Google Published Its Own Clock: How Long Search Actually Takes
Google showed its internal timings this week. A new page takes about 20 hours to find, a known page waits roughly 30…
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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 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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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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Friday Brief: Google’s Video Carousel Has Halved Since 12 August
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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Thursday Brief: Googlebot Found Just 2% of a Site’s JavaScript Links
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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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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Search and Social Update: 3 August 2026
Google switches local inventory ads on for every Shopping campaign from 31 August, and the Ads API will not let you switch…
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