A copyright complaint can result in a page being removed from Google search results based on a notice, even if the ownership claims are later disputed or inaccurate. According to Press Gazette, this happened twice this year. At the end of June, the journalist trade publication reported that a second part of its coverage of … Read more
Cloudflare is updating its method for identifying and blocking AI crawlers, which may result in Googlebot being blocked on sites that prevent AI training. The company announced the update as part of its second Content Independence Day. The new controls allow websites to manage automated traffic based on three behaviors, rather than just using a … Read more
Google Search becomes an agent manager. Sundar Pichai made it clear in two interviews this spring: “Many of the information-seeking queries are agent-executed in search. They’re doing tasks. There’s a lot of threads running.” A week later, at Google Marketing Live 2026, Nick Fox, the SVP responsible for search, advertising and commerce, said the consequence: … Read more
