A noindex robots directive is one of the few commands that Google must obey, one of the few ways that a site owner can exercise control over Googlebot, Google’s indexer. And yet it’s not totally ...

Google is testing a toggle that lets you control whether a site appears in AI Overviews and AI Mode. New dedicated performance reports will show impressions from generative AI Search features. Both ...

Google has announced the new Search Console Search Generative AI performance reports and a toggle to block your site from showing in AI responses. This is available currently only for a small subset ...

Editor's take: The glitch illustrates the complexity of integrating generative AI systems with real-time search data. Scraping search results across public infrastructures raises both technical and ...

Following a landmark ruling by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Google has introduced a new opt-out toggle within Search Console. The feature allows publishers to prevent their ...

More than three years after it began rolling out AI Overviews and a year after the debut of AI Mode, Google is giving webmasters the option to exclude their domains from its AI-generated search ...