Google told us this is a "minor update to our rater guidelines with small clarifications and a handful of new examples." Google has pushed a minor update to its search quality raters guidelines PDF ...

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shake-up of Google's search engine in a crackdown aimed at curbing the corrosive power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the U.S. government's attempt to ...

Google released the August spam update, impacting search results worldwide. The rollout may take a few weeks to complete. The August spam update started August 26 and applies worldwide. Expect ...

Google has made several additions to the business links policies & guidelines within the Google Business Profiles help section. Google doubled the size of the document, adding new sections for ...

U.S. Department of Justice lawyers were seeking a landmark divesture of assets owned by tech mega giant Alphabet after a federal court ruled that operations behind its Google search engine violated ...

Google’s AI Max for Search is now in global beta with one-click experiments and an upcoming text guidelines feature to steer brand-safe creative. AI Max for Search is globally available in beta.

British regulators said they may force Google to open its search engine to more competition — raising concerns that its budding use of artificial intelligence poses increasing threats to rivals and ...

On Thursday, September 11, 2025, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was on January 23, 2025, over seven months ago. This ...