Google removes useful EU search features, then asks Europeans to blame Brussels
Nick Fox says European Search has lost price checks and hotel-date filters. Google’s own documentation shows comparison sites can still display richer results.
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Best image search engines: I tested 10 on real publishing jobs
For this guide, I tested 10 image search platforms on the same real-world jobs. I wasn’t interested in which one advertised the most features. I wanted to know which one got me to the right, correctly sourced and usable image fastest.
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Adobe expects AI shopping referrals to more than double this holiday season
Adobe forecasts AI-referred traffic to US retail sites will grow 130% this holiday season, but says the channel remains modest in overall volume.
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Manus 2.0 launches video editing, and I tested it on a 30-second ad
Manus 2.0 adds video editing and event-triggered automations, alongside a new agent architecture and persistent cloud computing.
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5 Wayback Machine alternatives for finding and saving web pages
Where to search for a deleted page, how to preserve one that is still online, and why Archive.today is off our shortlist.
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Meta hires MongoDB’s CEO to sell you AI alongside the ads
CJ Desai will lead Meta Enterprise Platform as the company expands from helping businesses reach customers into supplying the AI tools they use to work.
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Google may bin your Business Profile post over a phone number
Updated guidance covers unverified emails and social handles, while giving phone numbers a conditional route into posts.
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Gemini gets Photoshop tools without asking you to upgrade
Adobe is bringing photo editing and design tools into Google’s chatbot. Its help page specifies English-only support and an Adobe account requirement.
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Google AI Overviews Return For Many Large Brand Names
Google seems to be showing more and more AI Overviews these days and even for many large brand names. It don’t have a ton of data but Google does seems to be showing more and AI Overviews for almost every large brand name except for Google’s own name …
Claude’s growth comes with a $7.3 billion computing bill
Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals the rising cost of building and running Claude, with $4.6 billion in 2025 revenue alongside a $42 billion net loss that includes a major accounting charge.
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Claude hits 950 million monthly visits, with barely any paid traffic
Nearly 98% of search clicks to Claude came from branded terms, according to Similarweb’s analysis through August.
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OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Gains Bulk Product Creation, Product Review Status & More
OpenAI just sent out an email to advertisers about new ChatGPT Ads product updates that include several new features. The new features include bulk creation for product feed campaigns, product review status, report conversions beyond your campaign goal…
Bing tests new format highlighting top ad and organic results
Bing is testing a combined logo display below the search bar, showing the top-ranking ad alongside the top two organic results for a keyword.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 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 is only paying about 100 publishers in the AI contribution pilot…
Claude Sonnet 5.5 promises lower AI bills without a price cut
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is faster and more token-efficient. I tested it against Sonnet 5 on the same marketing task to see what changed.
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Google Maps Now Requires Sign In To Read All Reviews & More
Google Maps now requires you to sign in to a Google account to see all the reviews on a Google Business Profile listing. It is also required in order to sort the reviews, leave a review, and more. I assume this was done to help prevent AI, bots, and th…
Bing tests Recommended products heading in organic results
Bing is testing a ‘Recommended products’ heading above product grids in organic results, a labeling change that could help boost CTR.
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Google Paying ~100 Publishers 0.1% Of Ad Revenue In AI Contribution Pilot
As you know, Google has a small pilot named the AI contribution pilot, where they are paying some publishers for using their content in AI features like AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini. Well, according to The Information, it is about 100 publishers an…
Google Tests Sponsored Products Grid That Looks Like The Organic Product Grid
Google is testing making the sponsored products search results block or grid look more like the organic products/shopping grid. Instead of showing a long carousel of products across the top or on the right, this shows a product grid format we are more …
Bing Tests Product Features Labels On Product Listings
Microsoft Bing is testing adding product feature labels to product listings in the search results. This can add labels like “great for…,” “effective,” “performs well,” “lightweight”, and so on.