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Google Search Console's performance report date picker is malfunctioning, with the end date locked to 1969 and rejecting any newer dates.
Google is reportedly poisoning its search results with deliberately bad data to interfere with rival AI scrapers training on the web.
Google's updated content guidance now requires manual fact-checking and human review of all AI-generated content, including metadata, but offers no guarantee that compliance will restore lost traffic.
Research of 1,650 responses found AI systems recommend different brands depending on which language a query is posed in.
Google's Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed how Google crawls, indexes, and ranks PDFs, including file limits and link handling.
Google has expanded pharmaceutical ads to appear in AI Mode and AI Overviews, according to a company spokesperson.
Google's John Mueller clarified that site migrations can take four months or longer to process fully, and offered guidance on what to prioritize during the transition.
Google is adding gluten-free, dairy-free, halal, and kosher dietary attributes to Google Business Profiles for restaurants.
Google Merchant Center is experiencing an issue where video uploads remain stuck in preview processing, preventing videos from displaying in product listings.
Microsoft Bing launched Topics Portfolio in Webmaster Tools to help publishers analyze their content's thematic distribution, demand, and competitive positioning.
Salesforce is acquiring Loops, an AI analytics platform, to integrate its causal-analysis capabilities into Tableau.
A site owner reported that Google began showing their old domain in search results again, four months after completing a migration to a new domain.
Google is hiring for a principal UX role focused on transforming Discover into a more proactive, personalized recommendation engine.
SAP's customer loyalty research finds AI increases brand loyalty for 31% of consumers but drives 30% away, with 60% preferring shared human-AI control over full automation.
Zeta Global pushed enterprise AI initiatives at Advertising Week while executives privately worried about Apple's ad-targeting restrictions.
Google made its Gemini 4 Argon model available through AI Mode for paid subscribers and to developers and enterprises.
Publicis describes its AI transformation as uneven, with Sapient underperforming while agentic AI systems help win pitches without traditional presentations.