It's hard to imagine life without Google. The internet as we know it is built around search engines, and Google is the biggest of them all. In 2024, Google was the primary search engine for 76% of ...

Google has agreed to pay a fine of $55 million AUD ($36 million USD) for anticompetitive practices, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced. It stems from deals Google ...

Google’s role in everyday information seeking is shrinking, while AI tools – particularly ChatGPT – are quickly gaining ground. That’s according to a new Higher Visibility survey of 1,500 U.S. users.

To set Preferred Sources on Google Search, sign in, go to Google.com, click your profile icon, select Search Personalization, then Source Preferences. Search for or enter a site’s URL, enable it, and ...

Google's Barry Pollard explains why CrUX and Search Console often report different Core Web Vitals results. Learn how page-view vs. URL-level methods lead to mismatches. CrUX reports user experience ...

Google confirms no conversion minimums for AI Max for Search, but Smart Bidding is required for search-term matching. AI Max has no conversion minimums Smart Bidding is required for search-term ...

While I think SEOs spend way too much time and effort on Core Web Vitals, many do ask why does the Google Chrome UX report often not match what is shown in the Google Search Console core web vitals ...

Google Ads is giving long-requested transparency. You can now see site-level impressions for Google Ads Search, Shopping, and App campaigns. Advertisers can now see exactly where their Search, ...

It has been week after week of intensely heated Google search ranking volatility, and it is time I start reporting when the volatility cools or calms down. Well, this weekend we had a bit of a cooling ...

When you want to find information online, where do you go? For a long time, Google was the answer. The search giant has become so embedded in modern culture that we use “to Google” as a verb. But ...

Search engine giant Google announced earlier this week that it will start allowing users to customize their Google news experience by manually designating which sources they prefer to see more of. The ...