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Google is notifying sites with site reputation abuse manual actions that those actions will no longer affect search results in the European Economic Area, a change that took effect August 30, 2026.

Google has indexed over 6 million AI-generated Facebook Answers pages, and they are appearing and ranking in Google Search results.

Google has clarified how server-side redirects influence ranking signals and canonicalization.

AI Mode now links home service searches to booking and quote pages, and the article covers how businesses reach those pages and what partners say about lead fees.

Google Ads now requires advertisers to disclose AI use in their ads in California, South Korea, and Vietnam, in addition to the European Union, India, and New York.

Google is showing four ads stacked beneath some AI SEO answers in AI Mode, with ads from HubSpot, Yext, Siteimprove and eintelligenceweb observed, but Google has not said how widely the placement runs or whether it will continue.

New holiday data finds ads inside Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and ChatGPT concentrate in apparel and electronics across five shopping categories, and shows which prompts ChatGPT ads ran on.

Google has added home services booking to AI Mode, with booking buttons on home services listings via partners including Angi, Thumbtack, Housecall, and GetJobber, and ServiceTitan planned.

Google's Gary Illyes said Google Search can temporarily keep important URLs that return a 4xx status code in the index rather than removing them immediately.

Some users are now seeing LinkedIn added to Google Search Profiles, which already supports YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X, Facebook and websites.

OpenAI says ChatGPT handles a fifth of Google's search-like volume, Taboola cited AI summaries in a 6.9% revenue decline, and Anthropic signed its first news licence.

Shopify and WooCommerce merchants can accept terms that send their store catalogs to Microsoft Merchant Center, making their products appear in Copilot and Bing.

Amazon's new Shop Direct portal lets eligible stores list in its search at no cost, with merchants joining through several feed partners or Amazon's API.

ChatGPT's ad business is growing faster than evidence that its ads drive conversions, according to Digiday's analysis of roughly six thousand brands.

SERP data providers say Google limits goto redirect links per results page, so some rank tracking data may store Google redirect URLs instead of actual page URLs.

Bot protection blocked Blend's AI shopping agent at 29 of 200 retailers, with large retailers refusing it far more often than emerging ones.

An EU court adviser in a Google case has backed AI training on three conditions: honouring robots.txt opt-outs, skipping pirate sites, and proving anti-memorisation steps.

Google is bringing its UCP-powered direct checkout to AI Mode and the Gemini app for Canadian shoppers, with a Merchant Center integration planned for next year.

The UK Information Commissioner's Office has published 30 questions for AI agent builders, with responses due before November 20, covering session isolation, tamper-evident logs and six-part agent IDs.