Google is testing removing AI Mode from the search tab bar within Google Search and also removing the Ask anything follow-up box within the AI Overviews in Google Search. This follows our reports of Google removing the AI Mode buttons from the Google homepage. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

As you know, Microsoft had a major Microsoft 365 outage yesterday and into today, affecting many businesses and users. But it didn't seem to directly affect Microsoft Advertising or ads in Bing Search. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Target frequency campaigns can pair non-skippable ads with Shorts and in-feed ads, an updated help page says. Here's what changed and where the limits are. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

Turn Google Ads automation decisions into proof of your AI skills by logging overrides, checks, and results that a Skillshop certificate can't show. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

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 says it has pushed its biggest model update to Google Search yet with Gemini 4 Hydrogen - yes, during a core update... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

AI influencers are reshaping brand marketing. See what consumer sentiment data reveals about trust, authenticity, and whether they drive real revenue. (Tegnap | hubspot)

Google has begun the rollout of the November 2026 core update. Google also had search ranking volatility on November 8th and 9th. Google released a major update to Google Search with Gemini 4 Hydrogen days after Gemini 4 Carbon came out. And to top all of that off... (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Spot recurring product complaints and competitor comparisons with Reddit Reviews, then check source comments for context before making marketing decisions. (Tegnap | searchenginejournal)

The Internet Licensing Collective, a nonprofit, publisher-led licensing collective for Internet publishers and creators, launched the other day with Yahoo Scout as its first commercial partner. Yahoo Scout, through the ILC will pay publishers for using their content in its AI responses. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google seems to be bringing back the ability for Google Search to generate images on the fly within Google Search. Google initially announced this back in July of this year and then paused the test the next month after some controversy. Now, it seems to be coming back for some searchers. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Cross-posting saves time, but identical posts can look spammy. Learn how to adapt captions, visuals, and timing, plus the best tools. (Tegnap | hootsuite)

Filing a property insurance claim should be straightforward. You pay premiums for years, something goes... (Tegnap | socialmediaexplorer)

Your posts deserve an audience. Heres how to optimize for social media discoverability on every platform. (Tegnap | hootsuite)

Treasure Valley is booming. From Boise to Meridian, Nampa to Eagle, local businesses are expanding... (Tegnap | socialmediaexplorer)

The new features will enable creators to change the playback speed of their videos and ensure better audio experiences. (Csü. | socialmediatoday)

Robust AIs robots collaborate with humans in logistics warehouses and on factory floors. The startup was founded by MIT alumnus Anthony Jules and Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks. (Tegnap | mit)

MIT researchers are making algorithmic designs more collaborative with a system that acts like an AI copilot for engineers. As the algorithm is generating the structure, it presents regions to the human designer for feedback. (Tegnap | mit)

Three Lincoln Laboratory technologies earned R&D 100 Awards, recognizing them among the year's most innovative inventions available to license or transitioned to use. The technologies are a secure operating system for embedded devices; a platform for fabricating quantum microsystems; and an... (Csü. | mit)

A new training technique streamlines the production of fast, trustworthy, and adaptable AI models for climate prediction, known as climate emulators. The technique, developed at MIT, boosts the performance and adaptability of a climate emulator while using only a fraction of the data typically requi... (Csü. | mit)

Google has updated the editorial requirements for Merchant Center titles saying you can no longer "include dates in any format" within the title of the listing in the redemption section. Previously, the document allowed some date formats, I believe. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google has dropped the "experimental" label from the Deal Ends annotation for Google Merchant Center Product Listing Ads. Google has also said this feature is no longer available in India; previously, it was. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads updated its Conversion Lift help documentation primarily to provide more detailed technical requirements and troubleshooting guidance for advertisers setting up incrementality studies. There are a lot of changes to the document but here are the big ones. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google has added a section to the mobile version of Google Shopping (maybe desktop as well) named "Highlighted on the web." I can see this section when I search for product in Google Shopping on mobile, but I do not see it on the desktop interface. (Tegnap | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads introduces an Invalid Traffic Overview Card showing estimated savings, post-billing credits, and campaign-level reports. Here's what advertisers need to know. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Google made Gemini 4 Hydrogen the default model in AI Mode for all users and uses it for the hardest AI Overview questions, two days into a core update. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Affiliate links still help protect your commissions as AI checkout grows, while stronger tracking and better program choices help preserve referral credit. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

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. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Data shows visits to the world's top million websites declined from an earlier peak, visits going to sites outside the top 100 barely changed. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

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 ... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Microsoft Advertising announces UI improvements addressing advertiser feedback, including easier navigation, expanded reporting, sign-in troubleshooting, and account access management. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

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. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Short answer: lyophilized peptides are shipped dry at ambient temperature as standard practice, and that is appropriate for most sequences. Cold chain packaging is warranted for solutions, for known-sensitive sequences and for long transit routes, and in every case the receiving laboratory's arrival... (Csü. | marketingblog)

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. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

AI referrals versus Google is a fair comparison of two streams feeding a smaller pool, and agents that complete the purchase are where the offset starts. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Learn how to submit your website to ChatGPT through Business Hub, verify your business, and understand what claiming changes for SEO and brand visibility. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Keep your AI search strategy independent of unstable tools by owning your prompts and raw data, so vendor changes don't erase your measurement history. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Google Ads introduces the Invalid Traffic Overview Card for campaign transparency. See your savings and credits from November 2026. Get the details. (Csü. | google ads)

Google Ads announced a new Invalid Traffic (IVT) overview card within Google Search. Google's Keerat Sharma wrote, "Were rolling out the Invalid Traffic Overview Card in Google Ads to give advertisers front-end transparency into how we protect their campaigns." (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads clarified in its unacceptable Business Practices policy that impersonating public figures using AI isnt allowed, even if they disclose that they were generated or edited using AI. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads has added a single line to the Restricted targeting in Personalized advertising policy. Google wrote, "Additionally, advertisers are not allowed to target users based on an interest in categories prohibited in Googles ad network." (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google is testing a new label on its sponsored results on Google Ads named "Found on site." The label also has a text with a magnifying glass icon next to it. Next to the label is a site link that you can click on. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google has released version 2.14 of the Google Ads Editor, which includes 10 new features. (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads has posted a new help document about the data strength uplift metric. This comes a month after Google posted another help document on Data Strength Best Practices. "The data strength uplift metric gives you a clearer picture of the value your first-party data setup delivers in Google Ads,... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Microsoft announced, again, that there are ways to turn off AI features in Bing Search. We covered it twice before, but the first time we covered it, Bing had a search setting to disable AI Search (aka Copilot) from showing up in Bing. The second time, Bing removed that setting and asked people to d... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Instagram Reels can be up to 20 minutes long, but our analysis of 2.7M reels found 90 seconds to 3 minutes gets the most reach. Heres how long yours should be. (Csü. | buffer.com)

Explore the future of retail with AI shopping. Understand how AI affects product visibility and decision-making for consumers. (Csü. | searchenginejournal)

Google is testing moving the citations or sources icons to the very bottom of the AI Overviews. Previously, these icons appeared at the top of the AI Overview; now Google is testing placing them at the bottom, which may make it even harder to find the sources of the answers Google generates in these... (Csü. | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads has just released a minor update to its Google Ads API - version 26.2. This update touches on assets, campaigns, reporting, and more general updates. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Google is expanding the AI Overviews for definitions by default, where you no longer have to click on "Show more" to see the full version of the AI Overview. This is similar to when Google confirmed it dynamically expands some AI Overviews based on the query, but now Google is doing this for all def... (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Gary Illyes and Chery Prommawin released the final video in the Non-Canonical Cabinet series, this one is on CDNs, content delivery networks. They discuss why migrating a website to a CDN can suddenly increase Googlebot crawling activity, why this may overload your origin server, and how to avoid ac... (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

AI visibility can hide evidence gaps that weaken buyer recommendations as requirements get specific, making decision readiness a crucial GEO metric. (Sze. | searchenginejournal)

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 has begun the rollout of the November 2026 core update, it should end right before Thanksgiving/Black Friday. OpenAI has released its ChatGPT busin... (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Google analyzed millions of Nano Banana prompts and discovered that people are using AI for far more than creating AI slop. (Sze. | searchenginejournal)

Curb unwanted Google Ads spending without losing valuable conversions by weighing bidding targets, Performance Max channel grouping, and allocation limits. (Sze. | searchenginejournal)

Google Ads posted a new help document about customer journey insights. "Customer Journey Insights is a new Google Ads Overview page reporting card pilot for eligible advertisers. It provides transparency into how your campaigns move users across conversion journey stages," Google wrote. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

This is not new, but hey, John Mueller from Google said it again, getting a status of Crawled/Discovered - Currently Not Indexed within Google Search Console's page indexing report may be a sign that Google doesn't think your site or those pages are high-quality enough to index. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Google Ads is also adding the Visit site link in the mobile ad descriptions for search ads. We saw them on the desktop ads with a Visit site button and also on organic results search and now also as a plain text anchor link in the mobile ad descriptions. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Google has posted new eligibility requirements for the merchant loyalty program. As a reminder, Loyalty is an add-on feature in the Merchant Center for merchants with an existing loyalty program who want to showcase its benefits on Google. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

By Gavan Corry | The Marketing Blog Last reviewed: 10 November 2026 The man in the new Old Spice UK advert is Joe Marler, the former England rugby player and star of The Celebrity Traitors. Old Spice unveiled Marler as its new British Old Spice Captain on 16 October 2026, giving one of Britain's mos... (Sze. | marketingblog)

Google Ads has updated its Page feeds section for Performance Max campaigns to help advertisers understand how it works. These changes look like they should make it easier for advertisers to know which pages to feed to the ad algorithms. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Google updated its About brand settings for Search and Performance Max help document to clarify how to manage brands within your brand list. Specifically, Google said, "Google's brand library uses single, global canonical brands rather than individual localized or regional variants." (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)

Were hiring for two roles, and trying two very different experiments Weve spent many hours debating when, where, and how AI should fit into our hiring process. As a small team with a lot of ambition, we are trying to level up, and hiring is ripe for this level of innovation. At the same time, we wan... (Sze. | buffer.com)

Google has lost again in SerpApi's scraping legal fight in court, with the court giving Google 21 days to amend its complaint. But this is a major win for SerpApi and this case seems like it might be coming to a close soon. (Sze. | searchengineroundtable)