Google Is Writing Your Business Listing Now: Search and Social Update, 18 September 2026
Google has started putting an AI Overview label on top of local business listings, with a generated description nobody at your company…
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Google has started putting an AI Overview label on top of local business listings, with a generated description nobody at your company…
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South African online retail hit R159 billion this year, yet the share of adults who shop online fell to 34.2 percent. OpenAI…
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Google has begun paying some publishers when their pages shape an AI answer, through an invitation only pilot inside Search Console with…
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AI now touches nine in ten blog posts, yet content results have fallen to a twelve year low and the survey says…
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One account uploaded more than 150 photos to unrelated Google Maps listings, every one carrying the same phone number. Plus 131 specialists…
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Ninety seven percent of the answers inside Google's People Also Ask boxes are now AI Overviews, up from 12 percent fourteen months…
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New survey data shows 57.5 percent of AI users have been talked out of a purchase by a chatbot, and nearly nine…
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Google Shopping ads are showing less often but converting better, and new data across 175 billion impressions explains why. Plus a warning…
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Google has quietly made exact and phrase match keywords eligible to serve inside AI Mode, reversing a rule that kept tight keyword…
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Google Ads started migrating search campaigns to AI Max on its own, Meta pulled placement exclusions out of ad sets, and new…
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Google put Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode this week and the citations disappeared, which Google has now confirmed is a bug.…
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Google Analytics standard reports have shown zero traffic since 1 September, and Google has acknowledged the fault sits in its own reporting…
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