#searchengines — Public Fediverse posts

Google loses fight to strip 90%+ of unique queries from EU rivals' data: Rival engines and AI chatbots get daily records, NUTS 3 location and 5-year access at cost-based prices. What does the full text show about Alphabet's campaign? https://ppc.land/google-loses-fight-to-strip-90-of-unique-queries-from-eu-rivals-data/ #Google #EURegulations #DataPrivacy #AI #SearchEngines

Searches with words used by under 50 people won't reach Google rivals: Rival engines and AI chatbots only get records where 1,000 signed-in users share region, device and language. First data deliveries could come in early 2027. https://ppc.land/searches-with-words-used-by-under-50-people-wont-reach-google-rivals/ #Google #AI #Chatbots #SearchEngines #DataDelivery

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Ars Technica: Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink. “As the world’s largest search engine, Google is often a target of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which seeks to rein in Big Tech. The European Commission hit Google with a hefty 460 million euro ($543 million) fine in July for preferring its own services in searches for travel and shopping. […]

Calishat: Local News America Gets Faster Search and Smushed Bugs. “Local News America aggregates the RSS feeds of over 1000 local news sources and makes them searchable by keyword and/or browsable by state with links back to the original content. About a dozen topic feeds (including data centers, activism, and local / federal government) are also available. (The site doesn’t scrape the web […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Blames Website For Race Based AI Overview Response. “Normally, I wouldn’t cover political topics like this, but with Google trying to copyright its search results, including AI Overview responses, I thought it was appropriate. Google responded to complaints about a race-based AI Overview answer, blaming the websites it sourced, rather than taking credit for the […]

Engadget: Reddit’s CEO sure seems frustrated with Google’s AI overviews . “You can add Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to the growing list of publishers, platforms and others who are frustrated with the state of Google search and AI Overviews. ‘People don’t want a summary of Reddit; they want Reddit,’ he wrote in a letter to shareholders ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings call.”

#Ecosia ( @ecosia ) und #Qwant ( @Qwant ) starten deutschen #Webindex | c't Magazin https://www.heise.de/news/Ecosia-und-Qwant-starten-deutschen-Webindex-11383500.html #DigitalSovereignty #SearchIndex #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #Suchmaschine #Suchmaschinen

Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Ads Revenue Up 10%. “Microsoft reported its fourth-quarter 2026 earnings, showing that its search and advertising revenue was up 10%, indicating its ad growth was 2 points lower than the previous quarter. The previous quarter it was up 12%, before that up 10% before that, up 16% and the one before that was 21% and this quarter, it is only up 10%.”

Reuters: Yandex reports 16% increase in Q2 revenue, recommends H1 dividend at 110 rbls/share. “Russia’s largest internet-company, Yandex , posts ​a 16% increase in ‌revenue to 386 billion roubles ($4.89 billion) for the ​second quarter of 2026.”

Mashable: Googling ‘Jimothy’ brings up an unexpected surprise. “On Tuesday, Threads users noticed that Jimothy’s fame has now been acknowledged by the search engine gods — namely, he has his own Google animation.”

Calishat: Adding Two New Tools to SearchTweaks.com. “I don’t know about y’all but I am having my usual wild Friday night working on my search tools. I’ve just added two new tools to SearchTweaks.com; if you do any local news searching I think you’ll really like at least one of them. Like all of the site they are free to use and free of ads….SearchTweaks is a collection of 19 tools for […]

This is interesting: @EUCommission is making Google unlock their AI assistant key bindings so it can be changed to other providers - no Gemini as default - and also provide search data to other search engines.

🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1634

This is progress - a step in the right direction - now do Apple too.

#Google #EC #EuropeanCommission #AI #Android #Mobile #iPhone #Apple #Gemini #GoogleGemini #Law #EULaw #SearchEngines

Calishat: Search by Year (1995+) and State News Sources: Peabody Search. “I made Peabody Search, named after Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine. He could set his time machine to go to a particular year and place, and that’s what this tool does as well (though it’s restricted to US states.) Peabody Search walks you through the process of setting the query, selecting the years, choosing a […]

Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/business/media/wikipedia-ai-elon-musk.html

Calishat: Super Edu Search, Powered By Diffbot. “Super Edu Search 1.0 aggregated sets of domains and presented them as Google search URLs because I can’t afford Google’s search API and that was a free workaround. But Diffbot’s API is free and so I can integrate its search results into the tool…. Since this result integration seemed like it would be useful to researchers, I added the […]

Calishat: Upgrading BlogHiking.com: More Results, Site Muting. “I spent some time over the weekend working on my blog search tool Blog Hiking. I’m happy to report it’s more powerful than before and has a couple of new features.”

Calishat: Three Search Alternatives to Google’s Brave New AI World. “Google has made what I consider to be the terrible decision to go all-in on AI in search and there’s little I can do personally against that decision. Still, I can make alternatives. I can express my ideas in tools that I share with you. I can at least try to hold space for the idea that there are ways to perform queries and […]

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/20/googles-ask-youtube-feature-might-do-for-creators-what-ai-overviews-did-for-web-publishers-xcxwbn/

After AI Overviews Hit Publishers, Google’s Ask YouTube May Come for Creators

#AI #AskYouTube #YouTube #Google #AlphabetInc #AISearch #GoogleSearch #SearchEngines

A teacher asked 7th graders the worst part of the 80s, and their answers have us howling

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/students-answer-questions-ex1/

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.”

Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Ads Revenue Up 12% – 1 Billion Monthly Action Users Milestone. “Microsoft reported its third quarter 2026 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up for 12% and that means its ad growth is growing again. The previous quarter it was up 10% before that, up 16% and the one before that was 21% and this quarter, it is only up 10%.”

Reuters: China’s Baidu revenue falls as AI cloud growth fails to offset ad weakness. “China’s largest search engine operator Baidu reported a 4% revenue drop for its December quarter on Thursday, ‌as persistent weakness in its mainstay advertising business offset strong growth in its ‌cloud business.”

A teacher asked 7th graders the worst part of the 80s, and their answers have us howling

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/students-answer-questions-ex1

Lifehacker: Microsoft Is Trying to Trick You Into Using Copilot. “If you use Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, you’ll find many different options for interacting with Copilot. You can click the big Copilot button next to the search bar, or deal with the enormous ‘Copilot Answer’ that appears at the top of any given search result, à la AI Overviews. But if you try to use Bing to search for […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/05/lifehacker-microsoft-is-trying-to-trick-you-into-using-copilot/

How modern Mountweasels could block generative AI and undermine access to knowledge

Last week, an interesting problem with the generative AI system ChatGPT emerged, reported here by Ars Technica:

people discovered that the name “David Mayer” breaks ChatGPT. 404 Media also discovered that the names “Jonathan Zittrain” and “Jonathan Turley” caused ChatGPT to cut conversations short. And we know another name, likely the first, that started the practice last year: Brian Hood. […]

#AccessToKnowledge #ai #blocking #chatgpt #defamation #genai #mountweasel #searchEngines

https://walledculture.org/how-modern-mountweasels-could-block-generative-ai-and-undermine-access-to-knowledge/

#OpenAI testet KI-#Suchmaschine #SearchGPT | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/OpenAI-testet-KI-Suchmaschine-SearchGPT-9814049.html #ArtificialIntelligence #SearchEngine #SearchEngines #Suchmaschinen #SEO #SearchEngineOptimization #Suchmaschinenoptimierung

Today I saw for the first time a Google 3-pack with (shortened) star ratings directly on the map.

When you zoom in on the map, more results are displayed with their respective rating.

This should be quite helpful for searchers, who want to get a quick overview of where the high-rating businesses are located in a given area. 🔎

#SEO #search #google #GoogleMaps #SearchEngines #LocalSEO #LocalSearch #StarRating

In this guide, create your methodology for finding keywords none of your competitors have even thought about.

Tangential SEO: Finding Keywords for Content No One Else Has https://www.searchenginejournal.com/tangential-seo/487279/

#SEO #WebDesign #Keywords #KeywordResearch #SearchEngines

Google and Facebook must pay media for content reuse, says Australia - The Australia government has said it will adopt a mandatory code to require tech giants such as Goog... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/WVKCK7MozYc/ #competitionandmarketsauthority #subscriptionservices #onlineadvertising #advertisingtech #onlineplatforms #europeanunion #onlinecontent #searchengines #unitedkingdom #searchengine #localsearch #newzealand #australia #facebook #france #google #media

US search market needs a ‘choice screen’ remedy now, says DuckDuckGo - US regulators shouldn’t be sitting on their hands while the 50+ state, federal and congressional ant... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/w0kAlM2QSOs/ #margrethevestager #competitionlaw #europeanunion #searchengines #searchresults #googlesearch #searchengine #unitedstates #localsearch #duckduckgo #antitrust #australia #android #europe #google #russia #search #yandex #qwant #apps

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