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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Tag: Zero-Click Search
Search and Social Update: 1 August 2026
Google Search Console platform properties are now available to everyone, so you can finally see which searches surface your Instagram, TikTok and…
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Search and social update: 30 July 2026
Google Search Console can now report on your Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube posts, and it arrives just as zero-click searches hit…
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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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Google’s AI Search Shake-Up and Threads Ads: Your 26 July 2026 Briefing
Zero-click searches hit 68% and Google responds with big changes to AI Overviews, while Threads ads go global within days. Here is…
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Google Moves the News Into AI Overviews and Hands You the Data to Track It
Google has switched on news carousels inside AI Overviews, Search Console is rolling out AI visibility reports, and Instagram now lets users…
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