Daily Search Forum Recap: June 22, 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.
We saw some significant Google search ranking volatility heat this weekend…
Google: Site Move Outcomes Impossible To Fully Know Ahead Of Time
Google’s John Mueller warned a site owner from moving his domain name from a .ca to .com just for branding purposes.
Google Ads Provides More Tips On Pin Headlines & Descriptions
Google Ads updated its responsive search ads help document to expand on the tips section around pinning headlines and descriptions. It now warns against pinning identical or very similar text and suggests a hybrid strategy.
Google Ads Rolling Out Text Disclaimers To All
Last month, Google announced that it is rolling out text disclaimers within Google Ads globally, in all languages. Well, it seems to have rolled out for many last week, as many are seeing it in their Google Ads accounts.
Google Ads Smart Bidding Strategies Target CPA & Target ROAS Updates
Google Ads is updating how bidding strategies are labeled. Specifically, Target CPA and Target ROAS will show as standalone bidding strategy options, separating them from the “Maximize conversions” and ‘Maximize conversion value’ strategies.
Google Business Profiles New Collected Info Actions
Google is adding a new feature to the Google Business Profiles actions named Collected Info. This is to confirm your business details and keep your Business Profile updated, Google wrote.
Google Search Ranking Update Hits Friday June 19th Impacting Black Hats?
Google may have quietly rolled out an update on Friday, June 19th, that seems to may have impacted more of the black hat SEO side of things. It is not 100% clear because most of the tools seem pretty stable and yes there is chatter also in the more “wh…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19, 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 spoke on stage about chunking, AI content, quality content, subscriptions, paywalls, site wide sig…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Volatility, Bing AI Reporting Updates, UK Orders Google To Hand Over Its Search Ranking Algorithm & More
This week, we covered the typical and ongoing Google Search ranking volatility. UK’s CMA ordered Google to share its search ranking algorithm and enable data portability to some third-parties. Google Search rolled out its information…
Bing Tests Updated News Design In Search
Microsoft Bing is testing a new updated design for the news section within Bing Search. The updated news box, honestly, is easier to understand and makes it clearer that these are news sources – so I kind of like it.
Google Speaks On Chunking, Site Signals, Content, Paywalls & AI Clicks
Google held a Search Central Live event in Milan this week and spoke about several topics including chunking, site-wide signals, AI settings in Search Console, commondity versus non-commodity content, paywalled content, subscriptions for news sites, wh…
Bing Tests Color Options In Product Results
Microsoft Bing is testing a color selector / viewer in the shopping and product results within Bing Search. This will show you what colors the product is available in, without having to click over to the website to see it.
Google Ads Turning On Conversion-Based Customer Lists For Advertisers
Google will be turning on conversion-based customer lists for Google Ads advertiser accounts beginning on Jun 17, 2026, with data processing to begin on August 18, 2026. This will happen to all advertisers who have already adopted both Enhanced Conver…
Google Maps: Hot Pink Live Time Alerts
Google is testing using a hot pink font for the live time for when a place is busy or not. This is part of the old popular times feature, but Google is testing or launching a hot pink font to make it really noticeable.
Teaching a Model to Reason Before It Learns to Talk
A weekend project that turned into a bet against the whole transformer playbook. The short version Almost every AI you’ve heard of is a transformer trained on a firehose of text. It learns language first, and reasoning sort of comes along for the ride. I’m trying the opposite: a tiny model that learns logic and […]
Bing Webmaster Tools May Support More Country Reporting
Bing may soon support more countries for the countries filter within Bing Webmaster Tools. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft wrote on X, “Well, we are now actively considering expanding this to show more individual countries.”
Google Business Profiles Dashboard Activities Button
Google can show an “Activities” button in the Google Business Profiles dashboard within Google Search. I assume this button is reserved for venues that let you book activities including booking tickets or other activities.
How Search Grounding Biased an LLM Against YouTube
I asked Claude to recommend a webinar platform. The web’s affiliate-driven content quietly steered it away from the obvious free answer. Here is what happened, and what it says about how language models talk about products. The setup I gave Claude a simple, practical request: find me a platform where I can quickly hop on […]
Google Tests 3D Model From Attribution In Product Results
Google is testing attributing where the 3D models are from that Google shows within the product detail screen in Google Search. I can’t replicate this but the test shows “3D mode from [retailer name].”
Google Discover Feed With More Google News Showcase Results
Google seems to be showing content from publishers in the Google News Showcase more within the Google Discover feed. I don’t have direct data to prove this but two people who follow Google Discover closely said this is to be true.