Here is a recap of what happened in the hunt forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and another hunt forums on the web.
Third-party Google Search tracking tools are failing since Google is blocking them way too often. Google is evaluation using AI to arrive up alongside suggested goals and resources for your Google Ads campaigns. Microsoft announced Microsoft-Decision-1 final week and it is already being experimented alongside in the two Bing Search and Copilot. Google says mediocre depiction norm volition not halt products from showing in Google Search or Ads. Google volition display AI Overviews for typos and whenever Search finds no results. The hunt achievement reports in Google Search Console were extremely delayed complete the weekend.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Third-Party Google Rank Tracking Struggling Now
Google seems to be successfully blocking adequate of the attempts of scrapers from trying to scrap data from its hunt results leaf complete the former few weeks than it has in a lengthy time. We reported this a few weeks ago, and I am amazed to see that many tools motionless battle alongside Google Search reporting. - Google Ads Tests Using Google AI For Goals & Assets
Google is evaluation using AI to arrive up alongside suggested goals and resources for your Google Ads campaigns. Google has confirmed this is a current test. - Bing & Copilot Experimenting With Microsoft-Decision-1
Microsoft announced Microsoft-Decision-1 final week and it is already being experimented alongside in the two Bing Search and Copilot. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a "decision-scoring example delivers top achievement in latency and norm on organized decision tasks to outperform the two LLMs and another decision models," Microsoft said. - Google AI Overviews For Typos & No Search Results
Yes, Google frequently shows AI Overviews whenever Google Search cannot equivalent particular web pages or whenever it thinks your query is a typo. In fact, Google AI Overviews can react by saying, "It looks akin your communication power have been a typo or random keyboard input." - Google: Poor Image Quality Won't Stop Products From Showing In Search Or Ads
Google has updated its Google Merchant Center low depiction norm assistance document to now say that mediocre depiction norm volition not halt those products from showing in Google Search or Google Ads. - Google Search Console Performance Report Extremely Delayed
The hunt achievement reports in Google Search Console is now complete 64 hours delayed, which is incredibly different for this report. Generally, we see this study updated inside a few hours but complete the former few days, post-spam update, the study has been lagging. - Noogler Cupcakes
Here are tradition designed Noogler cupcakes from the Google Dublin office. Nooglers are new Googlers who fair got hired by Google. So Google gave them particular cupcakes.
Other Great Search Threads:
- Bing alongside updated layout for sponored ads results section. Also the cta clasp normally it was coloured but now transparent., Khushal Bherwani on X
- Google Discover has fair introduced Bluesky cards, akin to those for X(.)com, Threads, and TikTok. We see a cardstock showing a Bluesky article and a clickable CNN link. That is, as alongside X(.)com, and Threads, the CNN(.)com nexus contained inside the Bluesky article is directly, Damien Andell on X
- Thanks for bringing this to our attention. That's not accurate. The Help Center part on this is up-to-date: "If you don't desire your video to assist on YouTube, you may use an unlisted YouTube video in the campaign." More here, AdsLiaison on X
- We’re experimenting alongside it in Copilot and it’s beautiful good! Very impressed alongside how quickly they improved it as well., Rangan Majumder on X
- When sites autumn for their center queries because of important algorithm updates, another queries can display up prominently in GSC since the another center queries are now gone... If think those newish queries are scary or hazardous (and you accept they are really NEW), I extremely propose exporting, Glenn Gabe on X
- ChatGPT's total website visits grew by 3.35% in Q3 compared to the former quarter., Similarweb on X
- I don't think this would be considered a UGC platform, sorry! Sitemaps seems additional fitting, anywhere do we citation not to use them? Would unavailable following activity for several of these, or is it continually unidentified onward of time?, John Mueller on Bluesky
- Google wants to change Google Discover into a proactive, hyper-personalized feed. This comes from the job posting for Principal, UX, Search Discover. Director+ level. Mountain View, CA or New York, NY. The posting says this individual volition run the UX scheme and implementation for, Damien Andell on X
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Google Ads adds automatic content overlays to Demand Gen video ads
- Google launches Display & Video 360 Structured Data Files v11 alongside expanded targeting
- The latest jobs in hunt marketing
- Your chief is nervous concerning AI, too
- What Google AI Mode follow-up questions disclose concerning your content
- Google AI Mode ads: Everything you need to know
- The PPC marketer’s guide to Google’s Meridian
Other Great Search Stories:
AI & LLMs
- AI companies storyline "day after" scenarios for community revolt, Axios
- Google Employees Praise Latest Gemini 4 Internal Model, Business Insider
- Senate Report Challenges Big Tech’s Case for AI Data Centers, TIME
Analytics
- User Groups Admin API, Google Analytics Help
Industry & Business
- The Desperate Hunt for AI Computing Power Is Upending Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal
- The Other Anthropic Founder Trying to Fix the Company’s ‘Woke’ Reputation, Wall Street Journal
- 28 AI Search Experts Who Actually Advance the Field (2026), I Love SEO
- The Attractive Economics Behind Anthropic Data Center Sprint, The Information
- Yandex: Ukraine strikes data centre in third assault on Russian tech giant, BBC
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
- Plumbers Without Websites: More than 1 in 3 on Google Maps Have None, Sixth City Marketing
- Google Maps Showing Accident Alerts Everywhere, So What's Going On?, Autoevolution
- This Gemini Map characteristic solved my biggest hunt frustration in seconds, Android Police
Other Search
PPC
- FouAnalytics and fraud0 Partner to Bring Automated Google Ads Refunds to the World's Largest Advertisers, PR Newswire
- Google tests new scheme for ads at base of AI Mode responses, Search Engine Watch
- Google Redefines Video Engagements: 10 Seconds Now Required, PPC News Feed
- Microsoft Adds Messaging Guidelines to Text Guardrails, PPC News Feed
- Video Reach Campaigns Get Automated Bidding in Beta, PPC News Feed
- Google Explains Suspensions for Suspicious Payment Activity, PPC News Feed
- Google Clarifies GG_ Transaction IDs, PPC News Feed
- Google LSA's October Update Creates a New Lead Attribution Problem, HackerNoon
Search Features
- Bing tests ray blue bubbles for sitelinks on desktop, Search Engine Watch
- The SERP Stops Being the Default Between 2028 and 2030, and the Place It Moves Already Exists, Duane Forrester Decodes
SEO
- How to scheme 2027 whenever traffic is downward and AI won't attribute, Growth Memo
- SEO Migrations For Enterprise: How To Plan, Execute And Assess A Site Migration, Prosperity Media
- What is Site Authority? The siteAuthority Signal in the Google Leak, Hobo
- Spam, Spam, AI, and Spam: What’s Really Happening alongside Google’s Latest Updates, Liz Bowers
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