Searching via AI doesn’t just hurt content creators–it also mashes up what you’re looking for in a tasteless glob of names ...

Three LLMs, one prompt, and a lot of disappointment.

Websites need a new audit framework that accounts for AI crawlers, rendering limitations, structured data, and accessibility ...

You have until June 15, 2026 to remove the back button code before Google begins to take action.

Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy. Back button hijacking occurs when a site prevents users from ...

Google is testing a new colorful design for Search Live and Gemini with new animations, the end of Nano Banana branding, and ...

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 Maps released its spam fighting report efforts ...

In a nutshell: Modern CSS has been pushed into some unusual places over the past few years, but few experiments stretch it as far as a fully playable version of Doom rendered entirely with HTML ...

In short: Google is classifying “back button hijacking” as spam, targeting sites that abuse the browser History API to trap users when they try to navigate away. Enforcement begins 15 June 2026, with ...

Google has made some controversial decisions related to its flagship search engine in recent years, but this one will probably be pretty popular. The company announced in a developer note (via ...

All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back. It’s called back button hijacking, and Google has thus far tolerated it. That ends in June, when the company ...