Monday Brief: Google Quietly Repaired Two of Its Own Faults Over the Weekend
Google confirmed on Sunday that the search favicon bug is fully fixed, and repaired the Search Console crawl stats gap over the…
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Google confirmed on Sunday that the search favicon bug is fully fixed, and repaired the Search Console crawl stats gap over the…
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Google has stopped tidying up badly escaped structured data, so rich results can disappear without a single warning. Reddit lost 86% of…
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A 41 day experiment found Googlebot reaching only 2 percent of pages linked by JavaScript, and the AI crawlers found almost none.…
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A NADA Show 2026 session argues that if your salespeople are bad at social media, that is management’s failure and not theirs.…
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Google's video carousel now shows on under 20% of searches, down from just over 30%, and on tracked brand names it fell…
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A 41 day experiment split one site's internal links between plain HTML and JavaScript. Googlebot found 2% of the JavaScript pages and…
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A NADA Show 2026 session that flatly contradicts the AI marketing advice everyone else is giving: most of what is sold as…
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Google started the August 2026 spam update on Monday and it is still rolling out worldwide. WordPress 7.1 ships today, Instagram will…
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Your Search Console AI impressions collapsed on 13 August and Google has confirmed none of it was real. Plus a paused AI…
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Google's Smart Bidding change went live today, so a target you set as a ceiling is now an instruction. ChatGPT Ads started…
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Google Ads removes campaign level language targeting in late September, which matters more in a multilingual market than almost anywhere else. AI…
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Three changes this week were not features you can adopt when ready. Google Ads starts migrating campaigns to AI Max on 1…
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