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.
As we mentioned a few months ago, we are bringing the Search Central Live Deep Dive format to the EMEA region. This SCL format requires finding the absolute best home for the event—a place…
Search is changing what discovery means for retail brands. That is true for every retailer, but it is especially true for premium retailers. If you are not trying to win every shopper on price,…
E-commerce
Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools introduces four expanded AI performance capabilites in preview: Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare, enhancing publishers' understanding of AI-generated…
Ranking & Algorithms AI Search & Visibility
Spotlight on BILD Our “spotlight case studies” give you a quick look at a…
SERP Features
This month's Brave Rewards Partner Program update introduces six new partners and shares milestones from existing ones, expanding how users can earn, spend, and use BAT across gaming, shopping,…
E-commerce
How startups, digital goliaths, and everything in-between, use AI to grow online.
Google just published documentation on what they're calling the Open Knowledge Format (OKF). It represents a standardized way for agents to access knowledge via very simple directories of Markdown…
Chrome DevTools for agents introduces third-party developer tools, which lets frameworks and applications share rich, runtime context with AI coding assistants.
Research in “Nature” shows our conversational AI system matches primary care physicians in complex disease management.
Immediates and stricter validation for transient attachments.
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.
