Google Search Console’s Discover performance report has a weird bug. It started early yesterday morning where a blue notice prompt would show up and have a mysterious hashtag, with the text “Learn more” and “Got it.” This is obviously a bug.

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

Agentic SEO introduces a more efficient, AI-assisted way of working, without losing the human insight that drives real results.

Google is now pushing search ads on AI Mode and the desktop version of AI Overviews. Google’s Vidhya Srinivasan said at Google Marketing Live, “we’re expanding ads in AI Overviews to desktop, and bringing ads to AI Mode to create new opportunities for our customers.”

Google announced a new bidding update to Google Ads named Smart Bidding Exploration.

Google announced a number of AI-related features to help advertisers create and manage their ads account across Google Ads and Merchant Center. These include new AI tools for creating ads and creatives and also agentic capabilities to help you with this on the backend.

Google has published two new help documents on the topic of AI; one on guidance on using generative AI content on your website and the second on AI features and your website. Google also published a blog post on the topics over here.