ChatGPT now qualifies as a very large online search engine under the EU Digital Services Act

Google has finished rolling out AI performance reports to all Search Console users worldwide, enabling tracking of AI Overview and AI Mode impressions.

Google has published details on its mandatory European search data licensing program, a requirement under DMA gatekeeper designation.

Google is expanding AI Overviews to cover more queries, pushing organic search results further down the page.

Google's August 2026 spam update, completed in just over two days, hit sites scaling programmatic and AI-generated content, thin affiliates, and sites with scaled content abuse.