A few notes and takeaways from the 2026 State of CSS survey results, including a nice CSS-Tricks cameo!

2026 State of CSS, Devs Surveys originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

We’re kickstarting a brand new series here at SEW, where we will do our best to watch and report in search engines’ updates. As you are probably aware, not all of them are announced, only the bigger ones. However, a lot of webmasters, publishers and agencies report ongoing fluctuations and volatility. Tracking potential Google algorithm updates […]

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Bing is testing a new section on its search results page called “Top Source.” Based on what we’re seeing, this section appears to group together multiple pieces of content whether individual pages or news articles from a single site. Here is the screenshot of how it looks.   Here is the X post. We’ve noticed […]

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Google recently rolled out a preferred sources feature on the search results page. When a user selects a website as a preferred source, that site’s content is more likely to show up in Top Stories and gets highlighted as a preferred source within AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here is a screenshot of how it […]

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ChatGPT ads are becoming much more like Google Shopping. OpenAI is reportedly rolling out a new carousel format that can place several products inside one ad at the bottom of a conversation. Digiday says it verified the format after seeing screenshots. Until now, ChatGPT ads have generally promoted one product at a time. The carousel […]

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Google is testing a new subheading within its Sponsored results carousel called “Featured products,” with the description “From online or local stores” underneath it. We’re seeing this tested on both mobile and desktop. Here is the screenshot. In the example above, a search for wheelchairs shows the usual Sponsored results carousel, but now with this […]

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Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals are leaving to form a new AI company. Demis Hassabis is handing daily control of Google DeepMind to one of his longest-serving deputies. Four engineers whose work runs through Google Search, the company’s computing infrastructure and Gemini are leaving to start a new AI venture. At […]

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Apple’s advertising business set a new June-quarter revenue record, according to comments made during the company’s latest earnings call. One important number remains missing: Apple still does not report advertising revenue separately. The company generated $30.74 billion from Services during its fiscal third quarter, up 12% from $27.42 billion one year earlier. Apple’s regulatory filing […]

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Marketers should be cautious about using AI visibility scores to make budget or strategy decisions, according to new industry guidance. The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), a trade group representing the digital advertising industry, says many current tools provide directional signals rather than reliable business intelligence. These tools measure how often brands and websites appear across […]

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Today, with CSS gap decorations fully supported in Chrome and Edge, starting with version 149, you can now very easily style gaps, and with a lot of control.

Gap Decorations Are Now Available, Here’s What’s New originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

We recently got the shape() function and corner-shape property. What else could we possibly need as far as making shapes in CSS? Let me tell you: the border-shape property!

Get Ready For the Powerful CSS border-shape Property! originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.

The soon-Baseline sibling-index() function for animations, CSS and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, use cases for the infinity keyword, container "stuck" queries, and more.

What’s !important #16: sibling-index() Animations, Use Cases for the infinity Keyword, Container Stuck Queries, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.