Daily Search Forum Recap: June 11, 2026

Here is simply a recap of what happened successful the hunt forums today, done the eyes of the MCP and different hunt forums connected the web.

Google Search was unaffected by yesterday's Gemini outage, which is bully to know. Google now lets you link Gemini to Google Business Profiles for help. Google Business Profiles added WhatsApp numbers to galore Google Business Profiles. Google is testing dotted underlined and shaded URLs successful the snippets. Google Ads is testing images successful Sitelinks. Google Merchant Center has a contented API rumor causing merchandise provender slowdowns. ChatGPT Ad Manager now supports merchandise feeds for advertisement creation.

MCP Stories:

• Google Search Was Unaffected By Gemini Outage
  Google Search and its hunt generative features for illustration AI Mode and AI Overviews were unaffected by yesterday's Gemini outage. Gemini, which is Google's AI product, had respective outages passim yesterday and we cognize that Gemini powers immoderate of Google Search, truthful I was funny if the outage had immoderate effect connected Google Search.
• Gemini Can Help With Your Google Business Profiles
  Google will soon let you to link Google Business Profiles pinch Gemini. This will let you to inquire questions astir your reviews, your section listing and capacity wrong Google Maps and Google Search.
• WhatsApp Numbers Added To Google Business Profiles In Bulk
  Google seems to person added WhatsApp telephone numbers to tons of Google Business Profiles automatically complete the past week. Google has sent email notifications to immoderate of those businesses, and successful immoderate cases, the numbers are incorrect aliases they are not reachable.
• Google Merchant Center Temporary Delay On Product Submissions
  Google Merchant Center has API issues, causing a impermanent hold successful merchandise submissions. Google posted the announcement successful the Merchant Center portal and connected its position page.
• Google Tests Dotted Underlined & Shaded URLs In Search Snippet
  Google is testing utilizing a dotted underline and a shaded URL for the hunt consequence snippet's URL. Yesterday, we covered really Google was testing a bluish dotted underline for sitelinks wrong the sponsored results. But now we are seeing dotted underlines and shaded URLs for integrated hunt consequence snippets.
• ChatGPT Ads Gains Upload Product Feeds For Ad Creation
  OpenAI has upgraded its ChatGPT Ads Manager instrumentality to let advertisers to upload merchandise feeds that automatically create ads for each uploaded product. This evidently makes it easier to person ads connected ChatGPT for retailers.
• Google Ads Sitelinks With Images
  Google Ads is testing showing images wrong the sitelinks information of the advertisement unit. I've seen plentifulness of images successful the main information of the sponsored hunt results but I don't judge I've seen images successful the sitelinks area of the sponsored results.
• Google Workout Plank Game
  I recovered this video from the Google agency connected Instagram of Googlers doing a workout, a plank...

Other Great Search Threads:

• Following Schema.org's charismatic merchandise of their world usage statistic dataset, I wanted to build thing actionable for the community. Introducing schemastats.com A free, interactive dashboard to track, f, Stefano connected X
• Heads up: Gemini is presently experiencing an outage. We're connected it and will get everything backmost up ASAP. Some of the fixes are in, the remainder coming very soon. Stay tuned for updates, and acknowledgment for base pinch us!, Josh Woodward connected X
• Let's talk astir Microsoft Advertising relationship level settings!, Navah Hopkins connected LinkedIn
• The WebMCP root proceedings is now disposable successful Chrome 149 → https://t.co/L8A9oQMlF9 Sign up to merge experimental features for unrecorded testing and thief style early iterations of the API. Build system devices truthful agents, Chrome for Developers connected X

MCP Stories:

• Schema.org now shows you really galore sites are utilizing each schema type
• Ginny Marvin clarifies AI Max, AI Search ads and what advertisers should prioritize aft GML
• Publishers push Common Crawl to extremity collecting contented for AI training
• How to make punctual search overmuch much accurate
• Google tin beryllium straight liable for mendacious AI Overview claims: German court
• How to make SEO reports much actionable
• How existent group really punctual AI — and what it intends for GEO
• 11 PPC errors uncovered successful caller B2B audits

Other Great Search Stories:

AI & LLMs

• 4 ways researchers are moving pinch Google’s Co-Scientist to lick problems, Google Blog
• China-linked groups utilized ChatGPT to target US tariff, AI information halfway debates, Axios
• Gemini successful Chrome expanding to much markets, Google Blog
• Half of Americans fearfulness AI could put personification successful their family retired of work, Reuters/Ipsos canvass finds, Reuters
• OpenAI, Visa Team Up to Let AI Agents Make Purchases Online, Bloomberg
• Study and exam thief pinch Google AI tools, Google Blog
• The Future Report: Why young group must thief style the early of AI, Google Blog

Analytics

• How to Set Up Amplitude pinch Google Tag Manager, Krista Seiden
• How to Track On-Site Search successful GA4 (And Use the Data), KP Playbook

Industry & Business

• Announcing Sol transatlantic cable, Google Cloud Blog
• Global AI indebtedness issuance to apical $500 cardinal successful 2026, Morgan Stanley says, Reuters
• Google quantum exec: US authorities backing would’ve travel pinch ‘conditions’, Semafor
• Google signs grounds sustainable aviation substance woody pinch American Airlines, Data Center Dynamics
• Google will prevention your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training, The Verge
• Google won’t conscionable admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its euphony AI, The Verge
• Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's ain words and makes it liable for mendacious answers, The Decoder
• New York Passes Legislation Requiring AI Disclosures successful News Content, The Wrap
• OpenAI Preps New AI Model, Expects To Go Public ‘Within the Next Year’, The Information

Links & Content Marketing

• Creator Content Now Powers 44% of Paid Media Creative arsenic the Traditional Marketing Funnel Compresses, CreatorIQ Report Finds, Business Wire
• Embed Consumer Insights Across Marketing, Content Marketing Institute

Local & Maps

• Google Maps Vs. Apple Maps: Which Is The Best Navigation App In 2026?, SlashGear
• I ne'er expected Google Maps to go my favourite recreation readying app, Android Police

SEO

• Core Roars Back With Google's May 2026 Broad Core Update - Interesting Cases, Findings, and Analysis, GSQI
• Google is building an Audience Loyalty ecosystem, SEO for Google News
• Query Fan-Out: What It Is and How It Affects AI Visibility, Backlinko
• Your Search Results Are Getting Sloptimized, The Atlantic
• 7 Ways to Scrutinize SEO Studies to Determine Significance, JumpFly

PPC

• PPC Power: How to Feed the Machine Stronger Signals, SearchLab Digital
• The lucifer type is dead. Long unrecorded the keyword., Hopskip Media
• Connecting Claude to Google Ads: What PPC Professionals Need to Know, PPC Live

Search Features

• ChatGPT was caught recommending clone scam stores, Android Authority
• I tried Siri AI, and truthful acold it really works, The Verge
• New Gemini app features for mini businesses, Google Blog
• Simplified controls successful the exemplary picker, ChatGPT Release Notes

Other Search

• Google Gemini Smart Glasses Launching In Fall To Take On Meta, UploadVR

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