For the past 15 or so years, Google would post holiday-specific decorations at the top of its search results for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. Well, this year Google did not. Google did post an Easter egg in the search results, which they do every year, and it posted the season’s greeting Doodle, but not the holiday-specific decorations.
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Google Search Forgot The Holiday Decorations In 2025
Fabrice Canel and Krishna Madhavan from the Microsoft Bing team posted a useful blog post named Does Duplicate Content Hurt SEO and AI Search Visibility? The short answer is yes, and the long answer is also yes.
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Bing: Duplicate & Similar Pages Blur Signals & Weaken SEO & AI Visibility
Google is testing pushing advertisers to use Google Ads Advisor from within the Google Ads reporting section. Google Ads suggested questions and prompts at the top of the report, which it thinks you would find helpful to chat with an AI bot about.
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Google Ads Advisor Suggestions Within Google Ad Reporting
Microsoft is testing a “more sources” section within the Bing Search results.
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Bing Search Tests More Sources Section
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An analysis of 2025’s most emotionally effective holiday ads shows why nostalgia, warmth, and human storytelling still outperform spend.
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Top 10 Emotionally-Engaging Holiday Ads Of 2025 (With A Bonus One) via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2025
Google’s Year in Search reveals trending actors, movies, athletes, games, recipes, and travel destinations that captured attention throughout 2025. The post Google Reveals The Top Searches Of 2025 appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Google Reveals The Top Searches Of 2025 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
PPC accounts without scripts rely on luck, manual checks, and late alerts. Here’s why that’s a risk serious advertisers shouldn’t accept
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Why Every Google Ads Account Needs To Run Scripts
This week’s Ask an SEO addresses where keyword optimization ends and keyword stuffing begins in modern search and AI-driven systems. The post Ask An SEO: What Is The Threshold Between Keyword Stuffing & Being Optimized?
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Ask An SEO: What Is The Threshold Between Keyword Stuffing & Being Optimized? via @sejournal, @rollerblader
Some Google Ads MCC, Manager Accounts, are seeing channel performance reporting. This does not seem to have been rolled out to all advertisers yet, but Mike Ryan noticed it was rolling out on some of his MCC accounts.
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Google Ads MCC Accounts With Channel Performance Reporting