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NEW Programming Note: Offline For Simchat Torah On Tuesday & Wednesday
This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday are Simchat Torah and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14th and October 15th.
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Daily Search Forum Recap: October 13, 2025
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.
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Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Google's Robby Stein On AI Not Replacing Search, AI Within Search, SEO For AI
Lenny Rachitsky interviewed Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google, who we cited here numerous times over the past couple of years.
The interview covers how AI is not replacing search, search is not [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
New: Google Business Profile Report Negative Review Extortion Scams
Google has published a new help document on the topic of Google Business Profile negative review extortion scams.
The document explains what they are, how to report the scam, what to expect and more [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Google Quietly Signals NotebookLM Ignores Robots.txt via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google quietly signals that NotebookLM will not obey the robots.txt protocol. This how to block it.
Search Engine Journal
GA4 Surge In Organic Search Traffic But Search Console Flat
There are a nice number of reports of GA4, Google Analytics, showing a huge surge in organic search traffic over the past couple of days, but Google Search Console is not showing any increase, it [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
Semantic SEO: How to optimize for meaning over keywords
Semantic SEO helps search engines understand context. Learn how to use entities, topics, and intent to build richer content that ranks higher.
Search Engine Land
Google Lighthouse 13 Launches With Insight-Based Audits via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google's Lighthouse 13 replaces many legacy audits with insights aligned to Chrome DevTools, removes outdated checks, and keeps performance scoring unchanged.
Search Engine Journal
NEW Google Search gets Nano Banana in Google Lens
This is Google's latest image generation technology from within Gemini - now available in Search.
Search Engine Land
NEW Nano Banana is coming to Google Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
Google is bringing AI image editing with Nano Banana to Search, NotebookLM and Photos.
NEW Google Ads Officially Launches Grouped Ad Label For Search Ads
Google has officially launched the new grouped sponsored label in the search results. This is where Google groups multiple ads under one larger sponsored label, and then places a "hide" [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
NEW Google rolls out new global ‘Sponsored results’ ad label
The new global ad labeling could reshape how users see and interact with sponsored results, effecting CTR, on Google Search.
Search Engine Land
Google Voice Search Now Powered By Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R)
Google has updated its Voice Search models to be powered by Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R). Google said this allows it to "gets answers straight from your spoken query without having to convert it to [...]
Search Engine Roundtable
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 [...]
Search Engine Roundtable