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Google’s November 2026 Core Update Starts Rolling Out via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google has begun rolling out its November 2026 core update globally and says it may take up to two weeks to complete. Search Engine Journal

Google Loses Another Round in Legal Battle Against SerpApi Over Scraping

Google has lost again in SerpApi's scraping legal fight in court, with the court giving Google 21 days to amend its complaint. But this is a major win for SerpApi and this case seems like it might be [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Brand Lists Global Brand Library

Google updated its About brand settings for Search and Performance Max help document to clarify how to manage brands within your brand list. Specifically, Google said, "Google's brand library [...] Search Engine Roundtable

New Google Ads Overview Page: Customer Journey Insights

Google Ads posted a new help document about customer journey insights. "Customer Journey Insights is a new Google Ads Overview page reporting card pilot for eligible advertisers. It provides [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Crawled/Discovered - Currently Not Indexed A Site Quality Issue

This is not new, but hey, John Mueller from Google said it again, getting a status of Crawled/Discovered - Currently Not Indexed within Google Search Console's page indexing report may be a sign that [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Visit Site Link In Mobile Search Ad Description

Google Ads is also adding the Visit site link in the mobile ad descriptions for search ads. We saw them on the desktop ads with a Visit site button and also on organic results search and now also as [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Merchant Loyalty Program New Eligibility Requirements

Google has posted new eligibility requirements for the merchant loyalty program. As a reminder, Loyalty is an add-on feature in the Merchant Center for merchants with an existing loyalty program who [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Performance Max Page Feeds Updated

Google Ads has updated its Page feeds section for Performance Max campaigns to help advertisers understand how it works. These changes look like they should make it easier for advertisers to know [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Google Discovers Unexpected Patterns In AI Image Generation via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Google analyzed millions of Nano Banana prompts and found how businesses are using it for marketing. Search Engine Journal

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 11, 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 has begun the rollout of the November 2026 [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Moving to a CDN without overwhelming your origin (or blocking Googlebot)

Deploying a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to distribute your site's assets across fast, globally distributed edge servers closer to users can be a major upgrade for any growing site: it lowers [...] Google Webmaster Central

Google: How Moving to a CDN Can Accidentally Overwhelm Your Website

Gary Illyes and Chery Prommawin released the final video in the Non-Canonical Cabinet series, this one is on CDNs, content delivery networks. They discuss why migrating a website to a CDN can [...] Search Engine Roundtable

Your choice: Turn AI answers on or off in Bing

When it comes to AI, we believe Bing users should have a choice in how they search. That's why Bing offers both AI-powered and traditional search experiences, including a browser extension that lets [...] Bing Search

Google Ads API Version 26.2 Now Out Available

Google Ads has just released a minor update to its Google Ads API - version 26.2. This update touches on assets, campaigns, reporting, and more general updates. Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search AI Overview Definitions Expanded By Default

Google is expanding the AI Overviews for definitions by default, where you no longer have to click on "Show more" to see the full version of the AI Overview. This is similar to when Google [...] Search Engine Roundtable