Google Core Update, Crawl Limits, and Gemini Traffic Trends Reshape Search Landscape

Google rolls out the March 2026 core update, details Googlebot crawl limits, and sees Gemini AI referral traffic surge, signaling changes in search and indexing.

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Catch of the Day: The 1MB Wonder! 💥💾

Hey Retro Fans!

The highlights of the day:

🪶 Off By One Browser: An absolute legend of minimalism visited us today. The Off By One Browser for Windows consists of a single standalone executable and is a tiny 1 megabyte in size. No bloated frameworks, no plugins – just pure, fast web browsing. It aligns perfectly with our philosophy!

🐉 Konqueror: The classic KDE file manager and web browser for Linux also stopped by. Just a reminder: This browser's engine (KHTML) was so groundbreaking back in the day that Apple used it as the foundation for Safari!

Whether it's tiny browser oddities or massive Amiga traffic – the Frog pond is buzzing. Keep it up!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying

Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

The Verge

From what I understand – I'm not an SEO person – is that LLMs do fan-out searches using popular search engines before synthesising the responses you see in chatbots like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. So to "rank" in the LLMs, you still need to rank in search.

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/900302/ai-seo-industry-google-search-chatgpt-gemini-marketing

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Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying

Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

The Verge
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Catch of the Day: The Easter Special (8-Bit Wonders & PowerPC Dreams) 🐰💾

Hey Retro Fans!

We hope you had a relaxing holiday weekend and found plenty of Easter eggs. While we were enjoying the break, you hid some absolute top-tier retro gems in our server logs! We just checked the weekend stats, and all we can say is: Wow!

The highlights of our Easter Special:

🕹️ FrogFind on a C64? We recorded several visits from the Contiki Browser! Contiki OS is a tiny operating system that brings networking, a GUI, and a web browser to 8-bit machines like the Commodore 64, Apple II, or early Ataris. It runs on mere kilobytes of RAM. An absolute masterpiece of coding swimming in the Frog pond!

🦋 Greetings from the MorphOS niche: We had strong traffic from the Odyssey Web Browser running on MorphOS. This fascinating OS is deeply intertwined with Amiga history and breathes new life into old PowerPC Macs and Amiga accelerator boards.

🪟 The Windows 9x Lifeline: With over 300 clicks this weekend, RetroZilla made a strong appearance. This brilliant browser allows classic Windows 95 and 98 machines to continue navigating the text web securely.

It is an absolute honor to serve everything from 8-bit machines to PowerPC exotics. We hope you had a fantastic holiday!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸

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