Google announces Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 in Barcelona, Sept. 30–Oct. 2

Google is notifying sites with site reputation abuse manual actions that those actions will no longer affect search results in the European Economic Area, a change that took effect August 30, 2026.

Reddit is testing logged-in-only access, which raises questions about search and AI visibility for brands that rely on Reddit conversations.

Google says schools can switch Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Search on one at a time, while Search keeps AI Mode and AI Overviews, with changes arriving in early 2027.

Google has updated the Page indexing report help documentation for the 'Crawled - currently not indexed' status, now stating that Google doesn't index all pages, that this is a common message, and that it doesn't necessarily indicate an issue.