Google has ended free full-web search for Programmable Search Engine and capped the free tier at 50 domains, forcing partners ...

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You may soon be able to tell Google to not use your content for AI Overviews, AI Mode and other search AI features.

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Is Google Ads reviving – or reinventing – its old Website Optimizer? New help docs surfaced that describe a tool that would live directly inside the Google Ads interface. Driving the news. Several new ...

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Update 7/31/25 4:10pm PT: Hours after this article was published, OpenAI said it removed the feature from ChatGPT that allowed users to make their public conversations discoverable by search engines.

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

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Google claims AI search delivers "more qualified clicks" despite documented traffic losses to websites. Publishers aren't provided with data to verify Google's quality claims. Organic traffic is ...

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Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...