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Google Prohibits Showing Different Prices In Search/AI Mode vs Website

Google Prohibits Showing Different Prices In Search/AI Mode vs Website2+ hour, 20+ min ago   (164+ words) Lindsay Owens wrote "Big/bad news for consumers. Google is out today with an announcement of how they plan to integrate shopping into their AI offerings including search and Gemini. The plan includes "personalized upselling." I.e. Analyzing your chat data and…...

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Google Says Linking Brand Websites Together At Reasonable Scale Is Fine

Google Says Linking Brand Websites Together At Reasonable Scale Is Fine2+ hour, 30+ min ago   (142+ words) Google's John Mueller was asked if it was acceptable to link your brand websites together on a brand page to communicate to your users that the company owns multiple brands. John said, it is pretty common to do so and…...

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Google AdSense Earnings Dropping Again eCPM/RPM

Google AdSense Earnings Dropping Again eCPM/RPM2+ hour, 40+ min ago   (159+ words) I am seeing a spike in complaints from Google AdSense publishers of earnings dropping again over the past 24-hours or so. This is similar to last week, and it also coincides with an unconfirmed Google search ranking update. There are…...

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Google Ads Create An Account With Campaign For Faster Set Up

Google Ads Create An Account With Campaign For Faster Set Up2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (100+ words) For the past few weeks, Google Ads has been rolling out a new and faster way to set up an account by using an existing campaign. The option reads, "Create an account with campaign for faster setup." This was posted…...

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Google Search Ranking Volatility Around January 12

Google Search Ranking Volatility Around January 121+ day, 2+ hour ago   (229+ words) I am seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking update or volatility around January 12, 2026. This is weird in that most of the tools, not all, are mostly calm, but the chatter has picked up and many SEOs are noticing…...

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Google Hotel Knowledge Panels Posting Is Currently Turned Off Bug

Google Hotel Knowledge Panels Posting Is Currently Turned Off Bug1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (162+ words) Google seems to have a bug that prevents searchers from leaving hotel reviews directly in the Google Search desktop interface. It works fine within Google Maps and Hotel search interfaces but not in the web search interface. It shows a…...

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Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode

Google Introduces Agentic Commerce Protocol & Direct Offers Ads In AI Mode2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (456+ words) In a rare Sunday launch, Google announced new AI Mode ads named Direct Offers. Google also announced branded AI agents and a new open standard for agentic commerce it calls Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). One of the last announcements in…...

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Google Ads Performance Max A/B Testing Assets (Beta)

Google Ads Performance Max A/B Testing Assets (Beta)2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (122+ words) Google Ads has a new experiment feature for Performance Max campaigns that lets you A/B-test assets. This allows you to compare the performance of 2 different sets of assets within the same asset group to find out which creative combination…...

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Google Ads Brand Linking Experiment Feature

Google Ads Brand Linking Experiment Feature2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (138+ words) Google Ads seems to be slowly rolling out a new Google Ads experimental feature in the Google Ads Lab section named Brand Linking. Brand linking lets you "Link customers to brands," it reads. This was spotted by Bia Camargo who…...

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Google: Don't Turn Your Content Into Bite-Sized Chunks

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (263+ words) Google's Danny Sullivan said on the Search Off the Record podcast that was published yesterday that Google does not want you to turn your content into bite-sized chunks to rank well in LLMs. He said, "we don't want you to…...