Google Says Reddit Gets No Special Preference In Google Search

Google's communications representative, Jennifer Kutz, told The Verge that Reddit gets no preference in Google Search or Google's AI Search features. Kutz told The Verge that Reddit "gets no special p...

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Google Assistant Shutting Down September 4, 2026

We knew this day was coming, and now Google has sent out emails announcing the date when Google Assistant will be going away on mobile devices. The date is September 4, 2026, and Gemini will replace G...

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Google Ads Government Documents and Services Policy To Be Updated On October 5, 2026

Google will be updating its Other restricted businesses: Government documents and services policy on October 5, 2026. There are a lot of changes coming to this policy, so if you are in the business t...

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Bing Top Source Feature

Microsoft is testing a "Top Source" section within the Bing Search results interface. This section shows the Top Source with various sections from the site or various news articles from the site.

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Google Renames Local Services Platform Policies To Local Services Ads Requirements

Google has renamed the Local Services platform policies document to Local Services Ads requirements. I am not sure if this was renamed and reworded because the Google Local Service Ads platform is bei...

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Googlers Cleaning Used Sneakers

Here are some Googlers volunteering their time to clean old, used and some dirty sneakers, to donate to those who are less fortunate.

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August 2026 Google Webmaster Report: Google Volatility, Search Console, Bugs, Lawsuits & Growth

Here is the big Google Webmaster Report for August 2026, including of course the ongoing Google search ranking volatility; we saw volatility on...

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Google Ads Testing Anchor Text Hyperlinks In Ad Descriptions

Google is testing adding keyword-rich anchor text hyperlinks to the ad descriptions in the sponsored results within Google Search. Clicking on the link takes you to the same ad landing page URL as it...

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Google Ads Ad Preview & Diagnosis Not Working

The Google Ads Ad Preview and Diagnosis tool, where you can preview your ads in the Google Search results, within the Google Ads interface is broken. It loads a CAPTCHA box and doesn't let you remove ...

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Google Ads Text Disclaimer Override Pinned Descriptions

Google Ads is testing a new text disclaimer feature that lets you set the text disclaimer to override descriptions pinned to position 1. This is labeled as "new" under where you add text disclaimers i...

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Google Austin Sail Tower Office

Google announced the opening of its newest office building called Sail Tower. It is in Austin, Texas and Google posted a number of photos on X and on its blog.

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It's New 8/3 Google Volatility, Bing Webmaster Tools Filters, Sign-In To Search & ChatGPT Agent Type

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Google Search Ranking Volatility August 1 to August 3

I am seeing signs of another Google Search ranking update with a lot of volatility hitting this past weekend again. This one started on Saturday, August 1st, and has continued thus far through today, ...

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Google Business Profiles On How To Protect From Fraudulent Calls and Texts

The Google Business Profile help page on Help protect against fraudulent calls and texts has been updated. It now includes how to identify legitimate texts over WhatsApp and RCS messages, it also upda...

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Bing Webmaster Tools To Gain Page & Query Level Filtering

Microsoft has confirmed it is working on bringing filtering capabilities to the Bing Webmaster Tools performance reports. Right now, there is no way to add a filter for any of the metrics in the repo...

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Google Search Testing Sign In To Verify Searches Are Human

Google Search is testing asking searchers to sign in to verify they are humans and not bots conducting the searches. I don't think Google has done this before, geneally when Google tries to verify hum...

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Google Trends Lets You Compare More Search Terms

Google Trends now lets you compare up to 400 search terms across 8 groups of terms and up to 50 terms in each group. Previously, it was 125 search terms across 5 groups of terms and up to 25 terms in ...

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Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP/POX APIs Retires August 31, 2026

Microsoft will be retiring the Bing Webmaster Tools SOAP/POX APIs on August 31, 2026. If you use these legacy APIs you should begin to migrate to the JSON/HTTP (REST) API version.

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Google 'Super G' Statue Gets Gradient Design

Google put a Google 'G' statue with the new gradient Google logo design outside of the Bay View office. This is a 15 foot tall statue, it is pretty massive.

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Google Search Filter By Recent Not Working

If you try to filter you Google Search or Google News tab results by the recent search tools option, it simply won't work. If you try to select the "Tools" and then "Recent" options, including the pa...

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Google Search Filter By Recent Not Working

If you try to filter you Google Search or Google News tab results by the recent search tools option, it simply won't work. If you try to select the "Tools" and then "Recent" options, including the pa...

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Google Platform Properties Live, Google Ads Lead Journey Mapping, Microsoft Ads, ChatGPT Ads & SEO

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Microsoft Advertising Predictive Matching Moving To Search Term Matching

Microsoft Advertising is moving its Predictive Matching targeting option to Search term matching within AI Max. Microsoft added a note to various help document pages about the change, it says:

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Blocking Internal Search Results Not In Google Guidelines But They Can Cause Issues

In the latest Search Off the Record podcast, John Mueller from Google said that it is no longer in the Google Guidelines, now Google Search Essentials, that you must block Google from accessing your i...

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Google Ads Insights Carousel: Top Things To Know Today

Google Ads may be rolling out a new design for its insights section where it gives you the "Top things to know today." This new interface for this section is in a carousel format, where you can toggle...

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OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Manager With Business Agent Conversation Campaign Type

OpenAI is testing a new campaign type named Agent, which allows you to send ChatGPT searchers and users to a Business Agent conversation. So instead of just going to your website, you send them into ...

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Google Business Profiles Products Pending Status Bug

Google has yet another bug with the Google Business Profiles platform. This one is with products being placed in "Pending" status, new products and old products, I believe. This started a couple of da...

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