Users are rethinking their search habits in response to rising privacy concerns and the growing influence of AI in mainstream search engines.
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Google is also testing a new pagination bar with page numbers and previous and next icons, instead of the “more search results" button. Bing was recently just testing this too and now I see Google testing it.

Remember the Power Pair from Google Marketing Live 2024? Well, that and several other items of discussion were found in internal emails at Google about the GML 2024 event. It discussed how advertisers were not excited about PMax, there is frustration amongst advertisers, being pushed into fully automated ads and they are just willing to go along with it.

Microsoft is going to do away with the Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs as of August 11, 2025. Microsoft posted a notice on its API documentation pages with this news.

Google is rolling out a new feature for Google Business Profiles named What’s Happening. This feature is for bars or restaurants to better promote events, deals, and specials prominently at the top of their Google Business Profile.

Google is testing adding the ability for you to add your own annotations to the Google Search Console performance reports. This is one of the requests SEOs have been asking for from Google for a long time and now Google is testing this in Search Console.

RT @MikeMartinGB: Stories sell because they stick. Facts fade — Mike Martin (@MikeMartinGB) May 14, 2025 from Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeMartinGB May 14, 2025 at 01:05PM

Create your own ChatGPT agent to streamline your SEO audits and analyze website elements like page structure. Here’s how.
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Bloomreach, the agentic platform for personalization, announced it has partnered with Captain Up, the premier gamification and loyalty platform. This partnership enables iGaming brands to use the combined power of Bloomreach and Captain Up to drive better customer experiences with a blend of real-time player data, AI-powered personalization, and robust gamification. With nearly 60% of […]