Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Breaks Usage Records, Social & Video Platforms Show In Search Console & More Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads & More
This week in search, we covered how Google’s Nick Fox announced Google Search broke all usage records when Argentina scored its winning goal in the World Cup. Google Search Console now shows third-party platform content performance data from Instagr…
Google Ads Now Show AI Creation/Edited Labels
Google Ads will now show if an ad was credited with AI or edited with AI across Search, YouTube and Discover. This AI notation will primarily show in the My Ad Center panel under “How this ad was made” but in some regions, based on the local law, Googl…
Google Automatically Assigns Product Categories With Evolving Taxonomy
Google Ads updated its About product category insights help document to say that it “automatically assigns your products to categories using a continuously evolving product taxonomy.” This was previously not documented on the Google Ads side but has be…
Hack: Google AI Performance Reports For Platform Properties
There is this hack (or trick) to force Google Search Console to show you the generative AI performance report for your social and video content, the new platform properties feature. All you need to do is add “/ai” after “search-analytics” or “discover”…
Google: Canonicalization Issues May Take Up To Two Weeks To Resolve
Google has updated the Fix canonicalization issues help documentation to add a new section to the top around how long it takes to fix those issues, if the pages are clustered together, and if the pages are different enough.
ChatGPT Ads New Overview Tab, Expands To Japan & South Korea
OpenAI has been busy adding and expanding its ad platform, ChatGPT Ads. OpenAI sent out an email yesterday announcing a new Overview tab and that it has expanded to Japan and South Korea.
New Google Reviews Bug: You Have No Reviews Yet
A new day and a new Google Business Profiles review bug. It seems a ton of business owners are seeing a message that reads “You have no reviews yet” when clicking on the option to read reviews of their Google Business Profile listing.
Racketeering Criminal Fraud Stella Huh Bribes Judges, False Witenesses and Cops
Have you ever got arrested because a sadistic & malevolent psychopath tied in with organized crime has stolen millions from your family, hacked your wife’s computers, was torturing your spouse, claimed to be your secret sidepiece whore lover, and w…
Google Ads Formats That Don’t Allow Alcohol Ads
Google Ads updated its alcohol policy to provide more examples of ad formats that don’t allow alcohol ads. The list previously only had reservation display ads and Google TV masthead ads, and it was updated app install image ads, app install video ads,…
Google Merchant Center Next Is Now Just Google Merchant Center
Google has removed “Next” from Google Merchant Center Next and it is now to be known as just Google Merchant Center. Google announced this over here saying, “The platform you use today will simply be referred to as Google Merchant Center.”
Google Search Generative AI Controls Rolling Out Beyond UK Sites
Google seems to be rolling out the new Generative AI controls in Google Search Console to sites outside the United Kingdom. It initially launched a month ago only for .co.uk based sites but now we are seeing it roll out for some (not all) sites based …
Google Ads Tests Favicons In Sponsored Results Sitelinks
Google is testing placing favicons in the sitelinks portion of the sponsored results from Google Ads. Generally, we only see the favicon in the main sponsored or organic listing, but here Google is testing showing favicons for all the links in the spo…
Google Ads Travel Search Campaigns Expands For Things To Do & Events Beta
Google announced it has expanded Search campaigns for Travel to an open beta for the Things to Do and Events verticals. This brings you Search and AI Max features for those types of campaigns.
Google Search Broke All Usage Records With Highest Usage Yesterday
Nick Fox, Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information at Google, said Google Search “broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history” after Argentina scored its winning goal in yesterday’s World Cup match.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 8, 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 is testing using tracking URLs within its search results…
Google Tests google.com/goto Tracking URLs In Search Results
For the past week or so, I have heard a few folks notice that Google is appending tracking URLs to the search results. So when you click on a search result, instead of the URL going directly to that site, Google is using a google.com/goto URL as a pas…
Google Ads Conversions Last Event Ping Timestamp
Google added a useful detail to the active conversions screen, to show you when was the last time Google Ads was able to trigger a ping event on your conversion feed and data. When you hover over the conversions, it will show you the date and time for…
Google Ads New AI Max FAQs
Google has posted some new frequently asked questions to the Google Ads AI Max help document. The questions cover what is AI Max, why you should use AI Max, that AI Max is not a new campaign type, how AI Max differs from PMax and what happens when you…
Google Search Product Results Contact Store For Price Label
Google Search normally shows product listings with pricing on them, but sometimes it can show “Contact store for price” when it Google does not know the price. I am not sure if I’ve seen this before, and it might not be new, but it did really stand out…
Google Business Profiles Appeals Adds Evidence Uploads In Workflow
Google has updated its Google Business Profile appeal process and flow to allow businesses to upload their evidence for the business profile suspension. The old flow had a different form where you would later upload that evidence, and you only had 60 m…