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Google has begun rolling out a spam algorithm update that will take approximately two weeks to fully deploy across its index.
Google has activated SAFE, an AI spam detector designed to catch AI-generated content spam, likely integrated into its broader spam-fighting efforts.
Google deployed its fourth spam update of 2026 and expanded Search Console with multimodal search filters and new Page Experience metrics.
Google's AI Overview links lead either to external websites or to its own AI Mode feature, and Search Console tracks these two traffic sources separately.
OpenAI's AI trainers used AI tools to shortcut their work instead of completing tasks manually, per 404 Media.
A LeanData survey found 93% of B2B go-to-market teams have deployed AI agents, yet nearly one-third don't know how many agents they're running and 30% have discovered unaudited actions.
Google Local Services Ads have switched to displaying Google Business Profile phone numbers for call tracking instead of advertiser-specified Google Ads numbers, and the change appears to be permanent.
Bing is testing an editable icon on search images that lets users modify them using Bing's AI image editing feature.
Microsoft is testing renaming Bing's Copilot search tab to AI Mode, aligning its naming with Google's terminology.