Namely, Google Map Maker is shutting down. Now, I know what you're thinking - who cares?

The bot operation called "Methbot" watches up to 300 million video-based ads every day automatically.

Just a few days ago, I highlighted a story from The SEM Post that used the search phrase "Did the Holocaust happen," to show how fake news ranks in Google.

According to research from BuzzFeed, “Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30%…While Google makes up the bulk of searc

While Google and Facebook fight fake news, people on the sidelines are debating whether they're taking the right course of action.

Yahoo has just confirmed a new hack from 2013 which surpasses the previous 500,000 million.

Paranoid SEOs who love to blame Google for everything also love to whine about the "Google Sandbox." But, according to Google, there is no such thing.

AMP cache URLs have been showing up as coming from google.com/amp/ - but soon they'll be coming from cdn.amproject.org instead.

Google is testing a new format for the front page that pushes organic results so far down the page that they're almost off of it.

Despite all of our technological advances, humankind is still vulnerable to lies and manipulation.

Just a quick blurb of news today - Content Keywords has been removed from Search Console.

Back in October, Amazon warned that they would be taking a serious look at incentivized reviews on their platform. Now, just in time for the holidays, they've made good on their word.

It's just like it sounds - images in text ads are appearing as sitelinks in Google.

The row of sitelinks at the bottom of listings that appear for generic queries has returned. Gary Illyes's comments seem to imply that their removal was a bug.

Fake news sites are hopefully going to have a lot more difficulty staying afloat in the near future.

Christi Olson from Bing has said that they "have no plans to do a Bing 'mobile first' index."

After breaking Google's guidelines for years, they've finally be swatted with a penalty - and they aren't taking it well.

Google has already started testing the waters for its mobile-first index - what do we need to know?

Starting in January 2017, Google Chrome will begin marking any HTTP pages with password or credit card fields as insecure.

Search has changed tremendously in the past couple of years. Is the notion of 200 ranking factors now outdated?