Google Search Profiles Spotted Adding LinkedIn

Google Search Profiles officially supports YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and X, plus you can also add Facebook and your website. But now some are seeing Google add LinkedIn as well.

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Google Ads Gains A New Telemedicine Certification Option

Google Ads announced that in addition to the original telemedicine certification options, Google is adding a new one from the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)'s Healthcare Merchant Accreditation Program. This goes into effect this month, November 2026.

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Google Ads Explains Difference With Search Terms Match Type (Keywords)

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, explained why the Google Ads interface has two different metrics named search terms match type. One is named "Search terms match type" and the other is named "Search terms match type (Keywords)."

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Google Emails: Site Reputation Policy Manual Actions No Longer Impact EEA

Google just sent out emails to some sites that have site reputation abuse policy manual actions that those manual actions won't impact the search results within the EEA, European Economic Area. This actually took effect on August 30, 2026, but now, two months later, Google is notifying site owners via Google Search Console.

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Is At 20% Of Google Search Volume

OpenAI's Adam Fry said "ChatGPT's volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the volume of queries of Google," in an interview with Alex Kantrowitz. "ChatGPT has gone from one billion to 1.2 in just the last two months," he added.

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List Of Google Twiddlers For Re-Ranking Search Results

Twiddlers are adjustable rules or systems that Google uses to fine-tune search results. They can re-rank the search results. Twiddlers can boost, demote, or otherwise rework search results based on specific, dynamic criteria, signals, or business rules such as NavBoost, user engagement, freshness, or manual/algorithmic filters.

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Google Updates Crawled - Currently Not Indexed Details

Google has updated the page indexing report help documentation, specifically the "Crawled - currently not indexed" section. It now says Google doesn't index all pages, this is a common message, it doesn't necessarily indicate an issue and more.

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Google Ads Asset Scheduling With Day Grouping (Weekends/Weekdays)

Google Ads improved the asset scheduling advanced options to let you group days, such as weekends versus weekdays and more. This can be found under the advanced options within asset scheduling in Google Ads.

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Google On How To Block Popups Using Robot.txt In Search

Google's John Mueller explained how to prevent pop-up dialogs on your website from appearing in Google Search using the robots.txt file. He mentioned how to do this if you are using JavaScript for the pop-up.

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Google AI Overviews For Brands Moved To Right Column

Google has moved the AI Overviews for many brand-related keywords to the right-hand column of the search results page. Previously, they appeared at the top or middle of the main search results section.

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Google Ads Promotion Offers Within Promotions

Google has added a new "Promotions offers" section within the Promotions section in Google Ads. This lets you quickly filter your promotions by these three statuses, offered, expired and invalidated.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 30, 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. Ads in Google AI Mode make Google less per search, but Google has more searches. Google's John Mueller said AI spam tactics will be caught...

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Google Gemini Stopped Attaching UTM Parameters To Cited URLs

Google seems to have stopped appending UTM parameters on Gemini links, the cited URLs in Gemini's AI responses. Google started adding UTM parameters to links in Gemini in early September, but then, around September 28th, Google stopped.

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Google Search May Be Bringing Back 100 Search Results Parameter

Google Search may be bringing back the ability to see 100 search results per page by bringing back the num=100 parameter. As a reminder, Google dropped this feature in September 2025 as one of many methods to prevent crawlers from scraping its search results. As you know, third-party tracking tools are not working so well these days.

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Google's John Mueller: Eventually Systems Will Catch The AI Spam & Tricks

Google's John Mueller was interviewed by David Iwanow, where he shared information on AI-generated content, the future of SEO, technical SEO, the crawl stats report, redirect chains, ecommerce product data and much more. John was asked about tactics, such as listicles, being used to rank well in AI Search, and he said that eventually the systems will catch up, so don't use those cheap, easy, and fast tactics.

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Bing Ads Revenue Up 12% With Overall Revenue Up 19%

Microsoft reported its first quarter 2027 earnings, showing that its search and advertising revenue was up 12%, indicating its ad growth was 2 points higher than the previous quarter. The previous quarter it was up 10%, before that was up 12%, before that up 10% before that, up 16% and the one before that was 21% and this quarter, it is only up 10%.

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You Can Now Build Apps For Google Search: Connected Apps Platform

Google announced today that you and your developers can now build apps for Google Search and Gemini. Google wrote, "today we're launching the preview of our Connected Apps Platform, a unified way for more app developers to bring their capabilities directly into Gemini and Search."

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Google Image Search Tests Save Button On Image Overlay

Google is testing a new position for the Save button within Google Image Search. When you hover your mouse cursor over an image, you may see a "Save" button show up that you can click on. The previous method was to show the Save button when you click on an image and the image preview shows up in a window.

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Google Business Profiles Asking Businesses For EIN

Google is asking some businesses to provide their EIN, Employer Identification Number and a link to their privacy policy when updating parts of their Google Business Profile.

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Googlebot Must Follow Redirects From Homepage To Favicon, Updated Doc Say

Google Search has just updated its favicon documentation to now specify that Googlebot must be able to follow redirects from the homepage to the page where the favicon is specified. The document also explicitly says that these URLs must not be blocked by robots.txt or other means.

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Google Ads Tests Dotted Underlined Links In Sponsored Results

Google is testing placing dotted underlined links in the sponsored results ad descriptions. When you click on them, you go to the ad destination's URL, like you would if you clicked on the title of the ad.

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Google Ads To Update Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE) Policy

Google Ads said it will update its Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (CSAE) ads policy this coming January. Google said this is being done as part of a "redesign of the policy, and to improve protections, clarity and transparency."

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Google Warns Tools On User-Generated Spam Guidance & More

Google has updated its Prevent user-generated spam on your site and platform help document to specify "tools that let users publish shared pages, generated content, or web apps." The update explicitly includes platforms and tools that let users create shared pages, generated content, and web apps.

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ChatGPT Ads With Learn More Arrow Link; Some Served Through Amazon DSP

OpenAI seems to be rolling out a new ad format for some ChatGPT Ad units that have a Learn more link, that is dotted and underlined, and also with an arrow going upwards. And in some cases, ChatGPT Ads seem to be served with Amazon DSP.

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Google Ads 1-Click AI Max Experiment Recommendation

Google Ads updated its frequently asked questions page for AI Max search campaigns with a section on 1-click AI Max experiments. Google wrote in the document, "If your account is eligible, you may find a 1-click experiment recommendation on your Recommendations page."

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