JavaScript links can make your pages invisible to AI search
A 41-day experiment reveals how JavaScript-only navigation limits AI crawler discovery and why fixing it later can be harder.
Topic: Brave
7 AI search shifts you can’t afford to ignore
Why Claude and ChatGPT surface different sources, how ChatGPT ads work, and what new AI search data means for visibility.
Claude visibility may depend heavily on Brave Search rankings, new data suggests
Claude frequently pulls from Brave Search results, with ranking, recency, and comparison prompts triggering searches most often.
No-JavaScript fallbacks in 2026: Less critical, still necessary
Rendering isn’t always immediate or complete. Learn where no-JavaScript fallbacks still protect critical content, links, and indexing.
Google Ads shows PMax placements in “Where ads showed” report
Google Ads now shows where Performance Max campaigns run, giving advertisers clear insights to optimize performance.
How AI answers are disrupting publisher revenue and advertising
A deeper look at the traffic losses, revenue shifts, and emerging models reshaping publishing and search in an AI-first era.
Optimizing for AI: How search engines power ChatGPT, Gemini and more
AI models pull from search results to build answers. Here’s how to ensure your content is among what Gemini, ChatGPT, and others surface.
Perplexity makes $34.5 billion bid to buy Google’s Chrome browser
It's a bold move on Perplexity's part, but Google is unlikely to sell Chrome, so it’s more of a PR stunt than a likely deal.
Google Search is 373x bigger than ChatGPT search
Think Google has lost market share to ChatGPT and other AI engines? Wrong. Google search grew, and ChatGPT's market share is less than 1%.
How to optimize your 2025 content strategy for AI-powered SERPs and LLMs
The future of SEO is about mentions, authority, and AI relevance. Here’s how to secure brand visibility in AI-generated search results.
How would a Google breakup impact SEO?
Here’s how the DOJ's case against Google and proposed market changes could forever reshape search engines, SEO, and digital privacy.
Google’s search market share drops below 90% for first time since 2015
In a surprising development, Google's global search market share was less than 90% for the final three months of 2024.
ChatGPT’s search surge: 1% market share predicted by 2025
ChatGPT today just made ChatGPT search now available to all free ChatGPT users. Could this help further fuel adoption of ChatGPT search?
ChatGPT search is now available to all free users
ChatGPT's AI search experience is now available to a larger number of users, which could further accelerate its growth.
7 reasons you can’t rely on third-party cookies
Cookie-reliant measurement is falling short. It's time to diversify your marketing strategy for more accurate attribution and insights.
Brave launches Search Ads
Eligible brands in the U.S., Canada, the UK, France and Germany can now run CPC-based ad campaigns on Brave Search.
Did Google really lose search market share to Microsoft Bing in April?
Google lost search market share in the U.S., North America, globally and more regions. Meanwhile, Bing and Yahoo grew. Is the data accurate?
Brave Search unveils AI answer engine
Brave's new Answer with AI features uses large language models to generate answers to queries directly in the search results.
LinkedIn Ads launches dynamic UTMs for campaign tracking
Dynamic UTMs will be rolled out to all users globally by the end of March, eliminating the need for manual setup.
One year later: Little change to Microsoft Bing’s search market share
Despite lots of hype and hope from Microsoft, Google still dominates search – though Bing has made tiny gains in the U.S. and worldwide.
YouTube denies ad blocker crackdown is causing browser slowdowns for Premium users
Users are reporting widespread issues across the platform, such as lagging, higher CPU usage, and delayed load times.
Google CEO details how Chrome helped grow Google Search
We also now know exactly how much Google paid to be the default search engine on multiple devices and browsers: $26.3 billion in 2021.
Microsoft CEO: AI will make Google more dominant
Despite investing $100 billion in Bing, the search engine simply can't compete with Google due to its monopoly position, says Satya Nadella.
Microsoft blames Google for Apple rejecting offer to buy Bing
Microsoft boss Mikhail Parakhin claims that despite offering more money than Google, the company was still turned down by Apple.
Apple has 19 billion reasons not to build a Google Search rival
"Apple Search" is not in the works as the company believes its deal with Google works better for its customers.
The new Bing has failed to take any market share from Google after six months
Microsoft disputes the data, which shows Bing's market share is actually lower in 2023 than it was in 2022 – before new Bing launched.
Crawlers, search engines and the sleaze of generative AI companies
AI companies see the openness of the web as permitting large-scale crawling to obtain training data. So what should publishers do?
Brave Search adds AI Summarizer feature
Don't call it generative AI. Brave trained its large language models (LLMs) to provide answers by processing multiple information sources.
Report: Google sharing Chrome iOS search revenue with Apple
UK's Competition and Markets Authority is concerned about this previously undisclosed revenue sharing arrangement between Apple and Google.
The modern search landscape: How and where to reach your target audience
Today's web users go beyond traditional search engines to search. Learn about the platforms that should be on every search marketer’s radar.
Brave Search adds Discussions to search results
Brave Search Discussions come from Reddit and StackExchange and are meant to provide alternative or complementary viewpoints.
Edward Snowden calls out Google over search engine’s privacy
Will this tweet trigger some change at Google? Probably not - but it might be wishful thinking.
Windows 11 update forces users into Edge, regardless of their default browser
Third-party apps like EdgeDeflector once allowed users to open Start menu searches in their preferred browser, but an upcoming update will eliminate users’ ability to choose.
Chrome tests Google side search in the browser
Also, Journeys is a new feature in Chrome that clusters your browsing history in a new way.
Mozilla tests Bing as the default search engine for 1% of users
Many SEOs often forego Bing optimization in favor of its higher traffic counterpart, but this is another reason to diversify your target search engines.
Can the industry’s biggest players win over privacy enthusiasts?; Thursday’s daily brief
Plus, Google’s June 23 spam update and Fred Vallaeys answers your top FLoC questions
SEOs rejoice: Core web vitals release moves to June; plus WordPress might block FLoC; Tuesday’s daily brief
And why you should use social media as a key component of your negotiation research
WordPress proposes blocking FLoC by default
It’s estimated that 40% of all sites use WordPress. If the proposal is implemented, that could be a devastating blow to Google’s ad-targeting capabilities.
Tips from the pros at SMX Create; Wednesday’s daily brief
Plus, competitors and regulators are sounding off on FLoC.
Google Search algorithm watching; Friday’s daily brief
Make sure not to miss the new more visual changes in Microsoft Bing Search, the new Google My Business reports and the Google Ads mobile app notifications.