Your Exact Match Keywords Can Now Show Inside Google AI Mode
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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Your Week in Search and Social: 30 August to 4 September 2026
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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The Citations Vanished: Your Search and Social Brief for 4 September 2026
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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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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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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Search and Social Update: 9 August 2026
The word yes is showing up as a query in Search Console, and it is coming from AI Mode follow-ups. Google is…
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Google can now strip the stars off your search listing: search and social update, 28 July 2026
Google has banned fake and undisclosed incentivised reviews from review snippets, with manual actions for sites that ignore it. Plus the zero-click…
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