Google November 2026 Core Update Is Rolling Out
Google officially announced the rollout of the November 2026 core update just now, on Tuesday at around 1:07 pm ET. This core update is expected to take about 2 weeks to roll out. Google said, "This is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites."
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Google Search Console Generative AI Performance Report Data Bug Nov 9 - 11
Google has confirmed a data logging bug in the Search Console Generative AI performance report in Search between the dates of November 9 and November 11, 2026 which resulted in a decrease in impressions.
Google Search Gets Massive Upgrade With Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Google Search has received a "massive upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen," said Nick Fox of Google. "The biggest model upgrade to Search yet has landed," said Robby Stein of Google. It is super fast, has better understanding, improved query fan-out and linking, more visual responses and richer language understanding.
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New Google Help Doc Explains How To Identifying Traffic From Google Search
Google has published a new help document named Identify Google Search traffic in your web analytics or server logs. This document explains how to see if Google Search is sending you traffic in your own web analytics system or server logs by inspecting the HTTP Referer header.
OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Updates: Intelligent Bidding, New Cost Targets, Geo-Flexibility & Product Set Filters
OpenAI just sent out its weekly ChatGPT Ads update email announcing a number of updates including intelligent bidding, new cost targets in Ads Manager, more geographic flexibility for product feed campaigns and more flexible product set filters.
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 12, 2026
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Google Ads New Invalid Traffic (IVT) Overview Card
Google Ads announced a new Invalid Traffic (IVT) overview card within Google Search. Google's Keerat Sharma wrote, "We’re rolling out the Invalid Traffic Overview Card in Google Ads to give advertisers front-end transparency into how we protect their campaigns."
Google Ads Disallows Impersonate Public Figures With AI Even If Disclosed
Google Ads clarified in its unacceptable Business Practices policy that impersonating public figures using AI isn’t allowed, even if they disclose that they were generated or edited using AI.
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Google Ads Disallows Targeting Users Based On Prohibited Content Interests
Nov 12, 2026Google Ads 'Found On Site' Icon & More Pages Label On Sponsored Results
Nov 12, 2026Google Ads Editor Version 2.14 Is Now Available
Nov 12, 2026Google Ads Data Strength Uplift Metric Doc
Nov 12, 2026Bing Touts Two Methods To Turn Off AI In Search But It's Not A Search Setting
Nov 12, 2026Google Placing Source Icons At Bottom Of AI Overviews
Nov 11, 2026Google Ads API Version 26.2 Now Out Available
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