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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 23, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……
Secure Your Google Ads Account Against The Rise In Hijackings
For the past year or so, I’ve seen a growing number of complaints about Google Ads accounts being hijacked. It seems to be getting worse, even after we covered the Google Ads account hijacks last November. So how do you …
Gemini Local Results Insights Into How Google Interprets Your Business
Google’s Gemini may be rolling out new local results, it may be new, I am not sure. But the details it shows may give you insight into how Google understands and interprets your business. Gemini gives new headlines and sections …
Google Ads PMax Asset Group Editing Bug
Google Ads currently has a bug where if you try to edit your asset groups within your Performance Max campaigns in the web user interface, it simply won’t work. Google is reportedly aware of the issue and is telling advertisers …
Google Falls Back To Featured Snippets When AI Overviews Don’t Generate
Google will sometimes fall back to showing featured snippets when it is unable to generate AI Overviews for a query. And when that happens, it sometimes looks like an AI Overview, but it is not an AI Overview, it is …
Google Search Gains Personal Intelligence In AI Mode
As expected, but sooner than I thought, Google has brought Personal Intelligence to Google Search within AI Mode. This first launched last week in the Gemini app and is now rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in …
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Double Heated, Personal Intelligence in AI Mode, ChatGPT Ads & Apple Siri Updates Coming
This week, we covered the doubly heated Google Search ranking volatility, but nothing was confirmed by Google. OpenAI will soon test ads in ChatGPT responses and they will charge on an impression basis……
How to Automate Marketing With 8 Simple Workflows
Everybody wants smoother workflows and fewer manual tasks. And thanks to AI models, automation is at the center of conversations in marketing departments across all industries.
But most rarely get the results they’re looking for.
According to Ascend2’s State of …
Daily Search Forum Recap: January 22, 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.
Apple to have two different releases of Siri and Apple Intelligence, powered by …
New GoogleBot: Google Messages
Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher “used to generate link previews for URLs sent in chat messages,” …
Google Search Makes Recipe Results More Publisher Friendly
A few weeks ago, we covered how damaging the Google Search results were for recipe publishers and bloggers. It was nicknamed Frankenstein recipes because it would take pieces of these recipes from bloggers, mash them together and ruin them, all …
OpenAI To Charge Based On Ad View Impressions, Not Clicks
As you know, OpenAI will soon show ads on ChatGPT, but now we are hearing that those ads will be charged on a pay-per-view, impression-based model, not a click-based, cost-per-click model.…
Apple Releasing Two New Siri; iOS 26.4 & iOS 27 (Campos, Rave & Fizz)
Apple will reportedly release two new Siri versions, one this year with iOS 26.4 and one next year with iOS 27. Plus, Apple may release an AI pin wearable device in 2027.…
Google Ads Posts New Call & Messaging Ads Terms
Google Ads has posted new call and messaging ads terms that advertisers need to agree to in order to use those ad products. Anthony Higman posted about it on X and said, “There are some important new updates here.”…



