It was a busier than normal news week. Here's what we covered:
- Ask Jeeves is officially dead. IAC formally killed the OG search engine earlier this week.
- There's been a spike in Google Business profile suspensions.
- GSC fixed the 50 week impression data logging issue.
- A Hard Drive shortage is slowing AI development and pushing up the costs of new computers and equipment.
- Presented with the mythic power of Mythos, the Trump regime is now calling for the same AI safety testing it opposed in 2025.
- US Homeland Security is seeking Google data on Canadians and presumably other foreign nationals for their online criticism of the Trump regime.
- Google and Amazon's biggest profit driver in Q1-2026 was derived from their stakes in Anthropic.
- Google Chrome installs 4GB AI model on devices in update to enable Google Nano operability.
- The state of Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI after a chatbot posed as a licensed doctor.
- Open AI misses revenue targets. CFO worried about paying for future computing contacts.
- Managed WordPress might be blocking some AI bots.
- Bing publishes documentation on how grounding differs from search indexing.
- Google outlines how AI Overviews and AI Mode are separate systems that sometimes intercede with each other or through other systems.
- John Mueller says Vibe coding won't handle your SEO for you.
- Google expanding UCP Checkout to main search results pages.
- and, Ryan Jones from SERPRecon on what Semantic SEO Metrics mean and how to use them.
Join hosts Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger for a in-depth and lively conversations about these and dozens of other topics in a news heavy edition of Webcology