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

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Google will soon support dark mode in Google Search Console. Ariel Kroszynski, a Senior Software Engineer at Google, announced this at the Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 in Barcelona last week.

Google spoke at the three-day Google Search Central Live Deep Dive event in Europe about why it has rolled out so many spam updates in 2026, according to John Campbell’s recap at We Are Roast.

Google Ads sent an email notifying some advertisers that it will automatically identify and extract high-quality promotions from your website and apply them directly to your campaigns starting on October 12, 2026. This is called automated promotions and only applies to Search and Performance Max campaigns with linked location assets.

Google seems to have a bug of sorts where sometimes it can show the three dots about this ad or search result button twice, instead of just once.

Gary Illyes from Google reportedly presented new data from Google Search on how long Google for crawling, indexing and serving on average. This is broken down by process, withing crawling, indexing and serving and shows the typical timeframe versus the slowest timeframe.

Gary Illyes from Google reportedly presented new data from Google Search on how long Google for crawling, indexing and serving on average.

Google Ads has a new AI campaign localization tool for Search campaigns (beta), at least according to a new help document I found late last week.