Claude Sonnet 5.5 promises lower AI bills without a price cut
Anthropic says Claude Sonnet 5.5 is faster and more token-efficient. I tested it against Sonnet 5 on the same marketing task to see what changed.
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Google Maps Now Requires Sign In To Read All Reviews & More
Google Maps now requires you to sign in to a Google account to see all the reviews on a Google Business Profile listing. It is also required in order to sort the reviews, leave a review, and more. I assume this was done to help prevent AI, bots, and th…
Bing tests Recommended products heading in organic results
Bing is testing a ‘Recommended products’ heading above product grids in organic results, a labeling change that could help boost CTR.
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Google Paying ~100 Publishers 0.1% Of Ad Revenue In AI Contribution Pilot
As you know, Google has a small pilot named the AI contribution pilot, where they are paying some publishers for using their content in AI features like AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini. Well, according to The Information, it is about 100 publishers an…
Google Tests Sponsored Products Grid That Looks Like The Organic Product Grid
Google is testing making the sponsored products search results block or grid look more like the organic products/shopping grid. Instead of showing a long carousel of products across the top or on the right, this shows a product grid format we are more …
Bing Tests Product Features Labels On Product Listings
Microsoft Bing is testing adding product feature labels to product listings in the search results. This can add labels like “great for…,” “effective,” “performs well,” “lightweight”, and so on.
Bing Sponsored Ads With One-Line Consumer Review Extension
Microsoft Advertising now shows “consumer review” ad extensions in the Bing search results sponsored results section. These are one-line snippets of text, added under the sponsored result, that come a “from consumer review.”
Google Merchant Center adds new mileage_allowance sub-attribute for German vehicle listings
Google Merchant Center now supports a ‘mileage_allowance’ sub-attribute for German vehicle listings, letting merchants specify lease or financing mileage limits directly in their feed.
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Google AI Mode now showing more blog carousels
Google AI Mode is showing more blog carousels than before, giving websites that publish articles regularly another way to earn visibility inside AI Mode answers.
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Google tests AI price-check buttons in Local Results Pack
Google is testing ‘Have AI get prices’ and ‘Have AI check prices’ buttons within its Local Results Pack, spotted separately on desktop and mobile.
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Google Working To Restore Google Analytics
Google has confirmed there are issues with Google Analytics loading the platform. Google updated its status report to say that it has “restored for some users” and Google expects “a resolution for all users in the near future.”
Google unveils a faster way to power query fan-out
Its R4T framework generates multiple retrieval directions together, with researchers reporting a 12-to-20-fold speed improvement in tests.
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OpenAI launches dots, AI agents that keep working after you log off
The agents get their own cloud computers, but Pro subscribers in the UK, EEA and Switzerland are excluded from the initial rollout.
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Google uses AI to hunt video spam through upload times and device clues
The system examines how channels upload and connect to one another, looking for coordinated abuse even when their videos differ.
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Google AdSense moves ID checks ahead of your first penny
Google’s $0 identity-check threshold applies depending on location. Address verification still starts at $10 or its local equivalent.
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Claude recovers from outage, but some messages may be missing
Anthropic says the September 29 disruption affected Claude’s chat service, coding tools and API.
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Google may publish suggested business edits if you miss its deadline
Some suggestions can go live if owners miss the notification. A weekly profile check could leave businesses too late to respond.
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UK wants Google to offer you other search engines
The CMA’s revised proposal would let qualifying AI services compete for default searches, with clear credit for publishers among the conditions.
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Spam in Google Analytics? Here’s what its new filter can block
GA4’s hostname allowlist gives site owners another way to filter unwanted events. Its usefulness against suspicious Singapore traffic depends on what those events contain.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Google’s Nick Fox was interviewed again and said the DMA changes make him sad and are terrible for search…