Google Ads Auto-Apply Recommendations Setting Updated

Google has updated its Auto-Apply Recommendations setting within the Google Ads interface. The button moved to just above the regular recommendations section.

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Microsoft Ads Posts On How To Optimize For AI Search Answers

The Microsoft Advertising blog posted about how to optimize for AI Search Answers. I thought it was weird to see this on the Microsoft Advertising blog and not on the Bing Search blog, because (a) it is an ad blog and (b) it was written by Krishna Madhavan, who is part of the Bing team, not ad team.

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Google Adds Google NotebookLM To User-Triggered Fetchers

Google added Google NotebookLM to the list of Google crawlers, under the list of user-triggered fetchers. Google said they added this user-agent "based on feedback."

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Google Tests More Publisher Friendly Recipe AI Overviews

Google is testing a new, more publisher-friendly version of the AI Overviews for recipe results. The new design has the recipe cards at the top, citations at the bottom and a shorter AI response.

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Google AI Mode Links In Italics (Test)

Google is testing using the italic font type for the links in AI Mode. So the links have a bit of a slant to them, compared to the other text in the AI Mode response.

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Google Ask AI Mode Anything Explore Carousel

Google Search is testing a new carousel to promote AI Mode named "Ask AI Mode anything." It gives you ideas on how to "Explore" new or related topics in AI Mode.

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Google Merchant Center Lets You Use Your Own Brand In Short Title

Google updated the wording in the title documentation for Merchant Center, now suggesting you can use your own brand or company name in the short title of your products. That is, if you manufacture your own products.

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Google Reveals Dates For Call Ads Going Away

A year ago, we learned that Google would transition from Google call ads, call-only ads, to using call assets within responsive search ads (RSAs) but we didn't know the dates. Now, Google said this will happen in two phases: February 2026 and February 2027.

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Google Confirms Google Search Serving Issue

Google has confirmed a Google Search serving issue that is currently ongoing and impacting serving "some pages in some locales." This is a large enough issue that Google posted about it on its Google Search Status Dashboard.

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Google Merchant Center Next New Compact Menu Bar

Google has rolled out the new, more compact, menu bar for Google Merchant Center Next. This was part of a slew of user interface updates that Google has been slowly rolling out for Merchant Center Next over the past several months.

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Microsoft Tests Large Images In Bing Search Copilot Ads

Microsoft is testing using really large images in the Bing Search Copilot ads. I don't believe I've seen such large ads in this ad unit before, so it seems new to me.

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Google's Elizabeth Reid id Interviewed On AI, Search, Blue Links, SEO & More

Here is a new interview published yesterday by The Economic Times Podcasts with Elizabeth Reid, VP of Google Search. She spoke about Google's progression of AI in Search, content quality, SEO, blue links, traffic, the ecosystem, agentic features and more.

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Google Search Rolls Out Emoji Answer Box

In June, Google began testing showing a new answer box for emoji related queries. So when you search for a specific type of emoji, Google will give you the emoji options that you can copy directly from the search results page instead of going to a third-party publisher site. Well, that seems fully live as of today.

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New Google AdSense Traffic Source Breakdown Report

Google added a new report to the Google AdSense reporting named traffic source breakdown. This report helps you understand the origins of your page traffic. It also categorizes traffic based on whether it arrived directly to your page, or from popular and classified platforms.

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Google To Remove More Lodging Listings With Inaccurate Prices

Google said it will be strict in enforcing accurate pricing for lodging listings on Google, both for ads and free booking links. There is no policy change but they will have a "higher standards for price accuracy."

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Google AI Mode Agentic Features Go Live For Some

A month ago, Google announced new agentic (agent based) features for AI Mode. Well, some are now seeing this live in AI Mode, specifically making reservations at recommended restaurants.

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Google AdSense Dropping Session-Related Metrics

Google is sunsetting the session-related metrics for Google AdSense. Google said this includes all metrics that rely on ad sessions, such as "Ad sessions", "Ad session RPM", etc.

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Google To Label Some Search Ads With "Not A Government Website"

Google updated its Other restricted businesses: Government documents and services policy to say it may label some search ads to say, "Not a government website."

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Google Search Testing Shaded Stock Price Interface

Google is testing a shaded box design for the stock pricing and information in the Google Search results. Google has these shaded designs in other areas as well but for now, this may just be a test.

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Google AI Mode Tests Moving Query To Right Side

Google is testing moving your query from the left top position to the right top position of the AI response within AI Mode. This is a subtle change but it is interesting to see Google test these small changes to AI Mode.

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Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5786 - Happy & Healthy Jewish New Year

This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday are Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 23rd and September 24th...

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Google AI Mode Product Listings Tests AI-Generated Product Summaries

Google is testing AI-generated product summaries in the AI Mode results, after you click on a specific product. I was able to generate this in one out of every four browser attempts, and here is how it works.

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Google Search Translate A Conversation Button

Google is testing a button that takes you from Google Search short translations answers, to the ability to translate a full conversation in another interface.

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Google August 2025 Spam Update To Probably Finish Tomorrow - 9/22

The Google August 2025 spam update will probably be marked as completed tomorrow, September 22, 2025. That is what John Mueller from Google said deep inside a comment on a LinkedIn post. He wrote today, "Just between us, we'll probably mark it complete tomorrow."

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Google Search: Red Live Label On What People Are Saying Carousel

We've covered the What people are saying carousel and section within the Google Search results. We've covered the red live label for news stories. We are now seeing the two combined.

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