Search Engine Land launched Dec. 11, 2006. Today, we look back on a successful 2025 and look forward to an even greater 2026.

For years, optimizing content meant focusing almost entirely on Google and other traditional engines. But with the rapid rise of generative AI chatbots – tools that don’t just link but summarize – ...

Nearly 30 years ago, when Google launched the search engine that started its long march to dominance, its founders started without much hardware. Known at first as Backrub and operated on the Stanford ...

As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time before Google was created. However, the World Wide Web is full of search engines that time ...

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OpenAI disables ChatGPT's search discoverability feature after shared chats appeared in Google results, raising privacy concerns. OpenAI has removed the ability to make shared ChatGPT links searchable ...

When most people think of search engines, Google is likely the first name that comes to mind, but it’s just one of the top search engines in the world, not the only one. Many other search engines help ...