Google has fixed two bugs this weekend related to Google Search.

Google’s August spam update rolls out as generative UI reaches AI Overviews, websites get a new button, and Reddit’s ChatGPT citation share falls. The post Spam Update, Generative UI In AIOs, Reddit Drop – SEO Pulse appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

One year of AI Mode data shows people asking questions, not typing fragments, which is why the lead-first paragraph now beats the narrative arc. The post AI Mode Queries Are 3X Longer – Why Your Page Should Lead With The Answer appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

AI labs are buying pre-2022 books to avoid training on AI slop while quietly building text watermarking, exposing why content-at-scale strategies are a losing bet. The post The House Doesn’t Publish Its Tells appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

The crawl stats report within Google Search Console has a data gap again. This time the crawl stats report is missing August 15 and 16th crawl data

Google has released its third spam update of the 2026 year, the August 2026 spam update this week and finished rolling out Friday morning at 4:50am. Google Search’s AI Mode is now being powered sometimes by…

AI Overviews can now build interactive tools inside Search. Google’s testing shows generated interfaces often beat top results in head-to-head comparisons

Google has updated the Preferred Sources button that publishers have on their websites to make it so that the user is taken right back to the page they were originally on. There is new embed code that handles this process to make it easier for users to go back to where they were and stay on your website.

Microsoft Advertising sent out emails yesterday announcing changes coming to Max CPC bidding. Microsoft wrote, “Max CPC will no longer be available when creating new non-portfolio campaigns” after October 1, 2026.