Search Engine Roundtable: February 2026 Google Discover Core Update Rolling Out – Local Impact. “Google has released its first core update of 2026, which is focused on just Google Discover. Google named it the February 2026 Discover core update. This one is rolling over the next two weeks or so, just English language users in the US and at some point will roll out beyond that to all countries […]

Search Engine Land: Google may be cracking down on self-promotional ‘best of’ listicles. “Google may finally be starting to address a popular SEO and AI visibility ‘tactic’: self-promotional ‘best of’ listicles. That’s according to new research by Lily Ray, vice president, SEO strategy and research at Amsive.”

Search Engine Land: Microsoft rolls out multi-turn search in Bing. “This type of search experience lets a user continue the conversation from the Bing search results page. Instead of starting over, the searcher types a follow-up question into the Copilot search box at the bottom of the results, allowing the search to build on the previous query.”

Search Engine Land: LinkedIn: AI-powered search cut traffic by up to 60%. “AI-powered search gutted LinkedIn’s B2B awareness traffic. Across a subset of topics, non-brand organic visits fell by as much as 60% even while rankings stayed stable, the company said.”

Tubefilter: AI isn’t just changing where we search. It’s changing how we search.. “The rise of contextual answer-gatherers has led Google users to phrase their queries with more detail, and that strategy seems to be producing more accurate results.”

PressGazette: AI answers cite ‘narrow range’ of top newsbrands led by BBC and Guardian. “AI answers from OpenAI, Google and Perplexity draw on a ‘narrow range’ of the biggest publishers when responding to news queries, according to new research from UK thinktank IPPR. Looking at Google Gemini, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity, the research found that on average 34% of […]

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Personal Intelligence Creates AI Frankenstein Recipes. “Glenn Gabe posted a super useful deep dive into how Personal Intelligence works for him and within there, he asked for a Key Lime Pie recipe. So Google knows he visited Inspired Taste a lot, recently, and used that site to provide him a recipe. … The issue is, the recipe was wrong and it claims it is from […]

Search Engine Land: AI recommendation lists repeat less than 1% of the time: Study. “When ChatGPT, Claude, or Google’s AI get asked for brand or product recommendations, they almost never return the same list twice — and almost never in the same order. That’s the big finding from a new study from Rand Fishkin, CEO and co-founder of SparkToro, and Patrick O’Donnell, CTO and co-founder of […]

Search Engine Land: Google searches per U.S. user fell nearly 20% YoY: Report. “That drop stands in sharp contrast to Europe, where searches per user declined by just 2% to 3%. Even with fewer searches per person, traditional search still makes up about 10% of all U.S. desktop activity — a share that stayed nearly flat throughout 2025.” For 90% of my basic searches — I’m trying to find a web […]

Do you use #mojeek, #presearch, #kagi, #marginaliasearch, #yacy or something else ??? There is no false answer! 😌

Tell us why and let us discover new tools to search online! 🙂

#websearch #websearchengine #boostswelcome #boost

#DuckDuckGo #WebSearch #AI #AntiAI #PublicOpinion

'DuckDuckGo recently asked its community whether they actually wanted AI baked into their web browsing experience. The response was loud and clear: an overwhelming majority said no.'

https://www.techspot.com/news/111091-nine-out-ten-duckduckgo-users-dont-want-ai.html

TechSpot: Nine out of ten DuckDuckGo users don’t want AI anywhere near their search. “DuckDuckGo recently asked its community whether they actually wanted AI baked into their web browsing experience. The response was loud and clear: an overwhelming majority said no. Now, the company says it’s going to honor that choice by offering two different versions of its search experience.”

GLM 4.7 Flash 30B PRISM + Web Search: Mô hình nhỏ nhưng hiệu năng ấn tượng! Hiệu quả trong suy luận, ít từ chối mềm, hỗ trợ tra cứu web giúp bù đắp kiến thức hạn chế. Phù hợp nghiên cứu đa chủ đề, chạy tốt trên LMStudio + OpenwebUI. Cực kỳ đáng thử cho ai dùng LLM cục bộ. #AI #LLM #GLM #PRISM #WebSearch #TríTuệNhânTạo #MôHìnhNgônNgữ #AIcucbo

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qqw3ov/glm_47_flash_30b_prism_web_search_very_solid/

Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav (@reach_vb)

Codex의 CLI와 Extension이 기본적으로 웹 검색을 지원하도록 업데이트되었습니다. 더 이상 'search' 플래그를 명시할 필요가 없고, 기본적으로 웹 검색 캐시를 사용하며 'full access sandbox' 또는 'yolo' 모드에서는 실시간(live) 검색을 사용합니다. 개발자 툴의 검색 동작이 개선된 주요 변경입니다.

https://x.com/reach_vb/status/2016934254987350271

#codex #cli #websearch #developertools #extension

Neocities Blog: Neocities Is Blocked by Bing. “Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.neocities.org), from its search index. This is not a partial demotion, a ranking issue, or a temporary crawl problem. The entire domain is completely excluded.”

Reuters: UK pushes Google to allow sites to opt out of AI Overviews. “Britain said it wanted Google to change its search services to give businesses and consumers more choice, including allowing publishers to ‘opt out’ of ‍their content being used in its AI Overviews or to train standalone AI models.”

I’d been happily using #Kagi for a couple years but the ick got too much and I switched to #DuckDuckGo a few months ago. The results are terrible. Anyone got any other recommendations for #WebSearch? #Ecosia seems to use Google which I’d prefer not to use.

Tip of the day: Quality assurance is a top priority in the development of our applications. Nevertheless, misbehavior can sometimes occur, leading to an application crashing or stalling. To investigate and fix the issue, we need a report with some information about it. Here’s how you can support us with that. #devonagent #devonthink #macos #pkm #productivity #research #tipoftheday #troubleshooting #websearch https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20230131-stalls-and-crashes

#TIL I learned about #Unstream;

"Find your favorite music on alternative platforms, directly support the artists you love, and move off streaming"

https://unstream.stream/

#search #WebSearch #music #MusicSearch

Spotted on Hacker News: Search Bench. From the announcement: “I built Search Bench as a small experiment to compare search engines without showing which engine produced which results. It was inspired by the idea behind the LLM Arena, but applied to search.” I did two searches, one with a common word (cows) and one with a much rarer word (agrivoltaics). The cow query was a close choice but I […]