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The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority’s quarterly report comes after Google pushed its cookie deprecation to 2025.

The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 – this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in unhelpful content.

Google Search (as well as YouTube) continues to be the biggest driver of Alphabet’s increase in overall revenue.

Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publishers and will eventually remove those publishers not eligible.

Don’t expect Meta search ads, but there could eventually be ads and paid content in Meta AI interactions, says CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

TikTok says the law is unconstitutional and plans to challenge it in court.

Google Senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan blames increasing competition, costs and regulation for a ‘new operating reality’.

We asked Search Engine Land’s SearchBot to create a recovery plan for a website that lost its rankings following a Google core update.

Google used tactics that hindered Yahoo Japan’s ability to compete in targeted search ads, according to Japan’s Fair Trade Commission.

Meta AI will point users to web search results of Google or Microsoft Bing for queries that require the most up-to-date answers.