Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 17, 2026
Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI.
This week, we saw some Google Search ranking volatility around July 11th, so I called it the 7-Eleven update. Bing said it does not do one-off search penalties because it is not scalable. Google Images celebrated its 25th anniversary…
The PPC community has been going wild over the change that is coming to Google Ads around bidding for campaigns limited by budget on August 18th. There is some belief that this is going to be a broader smart bidding update than what Google communicated.
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Google Ads Making Broader Smart Bidding Updates? Google Says No.
Google has removed its help document named “Make OpenTable reservations in Google Maps” yesterday. It looks like that implies that Google Maps removed the integration it has with restaurant listings and making reservations with OpenTable.
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Did Google Maps Turn Off OpenTable Reservations?
As many of you know, Google has user-triggered fetchers including Google-NotebookLM. But with NotebookLM being renamed to Gemini Notebook, Google had to update the user agent name of Google-NotebookLM to Google-GeminiNotebook.
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Google Renamed NotebookLM Useragent To Google-GeminiNotebook
As many of you know, Google has user-triggered fetchers including Google-NotebookLM.
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Google Renamed NotebookLM Useragent To Google-GeminiNotebook
Google has updated the help document named How to fix: Google StoreBot crawler can’t access your in-store product page. The document has a number of big updates with a lot of clarifications including the user-agents, checking robots.txt, blocking IP addresses, page speed issues, reprocessing and how long it takes for your landing pages to be reprocessed.
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Google StoreBot Accessibility Issues Help Document Updated
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Google’s John Mueller says that overall site quality is more than just text. How users experience the page can define quality, too. The post Google Explains SEO Connection Of Site Quality To Non-Indexed Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Google Explains SEO Connection Of Site Quality To Non-Indexed Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Microsoft Bing is testing using a black colored magnifying glass in the search bar and box. This is instead of a gray or black outlined icon, the test is a fully colored in icon.
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Bing Tests Black Magnifying Glass Icon In Search Bar