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Six Days of Rank Drops That Never Happened: Search and Social Update, 12 October 2026

For nearly six days Google fed rank tracking tools short result pages, and an average of eight of the top ten sites…

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Nine Thousand Fake Articles and One New Rule: Search and Social Update, 11 October 2026

A network of about seventy fake local news sites published 8 913 AI written articles, and Anthropic has now banned the tactic…

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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: 5 August 2026

From 2 August, AI generated content shown to European audiences has to carry a label, with fines up to fifteen million euros.…

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Search and Social Update: 4 August 2026

Google has started asking some searchers to sign in and prove they are human before showing more results. Rankings moved on the…

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