Craig Hordlow

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

Google has posted a new help document explaining the regional differences in the Google Search experience. This document includes information about search experiences available in certain countries, such as aggregator units, supplier units, and carousels.…

The Google Search Console link report has now not been updated for a month. The last time the report was updated with fresh link data was around August 8, 2026 – a month ago.…

Some advertisers are starting to see the new AI dashboards within Google Ads. As a reminder, Google showed off these Gemini-powered Google Ads dashboards last May and then in August said they would roll out soon and I guess now …

Google is testing a new form of responses in AI Mode that offers paginated follow-up questions and responses, with a skip button to skip them.…

Google Business Profiles insights analytics report is missing data for the whole month of September 2026. Normally these reports can be a few days delayed but now we 8 days into the month and I still do not see any …

Google has rolled out its Digital Markets Act changes in Europe and called it the “largest reduction in quality” in the life of Google Search. “The changes mark the largest reduction in quality of service ‘at the world’s most popular …

Google accidentally showed the prompts it uses for some of the insights reports within Google Merchant Center. Instead of providing an easy-to-digest summary of the top product that drove your performance within Merchant Center, it spit out the prompts and …

Google Ads posted a new help document about automated promotions that describes how Google Ads can and does automatically identify and apply active promotional offers directly from your website.…

Google’s new DMA booking search widgets now carry a disclaimer to explain that the prices listed in that block are customized “based on factors such as your device type.” It is unclear what other factors are being used outside of …

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

Google’s John Mueller went off again on programmatic SEO, this time saying that programmatic SEO can “often leads to a site that’s either spam, borderline spam, or low quality,” he wrote. These tactics can often lead Google’s “systems have possibly …

Google has confirmed it has recently begun running a “small experiment” where it is serving regular pure Search campaigns with restrictive match types in AI Mode. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, told me, “This is a small experiment that recently …

Google may have a bug with its job search feature because it is barely showing any new jobs within its search results. This has been happening for the past week and it is unclear why.…

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