#search-engines — Public Fediverse posts

Press Gazette: Health coverage is getting killed by Google AI Overviews. “Looking at data from three months at the start of 2026, Sistrix estimates that health sections on major news brands will have seen links to articles supplanted by an AI-written summary 72% of the time in Google search results.”

Microsoft’s current strategy for getting people to use Bing: fake a Google homepage to trap users who are trying to leave, AND offer a million dollars in a sweepstakes.

That’s the grand plan, act like browser hijacker and wave a bribe.

🔗 https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-spots-same-leopard

#bigtech #bing #blog #darkpatterns #edge #google #microsoft #searchengines #userhostile #windows1

From Links to Answers: The Interface Shift in Information Access https://tinyurl.com/524j2bhm

#ai #artificialintelligence #searchengines #technology

Search Engine Roundtable: Study: Adding Schema Did Not Improve AI Citations On Google, ChatGPT & More. “A new study from Ahrefs says that adding schema (structured data) does not and did not boost citations on any of the AI platforms including Google (AI Overviews or AI Mode), ChatGPT and others. ‘Adding schema produced no major uplift in citations on any platform,’ Ahrefs wrote.”

"The search engine is open source with an AGPL license. The sources can be perused at https://git.marginalia.nu/"

https://marginalia-search.com/

This is a good approach. @marginalia's code is currently on GritHub (giveupgithub.org!). But if they move it elsewhere all they need to do is redirect this URL to the new forge, and any links to it will still work. Same if they decide to self-host a forge, then find it too distracting, and move back to third-party hosting.

#Marginalia #SearchEngines #search

Search Engine Land: Condé Nast expects search to become a single-digit of its traffic. “Condé Nast now plans its business ‘as if search is zero’ after years of Google algorithm updates and AI Overviews reducing visits to publisher websites. That’s according to CEO Roger Lynch, who was interviewed on TBPN, the tech media network that bills itself as ‘technology’s daily show’ and was […]

Google denies breaching law by promoting suicide forum linked to 164 UK deaths https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/14/google-law-suicide-forum-online-safety-act-technology #Google #InternetSafety #UkNews #SearchEngines #Internet #Technology

We'll be talking about SEO and AI and stuff in a little over an hour from now (1PM Eastern, 10AM Pacific) on this week's SEO Charity Webinar. Hope you can make a donation even if you cannot watch the live broadcast.

https://www.seocharity.com/upcoming-live-streams

#seo #ai #charity #pets #searchengines #searchengineoptimization #marketing

Spotted on Reddit: SFWDOG, a search engine for subreddits. From the Reddit announcement: “I indexed every subreddit with more than 1k subscribers so you can easily discover new communities. Try it → https://sfwdog.com. Type any query into the search bar, or browse through categories like Lifestyle, Entertainment or just Vibes. Filter by subscriber count to find massive hubs or niche groups.”

NOTE: Had to fix a typo in the title, featured image, and URL ...

Newly published on the SEO Theory Blog: "Foreshadows Of AI Doomsday You Should Know About"

#ai #seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #quantumcomputing #datacenters

https://www.seo-theory.com/foreshadows-of-ai-doomsday-you-should-know-about/

2 days away. You don't have to wait for the Webinar to make a donation and you can browse the library of other Webinars they've already hosted. There should be plenty of time for questions so come one, come all.

#seo #searchengineoptimization #searchengines #ai #webmarketing

https://www.seocharity.com/upcoming-live-streams

Spotted in my RSS feeds: Archivarix Tube Search. From the About page: “Web pages, including YouTube video pages, are routinely captured and preserved by public web archiving initiatives such as the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) and Common Crawl. When a YouTube video becomes unavailable for any reason, the metadata that was previously captured by these archives — including titles, […]

TugaTech announces: xPrivo 4.0 lança índice de pesquisa europeu totalmente independente. https://tugatech.com.pt/t82936-xprivo-4-0-lanca-indice-de-pesquisa-europeu-totalmente-independente #xPrivo #search #SearchEngines

Engadget: Snap’s $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead . “Snap’s $400 million deal with Perplexity to put the AI search engine directly in Snapchat is dead. The two companies ‘amicably ended the relationship’ earlier this year, Snap disclosed in its latest earnings report. “

Retrieval vs Generation: Where Information Comes From https://www.brandonhimpfen.com/retrieval-vs-generation-information-sources/

#ai #artificialintelligence #searchengines

Engadget: Google’s AI search results will now turn to Reddit for expert advice . “Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode, the AI-generated portions of its search engine, to highlight sources in new ways, and interestingly, more prominently feature first-hand accounts from social media, expert blogs and forums like Reddit.” Which you could learn to search yourself.

Search Engine Roundtable: Bing: 1 Billion Monthly Users Are Human, Not Agents. “Microsoft, during its earnings call last week, announced that Bing hit a huge milestone of 1 billion monthly active users. Krishna Madhavan from Microsoft later confirmed these ‘users’ do not include AI agents but are real actual humans.”

Standard SEO advice: "Don't publish more than 1 page in the same search results ..."

WHY? This is the dumbest idea SEO "content marketers" embrace. If you can get a search engine to include 4 pages of your content in the SERP - that means you're DOING SOMETHING RIGHT.

Search engines don't say, "Oh, you sneaky b******! We're going to punish you because WE decided to include 2-4 of your own pages in our SERPs. That's on us."

Don't confuse informative content with spam. Spam is intentional. Informative content lands where the algorithms place it in their search results.

#seo #searchengines #content #searchengineoptimization #contentmarketing #spam

Spotted in my RSS feeds: GovAuctions. From the About page: “GovAuctions lets you search every government surplus auction at once. You can filter by location, category, and price, save items to a watchlist, and get alerts when new auctions match what you’re looking for.”

Yahoo Finance: Alphabet stock rises on Q1 earnings beat, cloud growth. “Google parent Alphabet stock climbed higher Thursday after the company reported better-than-anticipated first quarter results after the bell on Wednesday and strong cloud growth.”

Ask.com shut down May 1, 2026, ending its search service after 25 years under IAC and closing a platform known for natural-language queries via Jeeves 🤖

🔗 https://www.engadget.com/2163129/ask-com-has-shut-down-marking-official-farewell-to-internet-favorite-butler/

#TechNews #AskCom #Ask #SearchEngines #IAC #InternetHistory #AI #Privacy #FOSS #OpenWeb #BigTech #Data #Transparency #DigitalRights #Tech #Innovation

#Suchmaschine ask.com endgültig abgeschaltet | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Suchmaschine-ask-com-endgueltig-abgeschaltet-11279727.html #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116507070547010675

Anyone want to talk about #search / #searchengines?

Popular 90s search engine ‘Ask Jeeves’ finally bites the dust — parent company shutters website that pioneered natural language queries, only a placeholder results page remains

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/popular-90s-search-engine-ask-jeeves-finally-bites-the-dust-parent-company-shutters-website-that-pioneered-natural-language-queries-only-a-placeholder-results-page-remains

Mashable: Ask.com shuts down after 30 years. “Ask.com, originally founded as the Y2K stalwart Ask Jeeves, is officially dead. ‘As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 25 years of answering the world’s questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026,’ the homepage now reads.”