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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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Google Ads Starts Locking Gmail Accounts Out of Their Own Settings

Google has begun piloting a rule that stops free email addresses like Gmail from making sensitive changes to a Google Ads account.…

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Search and Social Update: 2 August 2026

Google starts retiring Dynamic Search Ads in September, migrating eligible campaigns to AI Max automatically. Google Business Profile chat has shut down…