance Up appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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

AI chatbots – are they killing search or just changing the game? Kevin Indig analyzed 14 studies on their impact and how businesses can adapt. The post The State Of AI Chatbots And SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Microsoft seems to be testing a more fully AI-powered search engine, which may be named Copilot Search. Copilot is the name of Microsoft’s AI features, formerly known as Bing Chat.

Some sites, hosted on some CDNs (content delivery networks), are experiencing a big spike in server response times for crawling, while seeing a drop in total crawl requests. So technically, the crawling has dropped but Google is taking much longer to crawl a lot less.

18 year old, publicly traded education technology company, Chegg, has sued Google over its AI Overviews and how it has hurt their traffic and revenue.

Struggling with Google not indexing your pages?

Google is testing opening the normally closed/collapsed AI Answer box. Meaning, normally you need to manually tap to expand the answer, here Google is testing opening these boxes by default, without you needing to click expand.

Google seems to have added, for some merchants, a new section named Physical Stores to the Google Merchant Center Next console. In this section is random data from within the store’s Google Business Profiles listing.

At WordCamp Asia 2025 Q&A, Matt Mullenweg struggled to answer where WordPress will be in five years The post WordCamp Asia: No Plans For WordPress In 5 Years appeared first on Search Engine Journal .