Google has confirmed it has recently begun running a "small experiment" where it is serving regular pure Search campaigns with restrictive match types in AI Mode. Ginny Marvin, Google's Ads Liaison, told me, "This is a small experiment tha?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-serving-restrictive-match-t...

Google may have a bug with its job search feature because it is barely showing any new jobs within its search results. This has been happening for the past week and it is unclear why.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-job-search-bug-42022.html

This week, we covered how Google for the second time dodged being broken up, this time over its ad tech monopoly. Google AI Overviews are expanding by default...
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-09-04-2026-42015.html

Google Business Profiles seems to be adding a fifth way to verify your business, this new method is by submitting a photo of your business location. The other methods are phone or text, email, live video call or a postcard in the mail.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-business-phot...

Google has expanded access to Waze Ads beyond the United States and to a total of 42 countries. Google updated the PMax help documents in the Google Ads help center with this new information. It now says, "Waze Ads are currently available?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-expands-waze-ads-42018.html

Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by default and a number indicator shows how many more are available. You can then click to expand the sitelinks to show more.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-collapsing-sitelinks-42014....

Microsoft is testing bolding the https portion of the URLs in the Bing Search results. We've seen Microsoft test HTTPS labels in various forms over the years, including using lock icons. But here, Microsoft Bing is being more subtle about?
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-bolded-https-urls-41939.html

Google Ads is now pushing notifications to advertisers for recommendations they have previously dismissed. Google shows a message in the ads console that reads, "You still have dismissed recommendations for this campaign," which you can dis?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-dismissed-recommendations-4...

We got a number of updates coming from OpenAI about ChatGPT Ads and the ChatGPT Ads Manager, we also suspect that the shopping results coming from ChatGPT only come from those who submit product feeds. The other updates include a plugin for?
https://www.seroundtable.com/openai-chatgpt-ads-updates-42017.html

Over the past several days, I have been hearing from some publishers that while their content is being crawled, indexed, and served in Google Search results, some of it is missing from the news tab. It may then later show up in the news ta?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-news-tab-content-disappearing-4...

As you know, Google rolled out Gemini 3.8 Flash for subscribers to AI Mode and some have started to play with it. And the early feedback is that AI Mode running Gemini 3.8 Flash is not link or citation friendly. Meaning, AI Mode with Google?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mode-gemini-38-no-links-4201...

In July, Google began to roll out AI performance reports within Google Merchant Center to United States based merchants. Google said the AI reports are now available to merchants within Australia, Canada, India & New Zealand as well.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-expands-merchant-center-ai-perf...

Google Ads is showing under the status of your ads a label that says "Under Re-Review." It says the ad is eligible but limited and "this ad is serving to a limited audience." It then breaks down where the ad may not be serving.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-under-re-review-status-4197...

Google added some new nuggets to its Google Ads help documentation on about conversion measurement, specifically on phone call conversions and offline conversions.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-phone-call-offline-conversi...

Google's Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, said on X, "Gemini 3.8 Flash has landed in Search." This comes only a couple of weeks after Google brought Gemini 3.7 Flash to AI Mode within Google Search.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ai-mode-gemini-38-42009....

A federal judge in Virginia ruled against breaking up Google's ad tech business after Google was found to be a monopoly over its ad technology platforms. The judge ordered Google to end its practices that depress ad rates for web publishers?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ad-tech-business-ruling-42008.html

Google Trends now lets you filter your results by category, either with or without a query. This can give you a more refined view of the trends for a specific query or zoom you out more on category level trends within Google Search.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-trends-filter-category-42007.html

Google's John Mueller said the Google disavow tool "does have effects," adding, "but it has its place & time." This was in response a complaint about a site dropping in the search results after adding links to the disavow link tool.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-disavow-tool-effects-42004.html

Google Ads added a new section to the how asset groups work help documentation for pre-fill asset groups with generated assets. This section goes over new features like in-construction callout and automatic pre-fill.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-pre-fill-asset-groups-41993...

Google AdSense will change how it counts impressions for display ads starting on February 17, 2027. Google will use what it calls the Begin-to-Render methodology and will only count the impression once the ad has successfully loaded and has?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-adsense-begin-to-render-41992.html

About a month ago, Google announced Tell Maps, a way for Google Maps contributors to use AI to tell Google Maps more about places. "You can suggest edits conversationally, right from Ask Maps and the Contribute tab," Google said about Tell?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-tell-maps-42001.html

Microsoft is testing removing the site names from the Bing search results and instead showing only the site's URL. Google tested this about a year ago, so I guess it makes sense for Bing to test as well.
https://www.seroundtable.com/bing-search-snippets-without-sitenames...

Google Analytics seems to have another bug, this time with data missing from the main charts. September 1, 2026 data is showing zero traffic to websites; I believe this is across every Google Analytics install.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-analytics-broken-42002.html

Google is working on fixing a bug with Local Service Ads where it seems Local Service Ads are being unlinked from the associated Google Business Profiles. There are also complaints of instability and slowness on the Local Service Ads platf?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-service-ads-bug-41999.html

For real this time, Google has released the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports and Search generative AI controls to everyone globally. This follows a slow rollout that began in the first week of June and expanded acces?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-generative-ai-to...

Google Ads has been testing AI-generated snippets and summaries in the sponsored results within Google Search for some time. But now Google is labeling a new section named "What customers love" as "AI-generated from the store rating reviews?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-ai-generated-store-rating-r...

On Friday, Google pushed out a pretty big overhaul of the Performance Max documentation within the Google Ads support area. I've been waiting to compare the old and new documents, but the Wayback Machine has been down for about a week now.
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-pmax-help-doc-updated-41982...

In early August, Google was testing requiring searchers to sign in to verify they are humans to continue to see search results. Now, Google is testing a similar feature without requiring you to sign in, but instead, Google is asking you to?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-verifying-your-request-c...

Google Ads added a new paragraph to the AI Max help documentation for AI Max keyword prioritization." It explains that when "disabling the broad match campaign setting or moving to AI Max, broad keywords are not treated as exact match keywo?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-ai-max-keyword-prioritizati...

It is time for the monthly Google webmaster report, where I recap the larger stories from the past month, specifically related to Google SEO, search, and webmaster/site owner topics...
https://www.seroundtable.com/sept-2026-google-webmaster-report-4197...

Google Discover has been having issues for the past hour or so. Some are reporting that Discover won't load articles, some are reporting that Discover is loading but only after a long waiting period. It seems Google Discover is having stab?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-broken-41991.html

Google's John Mueller was asked if Google would penalize a site for old outbound links to a site that once hosted quality content and now changed ownership and hosts shady content. John said Google won't penalize such links; he said "no" a?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-old-shady-links-41987.html

Google has updated its Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with details on the program. Google has been designated as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA and is thus legally required to share its search data with competing searc?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-european-search-dataset-licensi...

Microsoft Advertising is previewing a new design and usability update for its ad platform. This update has a redesigned navigation and improved tables and layouts. This update should make managing your ad campaigns more efficient and intui?
https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-advertising-updated-design-p...

Google posted a note that it has made enhancements to the Merchant Center's Popular products reports. Specifically, the coverage and insights sections were improved back in June of this year, but Google just posted about this information on?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-merchant-center-popular-product...

Microsoft is now forcing all users to log in before using Copilot, but this currently does not apply to Copilot Search answers within Bing Search. When you try to go directly to Copilot, even by clicking on the Copilot button on Bing's home?
https://www.seroundtable.com/microsoft-copilot-login-41975.html

Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-resourced in its fight against search spam. The spam team continues to update its spam algorithms, such as the latest Google August 20?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-spam-team-fighting-41980...

Google is now showing shopping ads in a carousel format inline within AI Mode results. Plus, Google is also showing a similar ad unit at the bottom of the AI Mode results. We got a lot of ads in AI Mode now, and I guess Google is looking?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mode-shopping-carousel-ads-4...

Google Search is testing pushing searchers into AI Mode from the AI Overview by default, without having to click the "Show more" button. The new AI Overview experience that Google is testing shows a much fuller AI answer, like you'd get in?
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-overviews-push-ai-mode-respo...

Another week...
https://www.seroundtable.com/video-08-28-2026-41963.html