A summary of what actually happened in search during this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site rather than by publication time. Built from our own archive of 551 stories.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
Just a short note this time!
Enhanced mapping accuracy worldwide: Bing Maps completes the global rollout of TomTom Orbis Addresses, with Orbis data now live worldwide — improving coverage, precision, and freshness.
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TL;DR Two types of GBP suspensions: Soft suspensions leave the listing visible but unverified, while hard suspensions remove it entirely from Google Search and Maps, often causing major drops in…
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The Microsoft Rewards Total Prize Drop is officially underway, and it’s bringing the biggest rewards yet. For a limited time, Microsoft Rewards members can enter for a chance to win a $1,000,000 USD…
The DuckDuckGo subscription now comes in two plans: Plus and Pro. The new Pro plan is for people who use AI for demanding tasks. On top of our VPN and other protections, it includes 2x higher usage…
UPDATED 20 March 2026: Shortly after publishing this article, Google Cloud changed how Load Balancer frontend certificate management works. Instead of directly mapping a frontend to a certificate,…
Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.
The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.
