Google's John Mueller went off again on programmatic SEO, this time saying that programmatic SEO can "often leads to a site that's either spam, borderline spam, or low quality," he wrote. These tactics can often lead Google's "systems have possibly lost faith in your site providing good value to users based on the old pages."
Google has posted a new help document explaining the regional differences in the Google Search experience. This document includes information about search experiences available in certain countries, such as aggregator units, supplier units, and carousels.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Google has rolled out its Digital Markets Act changes in Europe and called it the "largest reduction in quality" in the life of Google Search. "The changes mark the largest reduction in quality of service at the world's most popular internet search engine in its 29-year search history," Google official told Reuters.
Google Business Profiles insights analytics report is missing data for the whole month of September 2026. Normally these reports can be a few days delayed but now we 8 days into the month and I still do not see any data.
Some advertisers are starting to see the new AI dashboards within Google Ads. As a reminder, Google showed off these Gemini-powered Google Ads dashboards last May and then in August said they would roll out soon and I guess now some advertisers are seeing it.
Google is testing a new form of responses in AI Mode that offers paginated follow-up questions and responses, with a skip button to skip them.
The Google Search Console link report has now not been updated for a month. The last time the report was updated with fresh link data was around August 8, 2026 - a month ago.