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Add to Google Preferred Sources Google has published an official guide on website optimization for its AI-powered search features, taking the position that traditional SEO best practices remain effective and that no special measures are required for AI. Among practitioners, there is a growing view that third-party credibility will become increasingly important in the AI…

In the past couple of days, I have seen a spike in the number of complaints around favicons disappearing from the Google Search result snippets. The complaints started a couple of days before Google’s August 2026 spam update, so I doubt they are related to that, but they have indeed spiked. It makes me think…