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Vol. II, No. 60
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BREAKING: Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints

Today's Latest News

Google Explains Why Its Crawler Ignores Your Resource Hints

Google's Gary Illyes clarifies why resource hints do not influence Googlebot's crawling be.....

February 27, 2026
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February 2026 Google Discover Core Update Is Done Rolling Out After 3 Weeks

Google's February 2026 Google Discover Core Update has officially completed rolling out after j.....

February 27, 2026
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Bing Tests 2x2 Video Grid Layout

Microsoft Bing Search is testing a new layout for videos within the search results. Instead of a lis.....

February 27, 2026
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Videos: Google Search On HTML & Google Ads On Search Experiences

The Google Search team and the Google Ads team released two different videos this week that I though.....

February 27, 2026
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Microsoft Advertising Rolls Out Self-Service Negative Keyword Lists

Microsoft Advertising has now rolled out the self-serve negative keyword lists. This launched a coup.....

February 27, 2026
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Google Ads Text Guidelines Rolling Out To All In AI Max

Google Ads is rolling out text guidelines for all advertisers globally in AI Max. We thought the rol.....

February 27, 2026
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Google Tests Web Mentions In Retailer Store Pages

Google is testing adding "web mentions" to the retailer store page under the reviews secti.....

February 27, 2026
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Google’s Discover Core Update Finishes Rolling Out

Google's February Discover core update is complete after a roughly 22-day rollout. Early data s.....

February 27, 2026
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Discover Core Update Data, Sitemap Tips & AI Risks – SEO Pulse

This week's SEO Pulse highlights evolving AI link formats, cross-language sourcing biases in Ch.....

February 27, 2026
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Google’s Asset Guidance & Ad Scheduling Updates, Microsoft Negatives – PPC Pulse

This week's PPC Pulse recaps Google’s evolving Search asset guidance, revised budget pacing beh.....

February 27, 2026
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 27, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

February 27, 2026
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Bing Adds GEO To Official Guidelines, Expands AI Abuse Definitions

Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI ans.....

February 27, 2026
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Earlier News

International PPC: Why Consistency Is So Hard To Maintain

Keep international PPC campaigns aligned with practical frameworks for consistency, localization, an.....

February 26, 2026
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Google To Test Search Changes In EU After DMA Charges, Per Report

Google is preparing to test search result changes in the EU that would show rival vertical search se.....

February 26, 2026
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Google Circle to Search Looks At The Whole Image

Google announced updates to Circle to Search where it now doesn't just look at the part you cir.....

February 26, 2026
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Google Ads API Version 23.1 Now Available

Google has released a minor version update to the Google Ads API, version 23.1. This update has chan.....

February 26, 2026
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Microsoft Updates Bing Webmaster Guidelines (A Bit)

Microsoft has updated the design of the Bing Webmaster Guidelines section and changed some of the ve.....

February 26, 2026
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Google To Test Showing Vertical Search Services In EU

Reuters has a headline that reads Exclusive: Google to test changes to search results, source says a.....

February 26, 2026
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