Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said it again, that Google does not have a system to recognize if a site is run by a big brand and then automatically just ranks it higher. He said on X, “but no, we don’t have a brand-ranking system.”
Related Posts
Google AI Overview New Links UI, Save, Simpler Mode & More Countries
Google announced a number of new features across its AI Overviews, including the new links test we saw going live. Google also is adding new Search Labs features and is expanding AI Overviews to more countries.
Google: Search Ranking Update Coming Soon But HCU Victims Should Move On
Google held that Web Creator summit yesterday at the GooglePlex, where Google told victims of previous search ranking updates including the September 2023 helpful content update, that a new search ranking update is coming fairly or very soon, but if they were hit by the helpful content update, they should not expect to recover and they likely should move on to new things.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 25, 2026
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 released the Google June 2026 spam update yesterday afternoon…
