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Google's John Mueller Working On Christmas (2025 Edition)
Every year, for the past 18 or so years, Google's John Mueller has been working on Christmas to provide support to those who need help with their Google Search ranking and SEO concerns.
This year is [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Bing: Duplicate & Similar Pages Blur Signals & Weaken SEO & AI Visibility
Fabrice Canel and Krishna Madhavan from the Microsoft Bing team posted a useful blog post named Does Duplicate Content Hurt SEO and AI Search Visibility? The short answer is yes, and the long answer [...]
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Google Reveals The Top Searches Of 2025 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's Year in Search reveals trending actors, movies, athletes, games, recipes, and travel destinations that captured attention throughout 2025.
Search Engine Journal
Why Google is deleting reviews at record levels
Reviews are disappearing faster as moderation systems, industry risk, and geography shape which reviews stay visible.
Search Engine Land
Google lowers audience size limits across Ads
The audience list reduction to 100 users makes it easier for advertisers of all sizes to use remarketing and customer list.
Search Engine Land
Google Search Traffic To News Publishers Drops From 51% To 27%
Google Search has been sending 25 percentage points less traffic to news publishers over the past two years, according to the folks over at Newzdash. In 2023, Google Web Search made up over 51% of [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Expands Ads In AI Overviews To More Countries But Not For Sensitive Verticals
Google quietly updated its AI Overviews ad documentation to say that ads in AI Overviews are supported in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, [...]
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NEW ChatGPT Ads May Prioritize Sponsored Content In AI Responses
A report from The Information outlined a number of avenues OpenAI is looking at for ad formats in ChatGPT.
The main one that is reportedly being thrown around at the AI company is to show sponsored [...]
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Google Pushes Timeline For Gemini Replacing Assistant Into 2026
Anish Kattukaran, CPO at Google Home & Nest announced in the Google Gemini forums that Gemini will not be replacing Google Assistant by the end of 2025.
He wrote, "We're adjusting our [...]
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60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2025
Look back on Google AI news in 2025 across Gemini, Search, Pixel and more products.
Google expands Performance Max channel reporting to MCCs
Google's latest update gives large advertisers clearer, cross-account insight into how PMax allocates spend and performs across channels.
Search Engine Land
OpenAI discusses an ad-driven strategy centered on ChatGPT scale and media partnerships
OpenAI’s move toward ads in AI responses could create a new, highly contextual channel for advertisers while reshaping digital marketing.
Search Engine Land
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 23, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google Search Bar Tests Teases For AI Mode With Animation In Box
Google is testing prefilling the search bar in a new Chrome tab, with teasers to encourage you to search deeper with AI Mode. Google is putting in the search box, "Research a topic," [...]
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Report: Google Deleting Local Reviews More Than Ever
GMBapi posted data that looks at tens of thousands of Google Business Profiles across multiple countries and showed that review deletions have increased significantly over the year, compared to [...]
Search Engine Roundtable