Naver has formally launched its conversational search product AI Tab for every user on the Naver main page — not just Plus membership testers. That matters in a market where Naver still owns roughly half of Korean search and treats ...

A July 2026 audit from EU Vetted says the quiet part out loud: most products sold as private or European search are interfaces over Bing or Google, not operators of their own index. That distinction is the whole ball game ...

While Ecosia and Qwant push Staan results into consumer search, the joint venture is also selling the index as a developer product. The public Staan FAQ pitches a real-time European web search API for AI agents, summarisation, and embedded search ...

Yandex Search now lets users flip from classic results into a full Alice AI dialog tab under the search box. Multi-turn chat, file and image uploads, persistent history — sitting beside the SERP rather than only as a one-shot quick ...

Yandex Wordstat — the demand data SEOs in Russia actually live in — is no longer locked behind a Direct advertising account. Practitioners are documenting Wordstat endpoints inside Yandex Cloud Search API v2, reachable with a normal AI Studio API ...

Yandex has announced a new update for Yandex Maps that expands how walking routes are suggested. Instead of focusing mainly on the fastest way to reach a destination, the service can now recommend routes that match different situations, preferences, and ...

Yandex has introduced several updates to its new Report Wizard, expanding analytics capabilities ahead of its planned rollout as the main SEO and campaign analysis tool in Direct Pro this summer. The latest changes add new regional analysis options, keyword ...

When international marketers think about search competition, they usually picture a familiar environment. A results page dominated by organic listings, supported by ads, and occasionally enhanced by features such as knowledge panels or AI summaries. In China, the reality is ...

When international brands think about search visibility in Asia, the conversation usually centres on large global platforms such as Google or major regional ecosystems like Baidu. Vietnam presents a slightly different picture. While Google still holds a large share of ...

When most discussions about search ranking signals take place, they tend to focus on Google. However, outside the Western search ecosystem, other engines have developed their own ranking logic based on different assumptions about users, behaviour, and geography. One of ...