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. Google Image Search turned 25 years old and with that…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 15, 2026
Long doesn’t mean valuable. Google normalizes for length. Here’s what its information gain patent says actually moves the needle
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How Google May ‘Understand’ Unique Content
Google’s Mueller says long A/B tests won’t result in SEO demotions, contradicting official guidance that says they may be considered deceptive.
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Google Says No SEO Penalty For Year-Long A/B Tests? via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google Image Search turned 25 years old and to celebrate, Google revamped the Google Image Search home page. Instead of a clean image search box, Google added an image gallery and placed a search bar at the top of the page.
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Google Image Search Home Page Goes From Simple Search Box To Gallery
Google AI Overviews can now generate AI images based on your questions, directly in the AI Overview response in Google Search. Google wrote, “To help bring those unique ideas to life, we’re bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews in Search.”
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AI Image Generation Now Within Google AI Overviews
OpenAI added more features to ChatGPT Ads Manager, the ability to exclude your ads from showing based on geo-location and/or audience lists. ChatGPT Ads Manager continues to rapidly add new advertising features to its ad platform.
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ChatGPT Ads Get Location & Audience Exclusion Controls
GA4’s AI Assistant channel fragments traffic from a single source into three separate channels, making your AI referral numbers quietly wrong. The post GA4’s AI Assistant Channel Undercounts Your AI Traffic: How To Build One That Doesn’t appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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GA4’s AI Assistant Channel Undercounts Your AI Traffic: How To Build One That Doesn’t
Google has confirmed that it is testing the hide and show sponsored results within the Google Shopping search results interface. Google launched the hide/show sponsored results in the main search results last October and is now testing this feature within Google Shopping.
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Google Confirms Testing Hide Sponsored Products In Shopping Results
Google’s John Mueller noted that if your A/B tests are “significantly different” from one and the other, then that “could be visible in search results too.” He also said, “Depending on your setup, what might happen is that one or the other version is used for indexing.”
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Google: Significant Differences With A/B Tests Can Show In Search Results
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Google announced it is no longer allowing the advertisement of prediction markets contracts and related products ads in Michigan and New York. Plus, Google also expanded Google Shopping ads and free listings eligibility to more countries.
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Google Bans Prediction Markets Product Ads Michigan & New York; Expands Shopping Ads & Free Listings