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Brussels Moves to Fine, the May Update Bites, AI Commerce Gets Its Feed
A core update finishing the rollout that started last week, Brussels readying its largest DMA penalty against Google, a Merchant Center feed designed for conversational AI, and Business Profiles surfacing per-photo view counts for the first time.
Bing Reorganizes Image Search, Google Tightens the Penalty Pipeline
A quiet Memorial Day Monday with four moves worth tracking: Microsoft shipped AI-organized image search, Google closed the AI Overviews penalty lag, the antitrust appeal landed at the DC Circuit, and Business Profile rejections started naming the rule you broke.
When AI Search Cracks, Practitioners Take the Mic
AI Search broke in public over a single common word, and a chorus of practitioner voices openly rejected the playbook Google handed out for adapting to it.
A Core Update Lands and the AI Story Gets Complicated
Google opened its second core update of the year on Thursday while fresh data and field analysis poked holes in the tidy narrative that AI has already won search.
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