Bloomberg reports that the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Google (and Amazon) on whether the companies misled advertisers by not properly disclosing the terms and pricing for ads on their websites.
No, Google Search Console did not add an AI Overviews filter to the Search Performance report. There was a ton of buzz this morning that Google added the ability to filter out AI Overview data in Search Console, but it was a fake and not a real screenshot.
Google AI Mode is upending advertising models.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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This week, I covered the ongoing Google August 2025 spam update and how it heated up this week.
On Thursday, September 11, 2025, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was on January 23, 2025, over seven months ago. This update gives minor clarification as it relates to rating YMYL content and adds a handful of additional examples for rating newer features like AI Overviews.
Google Search seems to be testing dropping the ability to see 100 search results on a single page.
Microsoft Advertising is testing using three dots, instead of the arrow down, for the sponsored ads URL in the Bing search results.
Google may be starting to show AI Overviews when you ask for a currency exchange. I can’t seem to fully replicate this but others are starting to see this.