Calishat: Upgrading BlogHiking.com: More Results, Site Muting. “I spent some time over the weekend working on my blog search tool Blog Hiking. I’m happy to report it’s more powerful than before and has a couple of new features.”

SF Gate: Google hates you. “I never expected Google Search to cease searching, and neither did my overlords at Hearst. I naively assumed that Google, for all of its amorality, still found tremendous financial value in the sharing of information, of using the internet’s unfathomable power to connect people with one another, and with one another’s work in turn. I didn’t expect it to become […]

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/30/google-adds-preferred-sources-to-ai-overviews-ai-mode-xcxwbn/

Google has expanded its Preferred Sources feature into AI Overviews and AI Mode, highlighting chosen publishers inside AI answers as search traffic pressure grows.

#AI #PreferredSources #AIOverviews #AIMode #GoogleSearch #Google #AISearch #Publishers #SearchEngines

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/30/duckduckgo-traffic-jumps-after-google-doubles-down-on-ai-xcxwbn/

DuckDuckGo's AI-free search page saw a reported 22.7% traffic rise after Google pushed AI search, pointing to backlash against default AI results in search.

#AI #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #SearchEngines #AISearch #AIMode #AIOverviews #GoogleAI

9to5 Google: Google rolling out new settings for Search Services History & Personalized Recommendations. “Google Search is adding two new settings related to your history and personalization. The aim is to provide users with ‘more control over saved history and personalized recommendations.’ This is rolling out over the coming weeks, and users are beginning to receive email and in-app […]

Doc Searls: From Losing the Web to Saving Us All. “Everybody in the surveillance-fed advertising fecosystem already regards personal privacy as a bug, not a feature. With Big AI, the plan is to modernize that fecosystem by moving human cattle onto corporate ranches, where they can be observed more closely than ever, and advertised at with far more accuracy. This, the thinking goes, should […]

The Verge: Google’s AI is sometimes confused if 2027 is next year.. “As noted on Bluesky, if you search ‘is it 2027 next year,’ Google’s AI Overviews occasionally state that 2027 is two years from now.”

#Business #Findings
AI traffic vs. AI citations · Google’s AI search is more layered than you think https://ilo.im/16d97a

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#SEO #Google #SearchEngines #Visibility #OrganicSearch #AiSearch #AI #Citations #Traffic #WebAnalytics

PC Mag: DuckDuckGo Sees Surge in Installs After Google Goes All-In on AI Search at I/O. “At I/O last week, Google announced its biggest Search upgrade in 25 years, but few seem impressed by its new AI features. Since the event, users have been flocking to DuckDuckGo, a rival search engine that lets them disable AI features altogether.” I hope some of them are checking out the alternatives I […]