Thursday, September 24, 2026

Meta is designing cute characters and hardware around always-on AI recording to increase user adoption while addressing data privacy concerns.

Google is deploying its September 2026 spam update worldwide, with completion expected to take up to two weeks.

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

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

B2B brands are shifting to creator video content to build credibility in an AI-driven marketplace, with creator video use among B2B companies jumping 55% over the past year.

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.

SERoundtable reports significant volatility in Google Search rankings on September 23–24, suggesting a possible unconfirmed ranking update.

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

Google Business Profiles is testing an AI feature that automatically converts text descriptions of business hours into structured format for local search results.

Google Ads now ties budget recommendations to advertisers' conversion forecasts, urging them to spend more to reach projected performance goals.

Bing is testing a new sitelinks interface variant that displays link descriptions when users hover over individual sitelinks.

SERoundtable reports Google is testing a redesigned Local Service Ads format with larger images and highlight boxes to increase prominence in search results.

Google is experimenting with moving AI Overviews from the top of hotel search results to a bottom-right panel position.

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

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

Meta unveiled updates to its AI glasses, Muse headband, and VR devices at its annual Connect conference.

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