Is Google still a search engine? Its Q2 2026 earnings call suggests the answer is changing, and website owners should plan accordingly. The post The Future Of Search & AI: What I Learned From Google’s Latest Earnings Call appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Data ties higher AI detector scores to lower positions and to fewer pages in Google’s index, though heavily flagged pages still rank in top 10.
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Google Rankings Link Higher AI Scores To Lower Positions via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s DMCA case against scraper SerpApi collapsed because SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not copyright. The same reasoning weakens every site’s anti-bot defense against AI crawlers. The post Google Lost Its Scraping Case – Now You Have To Pick A Side On The Open Web appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Agentic protocols are multiplying with no consensus standard in sight. Own the layers underneath instead of chasing a winner. The post Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Why Data Integrity Is The New Technical SEO: From Crawling To Trust via @sejournal, @alexmoss
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.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 28, 2026
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Amazon pulled out of U.S. Google Shopping in July 2025 and still hasn’t returned
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Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
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Amazon pulled out of U.S.
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Amazon Left US Google Shopping A Year Ago & Never Came Back via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson
Since June 11th, Google Search Console’s page indexing report has been getting stuck and not showing more daily data for the past several weeks.
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Google Page Indexing Report Delays Providing Static Data
Since June 11th, Google Search Console’s page indexing report has been getting stuck and not showing more daily data for the past several weeks.
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Google Page Indexing Report Delays Providing Static Data
Google Ads may have released a new ad status named “Has improvements.” I don’t see any other mentions of this status before the weekend, so I am thinking it might be new. Have you seen this one before?
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New Google Ads Status: Has Improvements