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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 7, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is testing an Ask AI Mode anything carousel feature. Bing is testing an updated Copilot product search box. Google Merchant Center allows you to use your own brand name in your short title. Google Discover was showing the publisher's name twice, it was a bug. Plus, I am offline today for Sukkos...
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Search has an ongoing serving issue since late Friday. There is also a bug with events not serving in Google Search. Google is testing the show more button on AI Overviews, it goes directly to Google AI Mode. The new Bing Places is now rolling out. Google is testing AI-generared search snippet descriptions again. Google revealed the dates for when call ads will be sunset. Microsoft will discontinue the Microsoft Advertising ads grant program. And I am offline Tuesday and Wednesday...
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 3, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google explained why the LCP numbers in Search Console is not wrong. Google is testing reviews labeled with "incentivized." Google is testing light gray titles links on hover. Google Merchant Center Next has rolled out its new menu bar. Microsoft is testing large impacts in Bing Copilot ads. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap...
Google Rolls Out Emoji Answer Search Box
In June, Google began testing showing a new answer box for emoji related queries. So when you search for a specific type of emoji, Google will give you the emoji options that you can copy directly from the search results page instead of going to a third-party publisher site. Well, that seems fully live as of today.
Google Ads Performance Max Gets Segmentation In Asset Reporting & More Channel Performance Reporting Features
Google Ads has announced several new features, including segmentation in asset reporting and enhancements to channel performance reporting. Google told me that this continues to provide advertisers with the visibility they are seeking.
Elizabeth Reid, Head Of Google Search, Interviewed On AI, Search, SEO & More
Here is a new interview published yesterday by The Economic Times Podcasts with Elizabeth Reid, VP of Google Search. She spoke about Google's progression of AI in Search, content quality, SEO, blue links, traffic, the ecosystem, agentic features and more.
October 2025 Google Webmaster Report: Spam Update, AI Mode, Num, Quality Raters & More
Google's spam update completed after almost a month rollout, it was pretty wild and got even more wild after the rollout completed. Google AI Mode rolled out to more languages, is more visual, is testing agentic experiences and much more. Google dropped the num parameter causing a huge mess for so many of us.
Daily Search Forum Recap: October 1, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google AI Mode now gets more visual with the new visual search fan out technique. Google's Liz Reid was interviewed again about the future of Google Search. Google AI Overviews tests a sticky citations box. Google Ads Performance Max gets new segmentation in the asset report, and new features for channel reporting. Google ADs has new message asset requirements. Google rolled out the emoji answer box. 😡 Finally...
Google AI Mode Gets More Visual
Google announced that AI Mode had been updated to handle and respond more visually. So AI Mode responses both understand your queries in a more visual way and respond with more visual responses. Google said the responses aim at sparking inspiration, amongst other things.
Google Testing Search Result Snippets With No Underline On Hover
Google is testing not underlining the search result snippets when you hover your mouse cursor over the snippet. Generally, Google will add an underline to the title of the link (sometimes the whole snippet) when you hover over it. But here, Google is testing not doing that.
Google AdSense Traffic Source Breakdown Report
Google added a new report to the Google AdSense reporting named traffic source breakdown. This report helps you understand the origins of your page traffic. It also categorizes traffic based on whether it arrived directly to your page, or from popular and classified platforms.
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 30, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Did the num 100 Google change impact Google Ads reporting and tools? ChatGPT now has instant checkout, would you let OpenAI purchase for you? Google is testing search result snippets without title underlines on hover. Google is testing a progress bar on the shopping ads carousel. Google AdSense has a new traffic source breakdown report...
Google Ads Reporting Also Impacted By Num=100 Change?
As a reminder, Google dropped its unofficial support of showing 100 search results per page, which caused issues for third party tracking tools and even Search Console itself. The theory with Search Console is that the scrapers were injecting artificial data into Google and thus the reporting. But is the same happening with Google Ads reporting?
Google Says Sometimes The Old Domain History Needs Time To Be Shaken Off
We covered the topic of taking over an old domain name from someone else and how that can sometimes be problematic in the Google SEO world. But here is a more recent comment from John Mueller of Google that is more encouraging on the topic.