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WordPress Publishes AI Guidelines To Combat AI Slop

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WordPress published guidelines for using AI for coding plugins, themes, documentation, and media assets. The purpose of the guidelines, guided by five principles, is to keep WordPress contributions transparent, GPL-compatible, and human-accountable, while maintaining high quality standards for AI-assisted work. The new guidelines lists the following five principles: “You are responsible for your contributions (AI … Read more

Google Updates Googlebot File Size Limit Docs

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Google updated its Googlebot documentation to clarify information about file size limits. The change involves moving information about default file size limits from the Googlebot page to Google’s broader crawler documentation. Google also updated the Googlebot page to be more specific about Googlebot’s own limits. What’s New Google’s documentation changelog describes the update as a … Read more

Hidden HTTP Page Can Cause Site Name Problems In Google

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Google’s John Mueller shared a case where a leftover HTTP homepage was causing unexpected site-name and favicon problems in search results. The issue, which Mueller described on Bluesky, is easy to miss because Chrome can automatically upgrade HTTP requests to HTTPS, making the HTTP version easy to overlook. What Happened Mueller described the case as … Read more

Google’s Ads Chief Details UCP Expansion, New AI Mode Ads

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Google’s VP of Ads and Commerce, Vidhya Srinivasan, published her third annual letter to the industry, outlining how the company plans to connect advertising, commerce, and AI across Search, YouTube, and Gemini in 2026. The letter covers agentic commerce, AI-powered ad formats, creator partnerships, and creative tools. Several of the announcements build on features Google … Read more

Google’s Crawl Team Filed Bugs Against WordPress Plugins

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Google’s crawl team has been filing bugs directly against WordPress plugins that waste crawl budget at scale. Gary Illyes, Analyst at Google, shared the details on the latest Search Off the Record podcast. His team filed an issue against WooCommerce after identifying its add-to-cart URL parameters as a top source of crawl waste. WooCommerce picked … Read more

Google’s Mueller Calls Markdown-For-Bots Idea ‘A Stupid Idea’

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Some developers have been experimenting with bot-specific Markdown delivery as a way to reduce token usage for AI crawlers. Google Search Advocate John Mueller pushed back on the idea of serving raw Markdown files to LLM crawlers, raising technical concerns on Reddit and calling the concept “a stupid idea” on Bluesky. What’s Happening A developer … Read more

Google Search Hits $63B, AI Mode Ad Tests Detailed

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Alphabet reported Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion, beating Wall Street estimates and marking the company’s first year above $400 billion in annual revenue. Google Search grew 17% to $63.07 billion. On the earnings call, the company revealed how it plans to monetize AI Mode and shared new data on how AI is changing search … Read more

Google Shows How To Check Passage Indexing

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Google’s John Mueller was asked how many megabytes of HTML Googlebot crawls per page. The question was whether Googlebot indexes two megabytes (MB) or fifteen megabytes of data. Mueller’s answer minimized the technical aspect of the question and went straight to the heart of the issue, which is really about how much content is indexed. … Read more

Google Revises Discover Guidelines Alongside Core Update

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Google revised its “Get on Discover” documentation following the lauch of the February Discover core update. On its documentation updates page, Google said it added more information on how sites can increase the likelihood of content appearing in Discover. Here’s what was added. What Changed Comparing the archived version with the current page shows Google … Read more

Google Revises Discover Guidelines Alongside Core Update

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Google revised its “Get on Discover” documentation following the lauch of the February Discover core update. On its documentation updates page, Google said it added more information on how sites can increase the likelihood of content appearing in Discover. Here’s what was added. What Changed Comparing the archived version with the current page shows Google … Read more

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