#search-disruption

#search-disruption

Grokipedia might be dropping more with the March 2026 broad core update. The decline seems to be continuing with the latest broad core update.

VOID stands for Video Object and Interaction Deletion. It's a VLM (vision-language model) that can not only erase objects from a scene but can also inpaint how remaining objects in the scene should behave without the influence of whatever was excised.

"We appealed and appealed and lost every appeal. And then the case was ultimately dismissed."

In this test, there is a huge section of sponsored products in a double-rowed carousel along with some cards from individual websites (organic).

Google had a brief serving issue with Google Search. Google is testing showing vertical search services next to its own in the EU. Google said a spike in impressions do not cause problems for Google Search. Google won't use a sitemap file if it is not convinced of new or important content.

For most of the last two decades, SEO mostly meant one thing, where you ranked on Google (and occasionally Bing). The customer journey was familiar. Someone searched, scanned a list of links, clicked and explored. Now the journey is increasingly 'ask, get an answer, take action.' And the platforms shaping that journey include ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google itself, which is inserting AI summaries, what Google calls AI Overviews, into search results.