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 523 stories.
Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.
The update took 2.5 days to roll out and is now complete.
Ranking & Algorithms
The update will take a few days to roll out.
Ranking & Algorithms
When users didn’t know whether an image was AI-generated, the images we tested did not create any perception penalty compared to stock photos.
Content & Quality Policy & Penalties
OpenAI launches an initiative to strengthen democratic oversight of AI in national security, supporting government institutions with tools, training, and expertise.
New personalization features across Search, Discover, and Google News give you even more control.
With a fixed deadline and design resources committed elsewhere, Stampli used Codex and ChatGPT Work to compress weeks of launch production into days.
Here’s how you can use Google Search tools to study for classes and standardized tests.
OpenAI is strengthening monitoring, alignment, and security for frontier AI models. See how new safeguards are guiding the pace of model development.
AI is reshaping cybersecurity for attackers and defenders alike. Learn how OpenAI is strengthening its defenses and what security teams can do now.
Website marketing in 2026 no longer works the way it used to. Traditionally, it meant promoting your site to attract visitors and turn them into customers. Your website is still central. But much of…
TL;DR Brands are measuring AI visibility without tracking if the perception of their brand is even accurate We recommend building a brand canon, which tracks facts, differentiators, brand claims,…
Ranking & Algorithms
Does 2026 signal a lasting acceleration in U.S. ecommerce spending, or is it an outlier?
E-commerce
Assembled from our own archive of 523 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.
