Google is rolling out a Search Console toggle that lets website owners opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode, starting with UK testing.

Google deployed its fourth spam update of 2026 and expanded Search Console with multimodal search filters and new Page Experience metrics.

Google confirmed a temporary Search Console indexing bug and acknowledged its biggest EU search quality reduction due to DMA compliance changes.

Google is pausing enforcement of its spam policy within the European Union.

Google Search and News tabs experienced a bug preventing the 'Recent' filter from working, which was confirmed and fixed within hours.

Google's robots.txt recrawl feature in Search Console is throwing errors for multiple users, though the issue appears intermittent.

SERoundtable reports that Google Search Console sent widespread email alerts incorrectly flagging existing account owners as newly added, later confirmed as a bug.