Teaching a Model to Reason Before It Learns to Talk
A weekend project that turned into a bet against the whole transformer playbook. The short version Almost every AI you’ve heard of is a transformer trained on a firehose of text. It learns language first, and reasoning sort of comes along for the ride. I’m trying the opposite: a tiny model that learns logic and […]
Bing Webmaster Tools May Support More Country Reporting
Bing may soon support more countries for the countries filter within Bing Webmaster Tools. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft wrote on X, “Well, we are now actively considering expanding this to show more individual countries.”
Google Business Profiles Dashboard Activities Button
Google can show an “Activities” button in the Google Business Profiles dashboard within Google Search. I assume this button is reserved for venues that let you book activities including booking tickets or other activities.
How Search Grounding Biased an LLM Against YouTube
I asked Claude to recommend a webinar platform. The web’s affiliate-driven content quietly steered it away from the obvious free answer. Here is what happened, and what it says about how language models talk about products. The setup I gave Claude a simple, practical request: find me a platform where I can quickly hop on […]
Google Tests 3D Model From Attribution In Product Results
Google is testing attributing where the 3D models are from that Google shows within the product detail screen in Google Search. I can’t replicate this but the test shows “3D mode from [retailer name].”
Google Discover Feed With More Google News Showcase Results
Google seems to be showing content from publishers in the Google News Showcase more within the Google Discover feed. I don’t have direct data to prove this but two people who follow Google Discover closely said this is to be true.
Google: For Site Moves, Add All Domain Variants To Change Of Address Tool
Google has updated its site move and domain migrations help document to note that for domain migrations, you should make sure to submit Change of Address requests for all domain variations. Google said the “domain migrations work best when all variants…
Announcing the Final Batch of Speakers for MozCon NYC 2026
Is AI search making your SEO strategy harder to scale? Meet MozCon NYC 2026’s final speakers and learn AI, content, local SEO, and agent-ready frameworks you can use now.
Help Us Pick the Next Stop in Europe for Search Central Live Deep Dive 2026!
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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
We are seeing heated Google Search ranking volatility continue into this week…
Bing Webmaster Tools AI Reporting Adds Intents, Topics, Citation Share & Compare
Bing Webmaster Tools is rolling out a preview release of those new AI reporting features demonstrated at SEO Week in late April. These include Intents, Topics, Citation Share, and Compare within the AI reporting section.
Google Search Ranking Volatility Continues Into This Week
I’ve been watching the chatter in the SEO industry, and honestly, it hasn’t calmed down much since my last report for the period of June 8-12. The Google search results seem more heated today, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google search rankin…
CMA: Google Must Share How Search Results Are Ranked & Data Portability
The Competition and Markets Authority in the UK has told Google it must be transparent on how it ranks search results in Google and it must enable users to port its data to other third-party search services. I can’t imagine Google will ever share its …
Google Ads Updates Its Campaign Status Interface
Google is rolling out a new look and feel for the Google Ads campaign status notifications and icons. The new statuses are no longer highlighted fully, instead they are just outlined in various colors. It makes it a bit less extreme to look at, and …
Google Ads New Security Tasks Summary Tab
Google added a new summary tab to the access and security section that shows the security tasks you completed and what tasks you have not completed. Google continues to add more and more security features to the Google Ads advertiser platform in the wa…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google said that LLMS.txt files won’t help or hurt your search rankings, Google just ignores it…
Google: HTML The Standard For SEO, Not Markdown Files
Google’s latest Off The Record podcast was titled Markdown vs HTML with John Mueller and Martin Splitt talking about the use cases for both. In short, both said that when it comes to SEO and Search…
Google: No Practical SEO Difference By Going With Folder For US Site
John Mueller from Google said that when it comes to having a multinational site, making a specific US folder structure won’t give you any practical SEO difference. It might be easier for you to manage or for your to analyze with your analytics and data…
Google Image Search Mixes Ads Within Organic Results Too
Google has been mixing sponsored ads within its organic free search listings since October 2023. Eventually, Google said this is called dynamic ad placement, and it has become the new Google Search. Google has been doing this with the image search res…
New Microsoft Advertising Product Explorer
Microsoft Advertising has rolled out a new feature named Product Explorer. This tool gives advertisers a searchable view of your entire product catalog, letting you quickly see which of your products are active, serving, and performing.