Bing rewrote its webmaster guidelines to cover Copilot grounding, meta directive controls for AI answers, and a softened stance on AI-generated content.

Learn the fundamentals of answer engine optimization and how to structure your content so AI systems quote you as a trusted source.

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. The Google Discover core update from February 2026 has ...

This instruction tells Google to remove the AI summary. It’s called a search operator, which you may already be familiar with as a concept. Typically, the minus sign tells the engine to ignore the ...

The best AI rank trackers help brands monitor visibility in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Bing Copilot and here are the ...

Sign into your Google account, go to Search Labs, and select the Web Guide experiment. Click the "Try the new AI-organized web results" toggle on Web Guide to enable the experience. You'll then see ...

New SDK findings reveal why some pages never reach ranking, how pCTR predicts clicks, and why images and recency drive Discover traffic.

Here's a short list of search engines I recommend that don't push AI and instead go the old-school route with actual website results.

Google’s first-stage retrieval still runs on word matching, not AI magic. Here’s how to use content scoring tools accordingly ...

You can avoid Google's AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.