Craig Hordlow

Google announced it will “entirely” turn off Google Search, along with Gemini, Gemini Notebook, and Gemini in Classroom for K-12 schools. “Access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on,” …

Google Search Console’s performance report is showing a weird spike in clicks for some sites over the past couple of days. It is not impacting all sites, and it might be a bug, but some are seeing this huge increase …

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

Google Ads updated its How Performance Max interacts with other campaigns in your account help document to add a new section on how “Performance Max campaigns may also filter out navigational or brand-specific search queries to prioritize serving them through …

Google Ads improved the asset scheduling advanced options to let you group days, such as weekends versus weekdays and more. This can be found under the advanced options within asset scheduling in Google Ads.…

Google is supposedly testing removing the AI Mode button from the Google Search bar. I cannot replicate this, but it doesn’t surprise me that Google would test removing the AI Mode bar for a tiny subset of searchers to compare …

Is your home page the only page indexed by Google Search? Were other pages of your site previously indexed and are no longer showing up in Google’s index? Well, that might be a Google Search quality issue with your website.…

Over the weekend, I tested out using Google AI Mode to get flight information and 100% of the time, the only links available within the AI Mode responses were to Google Flights. I am sure the Digital Markets Act (DMA) …

Google has moved the AI Overviews for many brand-related keywords to the right-hand column of the search results page. Previously, they appeared at the top or middle of the main search results section.…

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 and Microsoft, as well as OpenAI and Anthropic……

Reddit’s stock dropped 36% over the past week after Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, confirmed Google Search traffic has been declining for the popular social media site. Of course, every SEO on this planet knew this would happen eventually, and it …

Google has added a new “Promotions offers” section within the Promotions section in Google Ads. This lets you quickly filter your promotions by these three statuses, offered, expired and invalidated.…

Gary Illyes from Google has implied that click data and query data are likely not coming to the AI performance report in Google Search Console. Gary Illyes wrote that the Search Console team is interested in bringing “data that makes …

Google Ads Strategists, who are part of the Google Extended Workforce, are using AI-generated profile photos and names when reaching out to advertisers. An email sent from Kassy Garcia from Google to Joe Youngblood seems legit but when you look …

It is time for the big Google Webmaster report, the November 2026 edition, where I recap all the big changes Google made organically in Google Search. Of course, the big one is that Google completed its September 2026 spam update …