According to an update posted to the Search Status dashboard on February 27 at 2:02 a.m. PT, the rollout of Google’s February 2026 Discover core update has completed. The rollout lasted approximately 22 days and began on February 5th. That’s about 8 days longer than Google’s original estimate of up to two weeks. Google announced … Read more
Microsoft has rewrote the Bing Webmaster Guidelines to cover how content appears in both traditional search results and the AI responses generated by Copilot. The previous version focused on how Bing indexes and ranks websites. The recast extends this to Copilot and Grounding API results and treats “Grounding results and citations” as additional authorization results. … Read more
Microsoft’s Defender Security Research Team has published a study describing so-called “AI Recommendation Poisoning”. In this technique, companies hide prompt instructions in website buttons labeled “Summarize with AI.” Clicking one of these buttons will open an AI assistant with a pre-populated prompt submitted via a URL query parameter. The visible part tells the wizard to … Read more
