Google has updated its Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program page with details on the program. Google has been designated as a “gatekeeper” under the DMA and is thus legally required to share its search data with competing search engines to foster fair competition.
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Google European Search Dataset Licensing Program Details
Three role changes and a budget rebalance can move a marketing team from invisible to cited in AI search results, no new headcount required.
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How To Restructure Your Marketing Team & Budget For The AI-Search Era
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 Search is making AI Overviews fully expanded for some queries, making it more like AI Mode and pushing the core search results down…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2026
As Google Ads automates more decisions, advertisers must define success beyond platform metrics, tracking leads and sales through to actual business outcomes. The post Google Ads Is Automating More Decisions, Your Measurement Needs To Get Better appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Microsoft Advertising is previewing a new design and usability update for its ad platform. This update has a redesigned navigation and improved tables and layouts. This update should make managing your ad campaigns more efficient and intuitive.
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Microsoft Advertising New Updated Design Preview
Google posted a note that it has made enhancements to the Merchant Center’s Popular products reports. Specifically, the coverage and insights sections were improved back in June of this year, but Google just posted about this information on this past Friday afternoon.
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Google Merchant Center Popular Products Enhanced Coverage & Insights
Microsoft is now forcing all users to log in before using Copilot, but this currently does not apply to Copilot Search answers within Bing Search. When you try to go directly to Copilot, even by clicking on the Copilot button on Bing’s home page, you are asked to sign into your account.
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Microsoft Forcing Copilot Users To Login But Not For Copilot Search Answers
Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-resourced in its fight against search spam. The spam team continues to update its spam algorithms, such as the latest Google August 2026 spam update, to help reduce spam in Google Search results.
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Google Confirms Search Spam Team Is Fighting & Well Resourced
Rajan Patel, VP of Engineering for Google Search, has confirmed that the Google Search team is still well-resourced in its fight against search spam.
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Google Confirms Search Spam Team Is Fighting & Well Resourced
Google is now showing shopping ads in a carousel format inline within AI Mode results. Plus, Google is also showing a similar ad unit at the bottom of the AI Mode results. We got a lot of ads in AI Mode now, and I guess Google is looking for more and more ways to monetize those ads.
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Google AI Mode With Inline Shopping Carousel Ads & Single Ad Unit