Google Discover experiencing loading issues and outages across users

Meta pushed back the effective date of its website-crawling policy terms by three weeks to November 20 following publisher pushback.

SERoundtable recaps the week's search industry updates including Google's PHP exploit guidance, continued ranking volatility, and platform announcements.

Google is rolling out information agents and a Universal Cart feature that expand how products and information are discovered and purchased directly within Search.

Ahrefs reports that Google serves abnormal or outdated pages to SEO data tools at rates between 5% and 20%, depending on the provider.