It was a busier than normal news week. Here's what we covered:

- Ask Jeeves is officially dead. IAC formally killed the OG search engine earlier this week.

- There's been a spike in Google Business profile suspensions.

- GSC fixed the 50 week impression data logging issue.

- A Hard Drive shortage is slowing AI development and pushing up the costs of new computers and equipment.

- Presented with the mythic power of Mythos, the Trump regime is now calling for the same AI safety testing it opposed in 2025.

- US Homeland Security is seeking Google data on Canadians and presumably other foreign nationals for their online criticism of the Trump regime.

- Google and Amazon's biggest profit driver in Q1-2026 was derived from their stakes in Anthropic.

- Google Chrome installs 4GB AI model on devices in update to enable Google Nano operability.

- The state of Pennsylvania is suing Character.AI after a chatbot posed as a licensed doctor.

- Open AI misses revenue targets. CFO worried about paying for future computing contacts.

- Managed WordPress might be blocking some AI bots.

- Bing publishes documentation on how grounding differs from search indexing.

- Google outlines how AI Overviews and AI Mode are separate systems that sometimes intercede with each other or through other systems.

- John Mueller says Vibe coding won't handle your SEO for you.

- Google expanding UCP Checkout to main search results pages.

- and, Ryan Jones from SERPRecon on what Semantic SEO Metrics mean and how to use them.

Join hosts Jim Hedger and Kristine Schachinger for a in-depth and lively conversations about these and dozens of other topics in a news heavy edition of Webcology

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