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Google Business Profile Verification Flow Caution

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

02/25/26

Some time ago, Google updated the flow for the Google Business Profile verification. And the issue is, if you fill it out wrong, it can have consequences for that Google business listing…

Google AI Mode See More Button For Shopping Results

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

02/25/26

Google is showing a “See more” button in some of the AI Mode results. This has been happening for almost the past month on desktop and probably mobile. It seems to come…

Anthropic Updates Its Crawler Documentation: ClaudeBot, Claude-User & Claude-SearchBot

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

02/25/26

Anthropic updates its crawler documentation explaining what its crawlers do, and what blocking them will result in. Anthropic has three primary bots and they include ClaudeBot, Claude-User and Claude-SearchBot.

SEO Daily News Recaps for Tuesday, February 24, 2026

02/25/26

SEO Daily News Recap for Tuesday, February 24, 2026 Organic SEO & Search News Meta signs long-term supply deal with AMD for AI hardware – The partnership builds on the companies’ existing…

Google AI Shopping Pushing More Products

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

02/25/26

Google’s AI Shopping tab is now pushing shoppers and searchers to find more products. The prompt responses to your queries can display “Show more products” and other links to get you to…

Google Search Had A Brief Serving Issue This Morning

Source: Search Engine Roundtable

By: barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)

02/25/26

Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented the issue at around 1:30 am ET on Wednesday, February 25th and said it was resolved a…

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