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Google Discover Feed Showing More Social Media Posts
1+ hour, 53+ min ago (268+ words) Google has reportedly confirmed that the Google Discover feed has recently increased how often it shows social media posts in the feed. We covered this in January, and while we know Google does show social media in the Discover feed,…...
Google AI Mode Sidebar Links Don't Pass Referrers
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (63+ words) Google AI Mode Sidebar Links Don't Pass Referrers'Search Engine Roundtable Google AI Mode doesn't always pass referrer data from the links on the sidebar. This is supposedly being looked at by the Google Search team and hopefully will be fixed…...
Google Knowledge Panels With Color Table Elements
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (95+ words) Google Knowledge Panels With Colored Table Elements Sections Rolling Out'Search Engine Roundtable Google seems to be rolling out colorful sections in the knowledge panels. Sometimes you will see gray, sometimes blue, sometimes orange and sometimes green and maybe more. But…...
How Google Picks Image Thumbnails In Google Search & Google Discover
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (206+ words) Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google picks a preferred image thumbnail for Google Search and Google Discover. Google wrote it "uses both schema.org markup and the og:image meta tag…...
Animal Musicians At Google Office
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (87+ words) Dressed As Animal Musicians At Google Office'Search Engine Roundtable Dressed As Animal Musicians At Google Office I am really not sure what is going on here but here are some folks dressed up as animals, a horse and panda bear,…...
Google Patent On Sending Searchers To AI-Generated Pages Over Your Site
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (315+ words) There is a Google patent named AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user. It describes the use of AI to create custom landing pages and when a user performs a search, Google Search sends the user to the AI-generated…...
Google Search Ranking Volatility Still Heated Into March
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (140+ words) Google Search rankings remain heated into March - I mean, I can post about this every day but now I am at the point of just doing it weekly. We thought things might be cooling a bit, but the volatility really…...
Google To Allow Publishers To Claim Google Discover Profiles?
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (136+ words) Google might be allowing publishers to claim their profiles and publications on Google Discover. I mean, there were forms of this for Google News, Google Business Profiles, even Google Search over the years, but there are hints this is coming…...
March 2026 Google Webmaster Report: Google Discover Update, Listicles, Serving Bug & More
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (158+ words) Google did have a brief serving bug that it confirmed, but it didn't seem too impactful. Google may have hit listicles sites or was it a reviews update? Google's update to it's file size limits which caused some confusion. The…...
Google Ads Sponsored Options In The Area
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (94+ words) Google Ads Label: Sponsored Options In The Area'Search Engine Roundtable Google Ads has often used dynamic labels for some of the ad groupings. I mean, we've seen tons of variations of these and I am not sure if they mean…...