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The latest jobs in search marketing

Land your next job in SEO or PPC. These brands and agencies are hiring to fill open search marketing positions right now. Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: January 22, 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. Apple to have two different releases of Siri and [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Shopify Shares More Details On Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Shopify's Harvey Finkelstein said agentic shopping surfaces products because they fit the user, not because brands can buy visibility. Search Engine Journal

Google adds cross-campaign testing with new Mix Experiments beta

Google’s Campaign Mix Experiments beta lets advertisers test multiple campaign types and budgets together to find what works best. Search Engine Land

Personal Intelligence in AI Mode in Search: Help that's uniquely yours

Personal Intelligence is coming to Search; Google AI Pro & AI Ultra subscribers can opt-in to connect Gmail and Google Photos to AI Mode Inside Search

Google Search Makes Recipe Results More Publisher Friendly

A few weeks ago, we covered how damaging the Google Search results were for recipe publishers and bloggers. It was nicknamed Frankenstein recipes because it would take pieces of these recipes from [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Why Demand Gen works best alongside Performance Max for ecommerce

Demand Gen offers more creative and audience control than PMax. Learn when to use it and how to combine both for ecommerce growth. Search Engine Land

Google Ads PMax Asset Group Editing Bug

Google Ads currently has a bug where if you try to edit your asset groups within your Performance Max campaigns in the web user interface, it simply won't work. Google is reportedly aware of the [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Falls Back To Featured Snippets When AI Overviews Don't Generate

Google will sometimes fall back to showing featured snippets when it is unable to generate AI Overviews for a query. And when that happens, it sometimes looks like an AI Overview, but it is not an [...] Search Engine Roundtable

What 75 SEO thought leaders reveal about volatility in the GEO debate [Research]

AI search sentiment is positive, but consistency isn’t. Data shows why volatility – not acronyms – is the real risk. Search Engine Land

Google Ads bug removes notes option for some advertisers

A Google Ads bug is causing the option to add account notes to disappear for some advertisers, complicating change tracking and documentation. Search Engine Land

Agentic AI and vibe coding: The next evolution of PPC management

Agentic AI and custom-built tools are changing how PPC accounts are run – and what marketers need to focus on next. Search Engine Land

How to explain flat traffic when SEO is actually working

AI Overviews are reshaping organic attribution. Learn which metrics matter now and how to clearly communicate SEO impact to stakeholders. Search Engine Land

A smarter way to approach AI prompting

Prompts describe tasks. Rubrics define rules. Here’s how rubric-based prompting reduces hallucinations in search and content workflows. Search Engine Land

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Double Heated, Personal Intelligence in AI Mode, ChatGPT Ads & Apple Siri Updates Coming

This week, we covered the doubly heated Google Search ranking volatility, but nothing was confirmed by Google. OpenAI will soon test ads in ChatGPT responses and they will charge on an impression [...] Search Engine Roundtable