Technical SEO “best practices” increasingly reflect CMS and plugin defaults, not individual site decisions, according to 2025 HTTP Archive analysis.
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Web Almanac Data Reveals CMS Plugins Are Setting Technical SEO Standards (Not SEOs) via @sejournal, @chrisgreenseo
Microsoft has implemented and continues to deploy mitigations against prompt injection attacks in Copilot, the company announced last week. Spammers were using the “Summarize with AI” type of buttons to trick AI engines into believing or trusting a specific company or response.
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Microsoft Thwarts AI Prompt Injection Attacks Aimed To Manipulate AI Engines
Google reportedly updated its Google Ads support contact form to add a disclaimer and checkbox to say you authorize “Google Ads specialist on behalf of your company to make the changes above directly to your company’s Google Ads account to reproduce and troubleshoot the issue.”
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Google Ads Support Form Requires You To Authorize Google To Make Changes
Microsoft Advertising is testing an update to the shopping ads carousel that can show multiple images in a single card. Essentially, you are seeing a carousel within a carousel for Bing shopping ads.
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Microsoft Advertising Tests Shopping Carousel With Multiple Images Toggle
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Join our webinar to discover effective strategies for automating Google Ads and mastering Performance Max Smart Bidding. The post 2026 Google Ads Playbook: 5 Strategies Behind Profitable Ad Spend appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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2026 Google Ads Playbook: 5 Strategies Behind Profitable Ad Spend via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
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Join our webinar to discover effective strategies for automating Google Ads and mastering Performance Max Smart Bidding.
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2026 Google Ads Playbook: 5 Strategies Behind Profitable Ad Spend via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
Google is testing removing the dates from the articles shown in the Google Discover feed. This is a limited test, Google confirmed, to see the impact of removing the date value.
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Google Tests Removing Dates From Articles In Discover Feed
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Microsoft Advertising seems to be testing a new design for the Bing shopping ads carousel. The new design fills the screen more from left to right than the old design and is just wider in general.
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Bing Updates Shopping Ads Design
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Early third-party tracking data offers a first look at how Google’s February Discover core update is changing what users see in their feeds. The post Google Discover Update: Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Discover Update: Early Data Shows Fewer Domains In US via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
SerpApi filed a motion to dismiss Google’s DMCA lawsuit, arguing the search giant lacks standing to invoke copyright law over publicly visible search results. The post SerpApi Challenges Google’s Right To Sue Over SERP Scraping appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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SerpApi Challenges Google’s Right To Sue Over SERP Scraping via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern