Google has updated fourteen different help center documents, specific to Google Ads policy. Google said the updates “improved organization and readability” of those help center articles.
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Google Ads Updated 14 Policy Help Center Articles
Microsoft is testing placing “Recent searches” at the top of the Bing Search results page. This is instead of it being placed at the bottom or the side.
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Bing Tests Recent Searches At Top Of Search Results
Google is testing a new section in the Google Search results titled “From online stores.” We’ve seen a similar section for nearby stores but I am not sure if we’ve seen the online stores version.
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Google From Online Stores Section In Search
Google is now showing the energy-saving label with a green leaf icon in the product listings side panel within Google Search. We saw these on special compare and save type of search box but now they may be shown in the product listings box.
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Google Search Energy-Saving Green Leaf Label On Product Listings
Google Merchant Center now lets you preview your promotions, your sponsored ads, before adding them. Google also added two check boxes to your customer service section for live versus chatbot support.
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Google Merchant Center Ads Promotions Preview & Chat Checkbox
Google Trends seems to be broken or stalled over the past few hours. If you filter Google Trends for a specific region and then say only show me trends over the past four hours, you may only see a few keywords show up and not pages of keywords, like you’d normally expect.
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Google Trends Stalled With Four Hour Filter
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Google’s Gary Illyes said that AI-generated content should have human editorial oversight.
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Google Confirms That AI-Generated Content Should Be Human Reviewed via @sejournal, @martinibuster
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Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that AI-generated content does not have a negative impact on SEO. The post Google Says AI-Generated Content Will Not Cause Ranking Penalty appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Says AI-Generated Content Will Not Cause Ranking Penalty via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google Analytics seems not to be functioning properly again.
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Google Analytics Real Time Reporting Not Working Again
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. Another weekend…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2025