Google Search Advocate John Mueller said the traditional "position 1 - 10" ranking is "hard to map" for site owners as search results pages add AI Overviews, featured snippets and other features, and …
Google is now answering nearly 100% of all 'People Also Ask' questions with AI Overviews, up from about 12% 14 months ago, according to Search Engine Roundtable. The company also introduced new AI-rel…
Google announced on August 31 that its Search Console AI reports and the Search AI opt-out control are now available worldwide, providing impressions data from AI Overviews, AI Mode, and generative AI…
Google has globally released the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports and Search generative AI controls, following a rollout that began in early June. Google's John Mueller confirme…
A new analysis by Ahrefs of 137,210 domains in June 2026 found that 28% published an llms.txt file, yet 97% of those files received zero traffic in May, prompting the author to argue for serving markd…
Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit discussion that on his test sites, the only crawlers claiming to accept markdown files are SEO tools, casting doubt on the value of serving markdown to AI bots. …
A federal judge questioned Google's AI Overviews content arrangement during a hearing in Penske Media's antitrust case, with Judge Amit Mehta describing the situation as 'really unfair' and noting pub…
Google announced it will not enforce manual actions under its site reputation abuse policy in the European Economic Area (EEA) starting August 30, 2026, due to a mandate from the European Commission, …
Google Search ranking volatility continued this week following its spam update, and Google confirmed it is rolling out google.com/goto tracking parameters to replace direct links in search results to …
Google Ads is testing loading sponsored results in mobile search with an animation that references Gemini, showing 'Evaluating sponsored results' with Google and Gemini logos. Separately, Google annou…
Google's John Mueller said there is nothing special businesses need to do for generative AI responses in search, as Google's AI results derive directly from its regular search index. Responding to a q…
Google began rolling out the August 2026 spam update on August 18, its third spam update this year, and the rollout may take a few days. Separately, Google expanded generative UI from AI Mode into AI …
Google's John Mueller explained that spam updates are necessary because search spam evolves and existing algorithms cannot catch all new spam patterns, so Google periodically releases updates to addre…
A 2026 SE Ranking study of 300,000 domains found a 10.13% adoption rate for the proposed llms.txt standard, yet only one of the fifty most AI-cited domains had the file, and Google has confirmed it do…
Google confirmed a logging error undercounts impressions in Search Console's Generative AI performance report for data starting August 13, 2026, still affected as of the August 17 report, and a relate…
Google introduced Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console on 3 June 2026, but the queries behind AI Mode and AI Overviews are not exposed via the API or BigQuery export, as verified…
Google Search Console's performance report is recording AI Mode conversation fragments as queries, with SEO Anastasia Kourou first noticing unusual entries like 'Yes go on' in early August and Google'…
Google's Search Console is recording AI Mode conversation fragments as queries, with SEO Anastasia Kourou first noticing odd terms like "yes go on" in August and Google's John Mueller confirming the m…
A Redditor in the r/SEO community reports that enabling Cloudflare's AI Training block causes Googlebot and Bingbot to receive HTTP 403 errors when fetching sitemaps, despite Cloudflare's official ann…
Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rebuilding the Google Images homepage, both timed to the service's 25th anniversary. Google Search Advocate John Mueller responded to a plan to…