Reddit looks to AI search as its next big opportunity

During the company's fourth-quarter earnings call on Thursday, it offered an update on its plans to merge traditional and AI ...
PCMag

Practice Safe Browsing: 6 Ways to Protect Yourself While Watching Porn Online

I've been writing and editing stories for almost two decades that help people use technology and productivity techniques to ...

Google Antigravity & Stitch Build a Real AI Applications : No Code Workflows

Agentic Postgres from Tiger Data offers persistent memory and BM25 search, helping you build faster and add Stripe payments ...
The Hacker News

China-Linked UAT-8099 Targets IIS Servers in Asia with BadIIS SEO Malware

Cisco Talos links China-based UAT-8099 to IIS server attacks using BadIIS malware for regional SEO fraud, targeting Thailand ...

Inside SearchGuard: How Google detects bots and what the SerpAPI lawsuit reveals

We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots apart.
Searchenginejournal.com

Ask An SEO: Can AI Systems & LLMs Render JavaScript To Read ‘Hidden’ Content?

For this week’s Ask An SEO, a reader asked: “Is there any difference between how AI systems handle JavaScript-rendered or interactively hidden content compared to traditional Google indexing? What ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Updates JavaScript SEO Doc With Setting Canonical URL Advice

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...
Search Engine Land

Google clarifies canonicalization with JavaScript

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document, for the second time this week, this time to clarify canonicalization best practices for JavaScript. In short, Google said “setting the ...
USA Today

Here's how AI is helping holiday shoppers

The usage of AI to aid in finding gifts and tracking prices has skyrocketed this holiday season as the technology continues to advance and people's comfort level with AI increases. “Consumers are ...
Search Engine Land

Google says don’t use JavaScript to generate a noindex tag in the original page code

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript. In short, if “you do want the page indexed, don’t use a ...
Business Insider

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity share tips on how to boost your brand's visibility in AI searches

AI is changing the way we search — and transforming the practice of search engine optimization. Brands want to ensure they're visible in AI searches and that they're accurately represented. Experts ...
The Tuscaloosa News

Google rolls out ‘preferred sources’ feature. How to add The Tuscaloosa News.

Want to see more of the sites you love? Google’s got you covered. The tech juggernaut recently launched “preferred sources,” a new feature that “lets you customize your experience to see more from ...