Craig Hordlow

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google now won’t use spam reports with personal identifiable information. Google’s head of …

A couple of weeks ago, Google stunned many by saying that they updated their spam report to pass along all information to the site that you enter in the spam report. There was a lot of backlash to that and …

Google is working to fix a bug in AI Mode where it is changing the title links and citations. This bug was spotted by Lily Ray who wrote on X, “Google is changing title links / citations in AI Mode …

Here is another interview from Google’s head of search, Liz Reid. This one was done on the Odd Lots Bloomberg podcast and is titled “Google’s Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI.”…

This week, we covered new heated Google search ranking volatility. Google’s Danny Sullivan spoke about commodity versus non-commodity content. Google now wont use spam reports with personality identifiable……

Google Business Profiles lets you upload photos of your business to your Business Profile. Those photos can be viewed on Google Search and Google Maps. And now, these photos are reportedly sorted by most recently uploaded.…

About a year ago, Google announced you can opt in, within Search Labs, to see Audio Overviews within the Google Search results. But now, I saw two different people say they saw it without opting into the experiment. So Google …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

We are seeing Google volatility get heated again……

Danny Sullivan from Google spoke at the Google Search Central event in Toronto a couple of days ago and a few of his slides spoke about it is important to produce “unique, authentic and non-commodity content.” And then Sullivan dug …

Google recently posted a new job listing for a GEO Partner Manager. The position calls for you to be responsible for the “transition Google’s engagement model from Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) discovery to formal ecosystem advocacy.”…

Google has released version 24 of the Google Ads API, this is a major release with dozens of updates. This update includes changes to Demand Gen, travel feeds, conversion types, shopping, reporting, videos, and much more.…

Google is experimenting with the new tab view in Chrome. This view brings more Gemini features to the forefront, such as Deep Search and Create Images.…

Google may now hold your review replies for approval before showing them in Google Maps or Google Search. Previously, those replies were immediately shown but that may have changed.…

I know it has been a while since I covered the Google Search ranking volatility and algorithm twitches but I am now seeing signs of the volatility heating up. These signs are mostly coming from the tools; the community seems …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Microsoft Advertising has announced the launch of several new AI features and upgrades across the ad platform. This is to “To help businesses succeed across all three eras of the human, LLM, and agentic web,” Microsoft wrote.…