Seen but Not Called: Search and Social Update, 2 September 2026
Calls from Google listings fell 11.9 percent and website clicks 12.5 percent, while direction requests rose 21.1 percent. Google also switched on…
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August 2026 in Review: What Actually Changed in Search and Social
In August a bot setting removed an entire government website from Google, and on 15 September that setting becomes the default for…
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The Show More Button Is Disappearing: Search and Social Update, 31 August 2026
Google has confirmed that AI Overviews now expand into full answers for some searches, removing the Show more button and pushing your…
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One Google Rule, Two Different Answers: Search and Social Update, 30 August 2026
From today Google stops applying its site reputation abuse penalty to anyone searching inside Europe, after pressure from the European Commission. Also…
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Your Week in Search and Social: 23 to 28 August 2026
Google confirmed it is routing search clicks through its own redirect links, bot protection knocked the IRS out of Google entirely, and…
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The IRS Vanished From Google This Week: Search and Social Update, 28 August 2026
The IRS dropped out of Google search this week because its own bot protection blocked Googlebot, and Cloudflare's new defaults on 15…
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Google Is Now Sending Your Clicks Through Its Own Links: Search and Social Update, 27 August 2026
Google is routing search clicks through its own redirect links at close to full rollout, which will make rank tracking harder and…
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Google Will Charge You for Missed Calls: Your 26 August Brief
From 1 October, Google Local Services Ads will charge you for calls nobody answered, and for the follow up call as well.…
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Tuesday Brief: That Search Console Security Email Was a Google Fault
Search Console emailed thousands of site owners on Monday claiming a new owner had been added, and it was a bug. Google…
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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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Sunday Brief: Google Has Stopped Fixing Your Broken Schema Code
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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Your Week in Search and Social: 16 to 21 August 2026
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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