Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google June Core Update Done, Local Ranking Update, AI Mode Updates & AI Calling Businesses
Google’s June 2025 core update finished on Thursday after running for 16 days. It was a volatile Google update for a while with some recoveries. Google AI Mode gets Gemini 2.5 Pro and Deep Search but you need to pay…
New Google Business Profile Check Edit Status
Google launched a new feature for Google Business Profiles that lets you check the status of your edits. So if you made a change and you want to see what the status of that change is for your Google local listing, now you can.
Google: Login Service Pages Are Hard To Rank In Search
Google’s John Mueller said it is hard for service oriented login web pages to rank in the search results. Like, if you have a landing page where people can login to their account and check on analytics, billing, etc, those types of login pages can be …
Google AI Overviews For Movie Queries
Google is supposedly showing AI Overviews for movie-related queries. Apparently, this is new, although I don’t have firsthand knowledge since I don’t typically search for movies. However, I’ve been told it’s new by a number of sources.
Google Ads Rolling Out Smart Bidding Exploration To Some Advertisers
Google Ads is rolling out its new Smart Bidding Exploration bidding update to some advertisers. At Google Marketing Live, Google called this its “biggest update to bidding in over a decade.”
Bing Tests Sitelinks With Light Gray Underlines
Microsoft is testing showing sitelinks with light gray underlines in the Bing search results. Normally, the Bing sitelinks don’t have any underline at all – but here Bing is testing this.
Google Analytics Real Time Reporting Broken Again
Google Analytics real-time reporting screens seem broken again. I am seeing a ton of complaints about GA4 real-time reporting not showing full data.
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2025
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 announced the June 2025 core update finished after just over 16 days…
Google AI Mode Gets Gemini 2.5 Pro & Deep Search For A Fee
Google is charging searchers to access the latest and best of its AI Mode and Deep Search. Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro for AI Mode and Deep Search for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.
Google Discover Officially Gets AI-Generated Summaries
Several weeks ago, we reported Google was testing AI-generated summaries for Google Discover. Well, according to TechCrunch, Google has confirmed as of this week, this is an official launch and is rolling out in the U.S.
How The Google Ask For Me Feature Works & New AI Local Calling
Earlier this year, Google released a new search labs feature named Ask For Me. Google would call local businesses to get the information you need and then send it to you, without you having to pick up a phone. Well, it is still in labs, still an expe…
Google Tests Much Larger Favicons In Search
Google is testing much larger favicons in the Google Search results on mobile. We’ve seen Google test variations to favicons and sitenames countless times and covered a lot of them here but this version has Google using a really large favicon and some…
Google Ads Tracks Call Assets QR Codes Or Send Email
For the past couple of years, we’ve seen Google show QR codes you can scan and email or text this number to call features in the Google Ads. Google’s Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, confirmed that these actions are indeed tracked by Google Ads, down to the …
Google June 2025 Core Update Finished Rolling Out
Google’s June 2025 core update is now done rolling out, it took 16 days and 18 hours to complete. The core update started on June 30, 2025 at around 10:34 am ET and ended on July 17, 2025 at around 4:18 am ET. Google posted saying, “The rollout was c…
So Now You’re Just Going To Bribe Me For Reviews?
It has begun. The Great Bribe Spam Tidal Wave Of 2025. I don’t know what else to call it. Companies desperate to be seen in AI Overviews are now (apparently – based on my limited experience) offering people … stuff … if theyR…
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 16, 2025
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 said barely indexed sites can mean Google isn’t convinced of the site overall…
Google: Barely Indexed Sites Can Mean Google Isn’t Convinced Of The Site Overall
Google’s John Mueller replied to a question around indexing issues on a site and said that if the site is hosted on a strong platform and is technically sound, and “it’s barely getting indexed, often that’s a sign that our systems aren’t convinced abou…
Google Ads Expandable Summary Row (Fed vs Asset Metrics)
Google Ads seems to be testing an expandable row in the channel performance report that shows you an overview of your feed-based vs asset-based metrics. You can click on a carrot icon to expand the row and expose the data summary.
Google Ads Change History Ghost Users – AdWords Administrator
Have you ever noticed ghost users in your Google Ads change history log? It just shows “AdWords Administrator” but doesn’t show which user, by name, made the change.
Google Core Web Vitals Update In Search Console – Bug or Normal?
Google seems to have updated its core web vitals metrics within Google Search Console a few days ago. The weird thing is that good URLs and URLs need improvements metrics all went down around that date but the poor URLs stayed the same.