by Nikka | Feb 5, 2026 | Google
Alphabet has reported a strong finish to 2025, with Google Search revenue rising 17% year-on-year to $63.07 billion in Q4. This growth contributed to the company surpassing $400 billion in total annual revenue for the first time, highlighting the continued dominance...
by Nikka | Feb 5, 2026 | Google
Google Search Advocate John Mueller has criticised the idea of serving Markdown files specifically for large language model (LLM) crawlers, questioning whether AI bots can even interpret such files correctly. Speaking on Bluesky, he called the concept “a stupid idea,”...
by Nikka | Feb 4, 2026 | Google
Google’s crawl team has been actively filing bug reports against WordPress plugins that contribute to significant crawl waste, highlighting the impact these issues can have on site performance and indexing. During a recent episode of the Search Off the Record podcast,...
by Nikka | Feb 4, 2026 | Google
Google has issued an update to its official documentation to clarify how file size limits work across its crawling systems, separating general crawler rules from those that apply specifically to Googlebot when indexing content for Google Search. The change is intended...
by Nikka | Feb 2, 2026 | Google
Advertising within ChatGPT represents a major shift away from traditional keyword-driven strategies towards a deeper understanding of user behaviour. For marketers, this changes the way relevance, creative messaging, and performance measurement need to be approached....
by Nikka | Feb 2, 2026 | Google
A new proposal has been put forward to mark specific sections of web pages that are AI generated, using existing semantic HTML, in order to meet upcoming EU regulatory requirements. The idea has sparked debate among web developers and accessibility experts, with some...
