Google Ads will roll out a change to language targeting that will remove the ability to manually adjust the language setting. This change is happening next month, in September 2026

A month ago, we reported that Google said it would be rolling out AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search. Well, it seems Google is starting to roll out those AI-generated images in AI Overviews this week.

Google updated a help document within the Google Merchant Center help area to document that Google Merchant Center for Agencies can now link to up to 1,000 Merchant Center accounts. Previously, that number was not there, and now we know – up to 1,000 accounts can be linked to a single agency account.

As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, California. But the truth is, that is where they self-declare the bots are coming from.

Google has a new reporting option for reviews in Google Business Profiles and Google Local. This one is called “Report owner response.” It lets you tell Google if an owner response to a review is off-topic, contains profanity, is harassing, discriminatory, hateful, or includes personal information.

Google Ads is changing language targeting for Search and Performance Max in September 2026. Learn what’s changing and what advertisers need to know

Practitioners value AI visibility data highly and won’t fund the platforms selling it. New survey data on what’s actually blocking the category. The post The GEO Trust Gap: SEOs Want The Data, But Not The Platforms Selling It appeared first on Search Engine Journal

PPC managers inheriting an account: verify the conversion value before touching the bid strategy. Five checks that separate real revenue from phantom value

Anthropic has revealed enough about Claude’s watermark to identify how it might work. A new research paper may be the clue. The post Why Anthropic’s Claude Watermark May Be A New Text-Marking Method appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Search referrals measure how people reach Reddit. They don’t measure why people go looking for it, and that gap is where the value sits. The post Reddit Preserved The Part Of The Internet We Broke appeared first on Search Engine Journal