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.
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Microsoft Bing Testing Copilot Search
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.
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Google Crawler Update Causing Spikes In Crawling For Some
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.
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Google Sued Over AI Overviews For Hurting Traffic & Revenue
Struggling with Google not indexing your pages?
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Ask An SEO: Why Is Google Not Indexing My Pages? via @sejournal, @rollerblader
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.
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Google Tests AI-Generated Answer Results Open By Default
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.
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Google Merchant Center Next Physical Stores Section
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 .
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Research data compares Google AIO volatility with organic search and suggests a fresh perspective for SEO The post Data Shows Google AI Overviews Changing Faster Than Organic Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Data Shows Google AI Overviews Changing Faster Than Organic Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Learn five proven conversion rate optimization strategies to turn more visitors into leads on your money pages.
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Study finds TikTok ads yield strong short-term ROI, outperforming other channels for immediate sales. The post TikTok Ads Achieve Highest Short-Term ROI, Says Dentsu Study appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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