Search Engine Roundtable

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Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated Yep, more of the same - the Google Search ranking volatility remains heated. Many are asking when we will see an officially announced Google core update. But it has not been announced yet.

Google Search ranking volatility heated as always www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...

Robby Stein Of Google On Teaching AI To Link Out & More Robby Stein, VP, Product at Google Search, was interviewed by Zain Kah on Google AI Search features. While most of the conversation are items we already know, he did say a few interesting things that...

Google's Robby Stein on teaching Google AI Search on how to link out www.seroundtable.com/robby-stein-...

Google Discover Testing Large Publisher Header Images Google is testing a larger header image for the Google Discover publisher header images. It looks a lot more magazine-type and style.

Google Discover tests larger publisher profile header images www.seroundtable.com/google-disco...

Google AI Voice Models Coming To Google Ads Performance Max Videos Google Ads is rolling out Google AI voice models as a new asset optimization feature for your video ads. This is for your existing Performance Max video ads.

Google AI voice for PMax video campaigns in Google Ads www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-vo...

Google Search Console Crawl Stats Date Toggle/Selector Broken Google seems to have a bug with the Crawl Stats report in Google Search Console. The date selector appears to be acting a bit weird, where it doesn't let you select the before or after date.

Google Search Console crawl stats date selector toggle doesn't work right www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...

Google Search Bars Chocolate Check out this Google Search Bar, not the one you type your query into, but the one you eat. This is a Tony's milk chocolate bar with the Google logo and Search Bar name on the wrapper.

Google Search Bar www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...

Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger interviewed Google's head of Search, Liz Reid, on Google's progression of AI into Search. It felt like a very candid interview that is worth listening to. In short, Liz...

Google's Liz Reid on the progression of AI in Google Search www.seroundtable.com/liz-reid-goo...

Google Discover Follow Widget Card Google is testing a new widget for the Google Discover feed where you can follow news publishers and/or topics. It is called the "home follow widget."

Google Discover follow widget home card www.seroundtable.com/google-disco...

Google Adds Trending Posts & Discussions To What People Are Saying Google added "Trending posts & discussions" title under What People Are Saying section within Google Search results. It also has those favicons at the top, which I don't think is new but it is all par...

Google Search adds "Trending posts & discussions" title under What People Are Saying section www.seroundtable.com/google-trend...

Google Search Console BigQuery Exports Broken There are a number of complaints that the Google Search Console bulk data export to BigQuery is not working. The issue seemed to have started several days ago and is still not working today.

Google Search Console bulk export to BigQuery broken www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...

Google Ads Notices For European Union Political Ads Google has sent notices to some advertisers asking them to confirm whether their campaigns contain European Union political content. The deadline to confirm is by March 31, 2026.

Google Ads notices for European Union political content www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-n...

Google AI Cricket Coach At one of the Google offices the team set up an AI-based cricket coach. The signage says "AI Cricket Coach" and you can see a computer system analyzing the swing of the bat.

AI cricket coach at Google www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...

Google Heat Continues, AI Mode Recipe Link Card, ChatGPT Search With Less Links & AI-Generated Pages YouTube video by RustyBrick Barry Schwartz Search Engine Roundtable

SEO Video recap: Google volatility, AI Mode recipe links and cards, ChatGPT search with fewer links and AI-generated search landing pages to take over www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTXf...

Google Says Most Sites Don't Need To Disavow Links But That's Not All Sites Google's John Mueller again spoke about the disavow link file. This time he said that while "most sites don't need it, he added but "that's not all sites." Some sites may indeed need to disavow links.

Google says most sites don't need to disavow links but that is not all sites www.seroundtable.com/google-disav...

Microsoft Bing Tests Go To Shopping Button In Search Microsoft is testing a "Go to Shopping" button within the Bing Search results. This is instead of the narrower shopping section that shows shopping results by just says "see all."

Bing Search tests "Go to Shopping" button www.seroundtable.com/bing-go-to-s...

Microsoft Bing With Asian Owned Labels On Ads A few years ago, Microsoft Advertising the support of Asian owned labels and attributes on its search ads within Bing. Google has a similar attribute, by the way. Honestly, I've never seen the label...

Bing ads Asian-owned label www.seroundtable.com/bing-asian-o...

Google Local Service Ads Won't Credit Calls For Existing Clients Google Local Service Ads can be super expensive; each call or click can cost hundreds of dollars. Which is why Google has generally been good about refunding for mistaken leads or issues with those l...

Google Local Service Ads won't credit call fee for a non lead www.seroundtable.com/google-local...

Google Ads Customer Match Data Uploads Changes Coming Google sent out emails to some advertisers about changes coming to the Customer Match uploads in the Google Ads APl. After April 1, 2026, those data uploads are no longer going to work in the Google A...

Google Ads customer match data uploads changing April 1st - it won't work in the normal Google Ads API www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-c...

Google Zurich Food Station I was at the Google Zurich office back in December and snapped a photo of this little cafe. It looked like a food ticket station of sorts. I may have grabbed a banana, maybe.

Google Zurich ticket station www.seroundtable.com/photos/googl...

Google Says Loading Content With JavaScript Does Not Make It Harder For Google Search Google has removed a whole section from its JavaScript SEO documentation because it was outdated and Google says loading content with JavaScript does not make it hard for Google Search.

Google removed the accessibility section from its JavaScript SEO doc www.seroundtable.com/google-javas...

Google Testing AI Mode Recipe Widget That Sucks Searchers Into AI Frankenstein Recipes Google is testing a new AI Mode widget within the main search results that drives searchers away from the core search results and recipe listings/cards and into AI Mode, which then shows those horribl...

Google AI Mode recipe widget sucks searchers into AI-Frankenstein recipes www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo...

Google AI Overviews With Expandable Drop Downs Google seems to be rolling out a new format for some of the AI Overviews it shows within search. This format shows a drop-down, expandable, accordion-style interface that you can expand to show more.

Google AI Overviews with drop down menus www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ov...

Google AI Mode Adds More Links To Recipe Blogs Google announced it updated AI Mode to link to more recipe sites and bloggers. "Starting today, when you search for meal ideas like “easy dinners for two,” you can tap on the dish to see links to rele...

Google AI Mode improves links to recipe sites www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo...

Google Merchant Center Adds Build to Order Attribute For Vehicle Listings Google has added a new attribute to the Google Merchant Center availability options within vehicle listings. The new one is named "Build to order" and only works for Google Vehicle ads.

Google Merchant Center adds "Build to order" attribute www.seroundtable.com/google-merch...

Sound Immersion At Google Google had some "Sound Immersion" event at the Google visitor center at the GooglePlex in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the bowls and equipment that was there.

Google Sounds immersion www.seroundtable.com/photos/sound...

ChatGPT-5.3 Instant To Show Fewer Links In Web Search Results? OpenAI announced GPT-5.3 Instant and said it "delivers more accurate answers, richer and better-contextualized results when searching the web, and reduces unnecessary dead ends, caveats, and overly de...

ChatGPT Search GPT5.3 Instant may show even fewer links :( www.seroundtable.com/gpt-5-3-inst...

Google Testing Bolding Site Names In Search Results Google is testing bolding the site names in the search results. We've seen Google bold many other elements of the search result snippet, but I don't think I've covered Google testing bolding the site ...

Google Search tests bolding site names www.seroundtable.com/google-bold-...

New Google Help Document On How Google Crawling Works Google has posted a new help document named Things to know about Google's web crawling. This document currently lists 9 things on how Google's web crawling works.

How Google's web crawlers work - new help document from Google www.seroundtable.com/how-google-c...

Google Search With Wider Images For Some Travel Queries Google Search may have rolled out an update for the images it shows in the search results All tab. For some queries, Google is showing a full-width image pack, but with only four wider images, not the...

Google Search with wider images www.seroundtable.com/google-searc...