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Google Search Console now lets you add custom annotations to performance charts, making it easier to track when changes or external events occurred. The post Google Search Console Adds Custom Annotations To Reports appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Real-world cases reveal how failures in LLM systems spread harm and misattribute sources. Here are concrete actions SEOs can take now.

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Google Ads may be introducing a new bidding type named Journey Aware bidding in 2026. This will be reportedly for search campaigns using Target CPA.

There have been several complaints over the past week about Google showing searchers its old Google Search design. Some of those search results seem to lead to a broken interface, while others just look like they are from a decade or so ago.

Google added a carousel to the top of the image tab within some Google Search apps, I think it might be a test. The carousel lets you scroll through some ideas to get you started with your image search.

We know Google has been using machine learning and more recently, AI, to generate search result snippets descriptions. Well, here is an example of Google getting a snippet not just wrong, but downright insulting.