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September 2026 Spam Update Begins Rolling Out, With a Two-Week Window

Google released its fourth spam update of 2026 on 24 September and says the rollout may take up to two weeks — far longer than the three earlier 2026 spam updates, which each finished in under three days.

Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read

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Search Console Adds Multimodal Search Reporting for Lens, Circle to Search and Image Uploads

Sep 24, 2026 · 6 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Adds creator and Updated interactionStatistic Docs to Video Structured Data

Sep 24, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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CMA Strengthens Google Search Choice Screen Proposals to Include AI Assistants

Sep 23, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google AdSense Drops Identity Verification Threshold to $0

Sep 23, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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IndexNow for HubSpot Websites: Why It Needs an App Like IndexNow Sync

Sep 22, 2026 · 7 min read · Paul Lovell

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Cloudflare's 15 September Change to AI Crawler Access, Measured

Sep 21, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Business Profiles Adds a 'Collected Info' Tab for Reviewing Automated Data

Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Discover on Desktop Is Gone Again

Sep 18, 2026 · 3 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Drops the Search Profile Threshold to 10,000 Followers — and Adds Multi-Brand Management

Sep 17, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

Google Updates

Google's Agentic Commerce Push: UCP Checkout, AI Share of Voice and a Business Agent Inside YouTube Ads

Sep 16, 2026 · 6 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Has Documented Its Replacement for the Custom Search API — and You Can't Have It

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Search Live Now Runs on Gemini 3.8 Live — and It's Available to Everyone

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Chrome Just Put Your Ad Load on the Public Record — and ads.txt Decides Whether You're In It

Sep 16, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Business Profile Post Views Are Back After Three and a Half Years — With Search and Maps Merged Into One Number

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Two GEO Experiments Found PR Produced 0.2% of AI Citations. Third-Party Listicles Produced 85.8%.

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Says It Can't Report AI Search Properly Yet — and Is Asking the Industry for Ideas

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Ads Appear on 29% of Commercial AI Mode Queries — and the Advertiser Usually Isn't a Source

Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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Google Has Started Paying Some Publishers When Their Content Feeds AI Answers

Sep 14, 2026 · 5 min read · Paul Lovell

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Apple Maps Ads Are Six Weeks Old and the First Performance Reports Are Landing

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell

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A DeepMind Paper Says One Model Can Replace the Two-Stage Ranking Pipeline. It Is Not in Google Search.

Sep 14, 2026 · 4 min read · Paul Lovell