Google announced the Google December 2025 core update on Thursday afternoon, December 11th, and it already has a significant impact on Google Search results.
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Google December 2025 Core Update Intense Impact Early
Google continues evolution beyond text-first interactions with upgrades to Search Live Gemini model, possibly complicating SEO. The post Google Updates Search Live With Gemini Model Upgrade appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Microsoft analyzed 37.5 million Copilot chats and found differences in how people use the assistant on mobile versus desktop. The post How People Use Copilot Depends On Device, Microsoft Says appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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How People Use Copilot Depends On Device, Microsoft Says via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2025
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Google’s December 2025 core update leads this week’s SEO Pulse, alongside Preferred Sources expansion and social insights in Search Console. The post SEO Pulse: December Core Update, Preferred Sources & Social Data appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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In this week’s recap, we covered that the Google December 2025 core update was unleashed. Google also said more core updates are definitely on their way and one should be coming soon Google also updated its…
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google December 2025 Core Update, Discover Alignment To Rankings, Search Console Features, AI Mode Updates & More
Google announced that Gemini can now respond to your local questions with local results in a “rich, visual format.” Google will visually lay out the local results to include photos, ratings, and real-world info from Google Maps data.
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Google Gemini Local Results In Visual Formats
Brad Geddes dug into how he felt “AI Max can trump your existing exact and phrase match keywords and then claim credit for the conversions and revenue.” And then Google’s Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin responded to those specific examples on why this happened and what Google is changing in the future with Google Ads AI Max.
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Google On AI Max Inferred Intent vs Raw Text
Google Maps is updating its share buttons by removing the options to share on X and adding the options to share on Reddit and Facebook.
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Google Maps Share Button Drops X For Reddit & Facebook
On Wednesday, Google announced a number of new AI features, which we covered (links below) but one other feature Google spoke about was “AI-powered article overviews.” This is an experiment Google News is trying with a handful of publishers.
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Google News AI-Powered Article Overviews Go Live For Some Publishers