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  1. Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/07/google-verifying-your-request-to-continue-to-search-results-search-engine-roundtable/
  2. Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/07/google-verifying-your-request-to-continue-to-search-results-search-engine-roundtable/
  3. Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/07/google-verifying-your-request-to-continue-to-search-results-search-engine-roundtable/
  4. Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/07/google-verifying-your-request-to-continue-to-search-results-search-engine-roundtable/
  5. Search Engine Roundtable: Google: Verifying Your Request To Continue To Search Results. “In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to click a ‘Continue’ button after a few seconds, after Google verifies […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/07/google-verifying-your-request-to-continue-to-search-results-search-engine-roundtable/
  6. Search Engine Journal: Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source. “A recent analysis by Ahrefs shows that public Facebook Groups are now the second most common site in Google’s Discussions and forums module, after Reddit. Facebook appears in 38.3% of the search results where the module shows up, with all Facebook URLs coming from public Groups.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/search-engine-journal-facebook-groups-are-googles-no-2-forum-source/
  7. Search Engine Journal: Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source. “A recent analysis by Ahrefs shows that public Facebook Groups are now the second most common site in Google’s Discussions and forums module, after Reddit. Facebook appears in 38.3% of the search results where the module shows up, with all Facebook URLs coming from public Groups.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/search-engine-journal-facebook-groups-are-googles-no-2-forum-source/
  8. Search Engine Journal: Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source. “A recent analysis by Ahrefs shows that public Facebook Groups are now the second most common site in Google’s Discussions and forums module, after Reddit. Facebook appears in 38.3% of the search results where the module shows up, with all Facebook URLs coming from public Groups.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/search-engine-journal-facebook-groups-are-googles-no-2-forum-source/
  9. Search Engine Journal: Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source. “A recent analysis by Ahrefs shows that public Facebook Groups are now the second most common site in Google’s Discussions and forums module, after Reddit. Facebook appears in 38.3% of the search results where the module shows up, with all Facebook URLs coming from public Groups.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/search-engine-journal-facebook-groups-are-googles-no-2-forum-source/
  10. Search Engine Journal: Facebook Groups Are Google’s No. 2 Forum Source. “A recent analysis by Ahrefs shows that public Facebook Groups are now the second most common site in Google’s Discussions and forums module, after Reddit. Facebook appears in 38.3% of the search results where the module shows up, with all Facebook URLs coming from public Groups.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/05/search-engine-journal-facebook-groups-are-googles-no-2-forum-source/
  11. I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

    "Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

    "Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

    "User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

    "Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

    "Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-08 ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

    This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US11 )

    #google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

    seo-theory.com/how-to-read-pat

  12. I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

    "Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

    "Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

    "User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

    "Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

    "Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-08 ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

    This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US11 )

    #google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

    seo-theory.com/how-to-read-pat

  13. I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

    "Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

    "Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

    "User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

    "Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

    "Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-08 ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

    This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US11 )

    #google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

    seo-theory.com/how-to-read-pat

  14. I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

    "Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

    "Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

    "User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

    "Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

    "Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-08 ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

    This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US11 )

    #google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

    seo-theory.com/how-to-read-pat

  15. I posted this about a year ago. Might be a good time to repost it.

    "Search With Stateful Chat" patent (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - appears to describe the Gemini app for smartphones.

    "Method for Text Ranking with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an experimental process described in this research paper titled "Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2306.17563 ). There is no indication this was introduced into a live agentic system like Gemini.

    "User Embedding Models for Personalization of Sequence Processing Models" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - documents an experimental process for improving recommender (sub-)systems (like movie searches) that incorporate large language models. The process is described in this research paper titled "User Embedding Model for Personalized Language Prompting" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2401.04858 ).

    "Systems and methods for prompt-based query generation for diverse retrieval" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/WO20 ) - updates a 2022 patent for a process named PROMPTAGATOR that generates queries more efficiently based on a small number of examples, as described in this research paper titled "Promptagator - Few-shot Dense Retrieval from 8 Examples" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2209.11755 ). This could be used to generate query fan-outs (but query fan-out has been used in multiple systems at least since the 1990s, so there are many implementations).

    "Instruction Fine-Tuning Machine-Learned Models Using Intermediate Reasoning Steps" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US20 ) - documents an older method for fine-tuning instructions submitted to LLMs, as described in this 2022 research paper titled "Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models" (Cf. jmlr.org/papers/volume25/23-08 ). The work has been superseded by this paper titled "Mixture-of-Experts Meets Instruction Tuning: A Winning Combination for Large Language Models" (Cf. arxiv.org/pdf/2305.14705 ).

    This is the AI Overviews patent, titled "Generative summaries for search results" (Cf. patents.google.com/patent/US11 )

    #google #aioverviews #aimode #machinelearning #search #searchengines #generativesearch #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #ai #patents

    seo-theory.com/how-to-read-pat

  16. No, informational content is NOT dead. The SEO industry is getting ridiculous with all this fear-mongering.

    The outright hypocrisy from all these SEO Chicken Littles crying "the information Web is dead!" with their informational articles, videos, and long social media posts is the best clue about whom NOT to trust with your Web marketing.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #ai #search #searchengines #google #bing

  17. No, informational content is NOT dead. The SEO industry is getting ridiculous with all this fear-mongering.

    The outright hypocrisy from all these SEO Chicken Littles crying "the information Web is dead!" with their informational articles, videos, and long social media posts is the best clue about whom NOT to trust with your Web marketing.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #ai #search #searchengines #google #bing

  18. No, informational content is NOT dead. The SEO industry is getting ridiculous with all this fear-mongering.

    The outright hypocrisy from all these SEO Chicken Littles crying "the information Web is dead!" with their informational articles, videos, and long social media posts is the best clue about whom NOT to trust with your Web marketing.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #ai #search #searchengines #google #bing

  19. No, informational content is NOT dead. The SEO industry is getting ridiculous with all this fear-mongering.

    The outright hypocrisy from all these SEO Chicken Littles crying "the information Web is dead!" with their informational articles, videos, and long social media posts is the best clue about whom NOT to trust with your Web marketing.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #ai #search #searchengines #google #bing

  20. No, informational content is NOT dead. The SEO industry is getting ridiculous with all this fear-mongering.

    The outright hypocrisy from all these SEO Chicken Littles crying "the information Web is dead!" with their informational articles, videos, and long social media posts is the best clue about whom NOT to trust with your Web marketing.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #ai #search #searchengines #google #bing

  21. Google didn't force Websites to load their pages with SEO bullshit.

    The SEO community did that to the Web.

    Yes, Google ranked the SEO bullshit, but it was always a choice in the first place on the part of Website publishers to accept that bullshit.

    For all its faults, Wikipedia continues to outrank many of these sites without all the SEO fakery and flim-flammery.

    So when I see people ranting about how Google "forced" all the crap onto the Web I just want to gag.

    Google just took whatever you fools gave it and ranked it for you because if all you create is crap then all the search engine can do is index and rank the crap.

    Don't blame Google for what YOU chose to do with your Web copy.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #google #search #searchengines

  22. Google didn't force Websites to load their pages with SEO bullshit.

    The SEO community did that to the Web.

    Yes, Google ranked the SEO bullshit, but it was always a choice in the first place on the part of Website publishers to accept that bullshit.

    For all its faults, Wikipedia continues to outrank many of these sites without all the SEO fakery and flim-flammery.

    So when I see people ranting about how Google "forced" all the crap onto the Web I just want to gag.

    Google just took whatever you fools gave it and ranked it for you because if all you create is crap then all the search engine can do is index and rank the crap.

    Don't blame Google for what YOU chose to do with your Web copy.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #google #search #searchengines

  23. Google didn't force Websites to load their pages with SEO bullshit.

    The SEO community did that to the Web.

    Yes, Google ranked the SEO bullshit, but it was always a choice in the first place on the part of Website publishers to accept that bullshit.

    For all its faults, Wikipedia continues to outrank many of these sites without all the SEO fakery and flim-flammery.

    So when I see people ranting about how Google "forced" all the crap onto the Web I just want to gag.

    Google just took whatever you fools gave it and ranked it for you because if all you create is crap then all the search engine can do is index and rank the crap.

    Don't blame Google for what YOU chose to do with your Web copy.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #google #search #searchengines

  24. Google didn't force Websites to load their pages with SEO bullshit.

    The SEO community did that to the Web.

    Yes, Google ranked the SEO bullshit, but it was always a choice in the first place on the part of Website publishers to accept that bullshit.

    For all its faults, Wikipedia continues to outrank many of these sites without all the SEO fakery and flim-flammery.

    So when I see people ranting about how Google "forced" all the crap onto the Web I just want to gag.

    Google just took whatever you fools gave it and ranked it for you because if all you create is crap then all the search engine can do is index and rank the crap.

    Don't blame Google for what YOU chose to do with your Web copy.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #google #search #searchengines

  25. Google didn't force Websites to load their pages with SEO bullshit.

    The SEO community did that to the Web.

    Yes, Google ranked the SEO bullshit, but it was always a choice in the first place on the part of Website publishers to accept that bullshit.

    For all its faults, Wikipedia continues to outrank many of these sites without all the SEO fakery and flim-flammery.

    So when I see people ranting about how Google "forced" all the crap onto the Web I just want to gag.

    Google just took whatever you fools gave it and ranked it for you because if all you create is crap then all the search engine can do is index and rank the crap.

    Don't blame Google for what YOU chose to do with your Web copy.

    #seo #searchengineoptimization #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #google #search #searchengines

  26. Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-04-26

    I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to choose from. 1. Why I Built Bubbles (Ben at Bubbles Blog. March 26, 2026.) I've been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS only shows you sources you already know. New voices don't find you there. I added Bubbles' Daily Briefing to my feed reader to find new articles of interest. Nevertheless, I offer my qualified disagreement with the […]

    social.emucafe.org/naferrell/p

  27. Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-22-26

    I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break. Article Links 1. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore (Amanda Siberlin for TechCrunch. May 21, 2026.) This is a fair list but the article misses some nuance about the sources used by Startpage and Ecosia. I would add Mojeek to the selection. 2. Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump […]

    social.emucafe.org/naferrell/p

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

    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

  29. #TIL that longstanding CC image search engine #PixaBay can now be used to search for other kinds of media, including music;

    pixabay.com/music/

    #CC #CCMusic #SearchEngines #CreativeCommons #search

  30. Search Engine Journal: Brave Introduces Ask Brave, A Unified AI Search Interface. “Brave is rolling out Ask Brave, a unified search tool that combines AI chat features with regular search results. It’s accessible on all browsers via the Brave Search homepage.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/02/search-engine-journal-brave-introduces-ask-brave-a-unified-ai-search-interface/

  31. 404 Media: Google and Amazon AI Say Hitler’s Mein Kampf Is ‘a True Work of Art’. “Google’s featured snippet is pulling in an Amazon AI summary of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf that calls it ‘a true work of art’ in the latest AI-related fuckup affecting top search results.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/24/404-media-google-and-amazon-ai-say-hitlers-mein-kampf-is-a-true-work-of-art/

  32. Research PSA:

    ChatGPT is not Google, people.
    Even Google is not Google.

    I am finding relevant hits for my searches on the 8th page of Google Books. And then along comes someone like "ChatGPT told me about this folktale..."

    Doesn't exist.

    #AI #research #searchengines #ChatGPT #StorytellingPSA

  33. Is DuckDuckGo having another outage?
    Trying to work out if the problem is at this end or theirs.

    Fortunately got @Mojeek, so can still search. But curious as to what's going on.
    mojeek.com/
    #DuckDuckGo #mojeek #SearchEngines #outage #IsItDown

  34. Judge rules against users suing Google and Apple over “annoying” search results - Enlarge (credit: SOPA Images / Contributor | LightRocket)

    Whil... - arstechnica.com/?p=2001666 #onlineadvertising #searchengines #antitrustlaw #onlinesearch #sundarpichai #defaultdeal #shermanact #antitrust #timcook #policy #google #safari #apple

  35. ⭐️ OpenSearch #AdventCalendar Tip 1
    Search operators help get more accurate search results in most search engines:

    🔴 Plus sign +
    Used to connect several search words. Today, you can simply write those in the search field.

    🔴 Minus sign -
    Lets you exclude search results.

    🔴 Inverted Commas "..."
    For specific groups of words in a certain order or a word in exact spelling.

    ⬇️ More tips:
    opensearchfoundation.org/en/ad

    #AdventCalendar #OpenWebSearch #SafeSearch #SearchEngines