Daily Search Forum Recap: May 27, 2026

Google seems to be successfully blocking enough of the attempts of scrapers from trying to scrape data from its search results page over the past few weeks than it has in a long time. We reported this a few weeks ago, and I am surprised to see that many tools still struggle with Google Search reporting.

Yesterday, Google announced it was “renaming and updating the Default Ads Treatment policy to improve the clarity and transparency of the policy.” But it did one more thing, it removed “shocking content” from the list of categories of ads that would not be shown while Google was determining the user’s age.

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.