Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2025

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 seems to be showing more and more AI Overviews these days and even for many large brand names. It don’t have a ton of data but Google does seems to be showing more and AI Overviews for almost every large brand name except for Google’s own name and news publications.

A Google Search bug from this morning led to the search results being overwhelmed with just ads. This is obviously a Google Search serving bug where Google had a glitch and was unable to serve the proper amount of organic/free results.