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Google's February 2026 Discover Core Update
Today we've
released
the February 2026 Discover core update. This is a broad update to our systems that surface
articles in Discover. Our testing shows that people find the Discover [...]
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NEW Amanda Farley talks broken pixels and calm leadership
Amanda Farley shares lessons on overcoming setbacks and balancing AI with human insight in modern marketing leadership.
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Google Shows How To Check Passage Indexing via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google's John Mueller offered a simple solution to the question of whether a passage is indexed and is ready to rank.
Search Engine Journal
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 6, 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.
Google unleashed its first core update of 2026...
Search Engine Roundtable
Report: ChatGPT & Perplexity Treat Structured Data As Text On A Page
To fuel the debate in the SEO world of the topic of structured data and LLMs and AI engines, we are hearing that once again, AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity are not using structured data in [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Daily Search Forum Recap: February 5, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Search Engine Roundtable
Google releases Discover core update – February 2026
This Discover update will show more locally relevant content based on the users country.
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Why Google’s Performance Max advice often fails new advertisers
Early Performance Max adoption often reduces insight and control. Shopping campaigns provide clearer performance signals and faster learning.
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Google Search Hits $63B, Details AI Mode Ad Tests via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google is testing ads in AI Mode as Search revenue grew 17% to $63 billion. AI Mode queries run 3x longer than traditional searches.
Search Engine Journal
Google Ads no longer runs on keywords. It runs on intent.
If you’re still building Google Ads around keywords, you’re behind. Here's what that means for eligibility, structure, and PPC strategy.
Search Engine Land
Why content that ranks can still fail AI retrieval
AI systems don’t evaluate pages the way search engines do. Learn how extraction, embeddings, and structure determine reuse.
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The latest AI news we announced in January
Google AI announcements from January
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Discover Core Update, Listicles Hit, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads Ready & Microsoft Publisher Content Marketplace
This week, we covered the first core update of 2026, the February 2026 Discover core update. Meanwhile, there is an ongoing super-heated and volatile Google search rankings. Google has nothing to [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up Big Time Starting On February 2nd
I was hoping, well, not really, that Google would calm down a bit since we had such a volatile January.
But the Google Search results volatility is still very volatile, and the shuffling in those [...]
Search Engine Roundtable