Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

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Why are young conservatives so radicalized? Why is there such a stark generation gap, something you hear about any time you talk to any Republican of any prominence, between the basically optimistic ...

Even if you’ve never heard of kin keeping before, you’ve seen it in action. I remember my mother, throughout my childhood, talking on the phone almost daily with my paternal grandparents. She planned ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral ...

Google today released its 2025 Year in Search list, but don’t mistake it for a ranking of the “top searches” or the “most searched” terms. This year’s recap focused on trending queries – the topics ...

I am seeing some signs of a Google search ranking update over the past day or so but the chatter is super limited right now. Many of the tools spike yesterday but like I said, the SEO community ...

This article originally appeared on The Conversation. Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, millions of people have started using large language models to access knowledge. And it’s easy to ...

For years, Google’s predictable, and at times too easily gamed, ecosystem created an illusion that SEO success came from creating any and all content and checking boxes rather than understanding users ...

The village of Palatine has decided against adopting an "ICE Free Zone Ordinance," citing unenforceability, according to village officials who posted an update on immigration information to their ...