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FYI: 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 #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

FYI: 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 #searchengines #digitalmarketing #SEO

SearXNG is a free open source self-hostable search engine which fetches its results from major search engines that you have configured it to use. More info about it on its website at:

🌱 https://searxng.org

If you're moderately techy you can self-host it via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng

If you're very techy manual installation instructions are at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html

(By the way, SearXNG is a fork of SearX. SearX is no longer maintained.)

#SelfHosting #SearchEngines #FOSS

SearXNG is a free open source self-hostable search engine which fetches its results from major search engines that you have configured it to use. More info about it on its website at:

🌱 https://searxng.org

If you're moderately techy you can self-host it via @yunohost at https://apps.yunohost.org/app/searxng

If you're very techy manual installation instructions are at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/index.html

(By the way, SearXNG is a fork of SearX. SearX is no longer maintained.)

#SelfHosting #SearchEngines #FOSS

ICYMI: 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 #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

ICYMI: 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 #AIChatbots #SearchEngines

ICYMI: 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/ #SearchEngines #GoogleRivals #AIChatbots #DataDelivery #SEO

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

The Register: The search company that plants trees just launched a Linux browser to help Europe battle big tech. “Berlin-based eco-conscious search outfit Ecosia is expanding its range of European-focused web browsers to include a Linux version, citing the growing number of users in the EU looking for open alternatives to the clutches of American tech giants.”

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

Search Engine Land: The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year. “Google Analytics 4 (GA4) became mandatory on July 1, 2023, when standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing new data. Less than a year later, on May 14, 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews to U.S. users. The timing matters: The industry lost a clean, comparable measurement baseline […]

„Größte Verschlechterung seit 29 Jahren“: #Google :google: passt für Europa die Suche an | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Groesste-Verschlechterung-seit-29-Jahren-Google-passt-fuer-Europa-die-Suche-an-11446040.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

„Größte Verschlechterung seit 29 Jahren“: #Google :google: passt für Europa die Suche an | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/Groesste-Verschlechterung-seit-29-Jahren-Google-passt-fuer-Europa-die-Suche-an-11446040.html #DMA #DigitalMarketsAct #GoogleSuche #GoogleSearch #SearchEngine #SearchEngines

I'm only trying to influence you to read this thing I wrote. I spent nearly fifteen minutes on it! So, c'mon!

Check out a random #blogpost called "Worth It"

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/09/worth-it/

#Blog #SocialMedia #BloggingForFun #SearchEngines

I'm only trying to influence you to read this thing I wrote. I spent nearly fifteen minutes on it! So, c'mon!

Check out a random #blogpost called "Worth It"

https://8clicks.8r4d.com/2026/09/worth-it/

#Blog #SocialMedia #BloggingForFun #SearchEngines

@futurebird

Have you seen https://marginalia-search.com/

And also the modern version of the former dmoz directory, now https://curlie.org/about.html

#SearchEngines

@futurebird

Have you seen https://marginalia-search.com/

And also the modern version of the former dmoz directory, now https://curlie.org/about.html

#SearchEngines

Global News: Privacy watchdog takes Google to court over ‘right to be forgotten’ case. “Canada’s privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog’s recommendations. The privacy commissioner’s office said a year ago that Google wouldn’t implement its recommendation to de-list specific […]

Private Internet Access: The Search Engine Privacy Index: What Every Search Engine Really Knows About You. “Interest in privacy-focused engines has particularly grown in recent years. After Google’s AI-heavy search changes in May 2026, DuckDuckGo reported a sharp rise in app installs across the U.S., peaking at 30.5% daily growth. That shift led us at Private Internet Access to review the […]

#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

How Important Is SEO in an AI-Powered Internet?

https://kierendaystudiosofficial.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/how-important-is-seo-in-an-ai-powered-internet/

Will AI Replace Google Search?

https://kierendaystudiosofficial.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/will-ai-replace-google-search/

Published at #IRRJ: "Much Ado about Accessibility: An Exploration of Online Content Accessibility from an Autism-Informed Perspective" by Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera. #TextAnalysis, #Autism, #WebAccessibility, #SearchEngines, #LLMs

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.25297

Kagi Blog: An update on Kagi Translate. “Some of you might have noticed that Translate no longer works when you’re signed out, or that it shows as offline. This is because we have temporarily turned off free access while we work through the cost of running Translate. If you have an active subscription, Translate still works.”

How the Reputation Firm Terakeet Failed to Fix an Epstein Friend’s Image

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/us/politics/epstein-reummler-reputation-management.html

Search Engine Land: Can a fake brand win in AI search? New experiment says yes. “We wanted to look beyond rankings and understand how AI systems discover, interpret, and cite information. So we expanded the project into a more ambitious set of experiments on AI search and LLM visibility. For the next phase, we created a new fictional brand in a real niche with real competition to see how […]

NO - click data is NOT a "primary ranking factor". The SEO community needs to move on from this nonsense. Ex-Googler Vanessa Fox explained all this stuff that "came out" in the Google anti-trust trial IN 2012 on SearchEngineLand.

"Google uses all kinds of signals to determine that you want the Beautiful Day video when you type in the letters “U2”, but certainly one strong signal is what previous searchers have wanted. Google has data on all of the millions of times searchers have looked for U2 in the past and know how many of them paired that search with (or later refined it with) 'video' or 'beautiful day' and also knows how often U2 searchers clicked on videos show in the search results. If Google started showing video, but searchers never clicked on those results, they might stop showing them; if every searcher clicked the video over a web page, they might start showing more video in results."

#seo #google #ctr #clickdata #navboost #searchengineoptimization #algorithms #searchengines

https://searchengineland.com/is-googles-synonym-matching-increasing-how-searchers-and-brands-can-be-both-helped-and-hurt-131504

Search Engine Land: Most ChatGPT links get 0% CTR – even highly visible ones. “Newly revealed data exposes how little traffic ChatGPT drives to publishers. Spoiler alert: The gap between visibility and clicks is huge. A leaked file reveals the user interactions that OpenAI is tracking, including how often ChatGPT displays publisher links and how few users actually click on them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/19/search-engine-land-most-chatgpt-links-get-0-ctr-even-highly-visible-ones/

Search Engine Land: Google AI Overviews drive 61% drop in organic CTR, 68% in paid. “Organic click-through rates (CTR) for informational queries featuring Google AI Overviews fell 61% since mid-2024, while paid CTRs on those same queries plunged 68%, according to the latest study by marketing agency Seer Interactive.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/06/search-engine-land-google-ai-overviews-drive-61-drop-in-organic-ctr-68-in-paid/

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/

One of the most repulsive things you can find on the web are marketing disguised as tech blog posts. You search for stuff, then find something that looks like a useful blog post in the topic.

It starts by showing you how to do things you searched for using common tools. Once it has solidified your confidence, it lists the product to sell as the most viable option.

This is unethical. 🤮

For people using search engines, it is annoying and frustrating.

For others who rely on Copilot, ChatGPT etc., it's a perfect trap. AIs seem to be unable to tell marketing and facts aside, and the readers won't see the source, to realize the intention behind the article.

💡 An ideal search engine should downrank sites for posting any form of disguised marketing as delivering such results would undermine the reliability of the search engine itself.

💡 Also, a well working AI would not use such sites as source as to avoid damaging its own reputation.

Strangely, all common search engines and AIs gladly deliver false results, especially if they are paid for it, and most of the users are not aware of it.

The problem is that unbiased search engines and AIs, if they even exist, have a great disadvantage because they have to compete with competitors that make more money by deceiving users. 😤

#searchengines #ai #techmarketing #ranting

One of the most repulsive things you can find on the web are marketing disguised as tech blog posts. You search for stuff, then find something that looks like a useful blog post in the topic.

It starts by showing you how to do things you searched for using common tools. Once it has solidified your confidence, it lists the product to sell as the most viable option.

This is unethical. 🤮

For people using search engines, it is annoying and frustrating.

For others who rely on Copilot, ChatGPT etc., it's a perfect trap. AIs seem to be unable to tell marketing and facts aside, and the readers won't see the source, to realize the intention behind the article.

💡 An ideal search engine should downrank sites for posting any form of disguised marketing as delivering such results would undermine the reliability of the search engine itself.

💡 Also, a well working AI would not use such sites as source as to avoid damaging its own reputation.

Strangely, all common search engines and AIs gladly deliver false results, especially if they are paid for it, and most of the users are not aware of it.

The problem is that unbiased search engines and AIs, if they even exist, have a great disadvantage because they have to compete with competitors that make more money by deceiving users. 😤

#searchengines #ai #techmarketing #ranting

One of the most repulsive things you can find on the web are marketing disguised as tech blog posts. You search for stuff, then find something that looks like a useful blog post in the topic.

It starts by showing you how to do things you searched for using common tools. Once it has solidified your confidence, it lists the product to sell as the most viable option.

This is unethical. 🤮

For people using search engines, it is annoying and frustrating.

For others who rely on Copilot, ChatGPT etc., it's a perfect trap. AIs seem to be unable to tell marketing and facts aside, and the readers won't see the source, to realize the intention behind the article.

💡 An ideal search engine should downrank sites for posting any form of disguised marketing as delivering such results would undermine the reliability of the search engine itself.

💡 Also, a well working AI would not use such sites as source as to avoid damaging its own reputation.

Strangely, all common search engines and AIs gladly deliver false results, especially if they are paid for it, and most of the users are not aware of it.

The problem is that unbiased search engines and AIs, if they even exist, have a great disadvantage because they have to compete with competitors that make more money by deceiving users. 😤

#searchengines #ai #techmarketing #ranting

Search Engine Land: Bing pushes ad-heavy search results with 7+ sponsored listings. “Microsoft Bing appears to be testing an aggressive new ad display format that dramatically reduces organic search visibility in favor of sponsored content.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/search-engine-land-bing-pushes-ad-heavy-search-results-with-7-sponsored-listings/

Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google - Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial inte... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/bo39Lxzyao8/ #artificialintelligence #salesforceeinstein #richardsocher #searchengines #marcbenioff #salesforce #startups #privacy #social #google #tc

Censys, a search engine for internet devices, raises $15.5M Series A - Internet device search engine Censys is one of the biggest search engines you’ve probably never hear... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/LUcc4mPo1h8/ #computersecurity #greylockpartners #informationage #searchengines #searchengine #smartdevices #computing #security #startups #annarbor #michigan #dugsong