Microsoft reported its fourth-quarter 2026 earnings, showing that its search and advertising revenue was up 10%, indicating its ad growth was 2 points lower than the previous quarter. The previous quarter it was up 12%, before that up 10% before that, up 16% and the one before that was 21% and this quarter, it is only up 10%.

Five articles explain why AI citations fluctuate, where they come from, what makes them persist, and how to audit content for stronger AI visibility. The post Q3 AI Visibility: AI Citations, Brand Mentions & Content Refreshes That Work appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Kevin Indig’s data across 1,094 categories shows that only 15.2% have a clear ChatGPT owner, and citations barely predict which brand gets named. The post 89% Of AI Search Demand Has No Clear Owner: Use This Before The Window Closes appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Treat Europe as one Google market, and you’ll miss Seznam, Ecosia, Zalando, and a regulatory layer that can close a door overnight. The post European Search Strategy Goes Beyond Google & Bing appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Search Console platform properties are now open to everyone worldwide, and Google has published a guide to reading your social and video search data. The post Google Opens Search Console Social Reporting To Everyone appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Lead-gen and ecommerce managers: two Google Ads bidding changes landed this summer. Here’s what shifts, what doesn’t, and which campaigns to audit first

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Earlier this month, Google announced platform properties, a way to see content that you manage but on third-party platforms, including social platforms and video platforms. So if you have an account on Instagram, TikTok, X and/or YouTube, you can claim access and see how your content on those platforms are performing within Google Search. That feature is now globally live as of today, Google announced.

Perplexity never skips the web, so every query is winnable. Here’s what its live answer stream reveals about citations, video, and local. The post How Perplexity Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Stream, Not The Answers) appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google supports the unavailable_after meta attribute, which will tell Google not to show this page in search results after the specified date/time. The problem with this, is that if you try to change the unavailable_after date later, Google might not pick up on it because Google may not try to crawl that page before the last given date.