Publisher traffic from Google Search and Discover fell 40% year-over-year, according to new reporting.

An OpenAI engineer's court filing claims users of generative chat interfaces won't click links, backed by Microsoft data showing lower CTRs in Bing Chat versus traditional search.

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

Search Console's block flattening feature makes AI Overview presence appear stronger than actual visibility, requiring practitioners to shift from position-based to outcome-based metrics.

Google's September spam update is rolling out over two weeks; Search Console now shows image search data and AI Mode traffic separately.

Google has released multimodal search performance reporting in Search Console so publishers can track how their content appears in visual and multimodal search experiences.

Google is compensating roughly 100 publishers at approximately 0.1% of their advertising revenue through its AI contribution pilot.

Google confirmed Google Analytics experienced a loading outage and has restored access for some users, with full resolution expected soon.

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.

Google added a multimodal filter to Search Console that reveals which pages drive traffic from image-based searches.

Google Search desktop CTR declined while mobile CTR increased in Q2 2026, marking a shift in user click behavior across devices.

Google is rolling out a new multimodal search type filter in Search Console's performance report to help SEOs segment traffic by search modality.

GatherUp analyzed nearly 9,000 businesses to benchmark review volumes, NPS, and star ratings across healthcare, insurance, restaurant, legal, storage & transportation, and construction sectors for 2025.

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.

Search Engine Journal is hosting a webinar where STAT's Tom Capper will discuss how to measure AI Overviews and LLMs for enterprise SEO.