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

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

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

Google Maps now requires users to sign in with a Google account to view all reviews, sort results, and leave feedback on business listings.

Google updated its video structured data schema to add support for the creator property and clarified which interaction types are supported in VideoObject.

Google announced R4T-Diffusion, a new query fan-out framework designed for production-scale search systems.

Google is experimenting with a two-row button layout for local search panel actions on mobile devices.

Google removed Web Search Service API documentation it had accidentally published, though the API itself remains unavailable to most users.

Google has removed the Follow button from desktop search results while keeping it on mobile.