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Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Puts Ads Within Features Snippets Named You Might Also Like. “I don’t know if you might also like this, you probably won’t but Bing is dropped ads in their featured answers, featured snippets. They are calling these ads ‘You might also like.'”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/27/search-engine-roundtable-bing-puts-ads-within-features-snippets-named-you-might-also-like/

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#Google #SearchEngines #WebSearch #hubris

"A new profile of Elizabeth Reid, the head of Google Search, confirms that Google is moving away from its longstanding model of sending its users to websites. As one former unnamed senior executive put it: 'Giving traffic to publisher sites is kind of a necessary evil.'"

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Search Engine Land · Ex-Google exec: Giving traffic to publishers 'a necessary evil'In a newly published profile, Google's Head of Search Elizabeth Reid also said the Google search bar will become less prominent over time.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy.. “Antitrust enforcers have proposed a set of complementary remedies, from giving users a choice of search engine, to forcing Google to spin off Chrome and possibly Android into separate companies. Overall, this is the right approach. Google’s dominance in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/electronic-frontier-foundation-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-google-search-courts-must-enable-competition-while-protecting-privacy/

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Engadget: Anthropic’s Claude chatbot can now search the web too. “As the industry’s first hybrid reasoning model, it was a major milestone for the company. Rather than forcing users to pick between a version of Claude that can answer a question nearly instantaneously or work through a problem step by step, the chatbot can do both, with a simple toggle allowing you to switch between Claude’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/21/engadget-anthropics-claude-chatbot-can-now-search-the-web-too/

Search Engine Roundtable: Google Tests AI Overviews In Middle Of Search Results Page. UGH. “Google is testing moving the AI Overviews from the top position of the search results page (also known as position zero), to the middle of the search results page. We saw Google test this with featured snippets over the years, so it makes sense Google would test this with AI Overviews.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/search-engine-roundtable-google-tests-ai-overviews-in-middle-of-search-results-page/

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🚀 SAVE THE DATE: NGI FORUM 2025! 🚀

Mark your calendars! The #NGIForum2025 is coming to Brussels on 19-20 June, bringing together experts, innovators, and policymakers to shape the future of Europe’s digital landscape, including #NGISargasso.

Expect:
🔹 Workshops on #DigitalCommons & #WebSearch.
🔹 Discussions on Open Internet Infrastructure.
🔹 Opportunities to network.

📍 Brussels
📅 19-20 June 2025

🔗 Stay tuned —more details coming soon!

🌊 ngisargasso.eu/

@EC_NGI
@ngi

Search Engine Journal: Google Expands AI Overviews To Thousands More Health Queries. “Google is expanding AI overviews to ‘thousands more health topics,’ per an announcement at the company’s health-focused ‘The Check Up’ event. The event included developments spanning research, wearable technology, and medical records.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/20/search-engine-journal-google-expands-ai-overviews-to-thousands-more-health-queries/

Search Engine Land: As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: Report. “AI-powered search engines (e.g., OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity) are failing to drive meaningful traffic to publishers while their web scraping activities increase. That’s one big takeaway from a recent report from TollBit, a platform that says it helps publishers monetize their content.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/18/as-ai-scraping-surges-ai-search-traffic-fails-to-follow-report-search-engine-land-2/

Tip of the day: When updating #DEVONthink or our other applications, you might want to know what’s new and what we’ve improved? This is what the release notes are for, which we provide with every update to our apps. Here’s what’s in the notes and how they can help you. #devonagent #devonsphere #devonthinktogo #freeware #notetaking #pkm #productivity #research #tipoftheday #websearch devontechnologies.com/blog/202

Search Engine Land: As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: Report. “Google’s average search click-through rate (CTR) was 8.63%, according to the report. However, the CTR for AI search engines was 0.74% and 0.33% CTR for AI chatbots. That means AI search sends 91% fewer referrals and chatbots send 96% less than traditional search.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/13/as-ai-scraping-surges-ai-search-traffic-fails-to-follow-report-search-engine-land/

#AI #SearchEngines #publishers #WebSearch #Unsustainability

'Google’s average search click-through rate (CTR) was 8.63%, according to the report. However, the CTR for AI search engines was 0.74% and 0.33% CTR for AI chatbots. That means AI search sends 91% fewer referrals and chatbots send 96% less than traditional search.'

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Search Engine Land · As AI scraping surges, AI search traffic fails to follow: ReportAI bot scraping doubled from Q3 to Q4 of 2024. But the click-through rates from AI search remain abysmal – at less than 1%