Google AI Overviews CTR shows early signs of recovery: Study

Organic click-through rate on Google searches with AI Overviews is rising, breaking a year-long slide. Could click loss be leveling off?

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Search Engine Land

Daily Search Forum Recap: April 24, 2026

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 now won’t use spam reports with personal identifiable information. Google’s head of search, Liz Reid was interviewed again. Google to fix an AI Mode bug that changes title links. Google is testing audio overviews in the wild. Google Business Profile photos are now sorted in order of recent. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap…

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Google Testing Audio Overviews In The Wild

About a year ago, Google announced you can opt in, within Search Labs, to see Audio Overviews within the Google Search results. But now, I saw two different people say they saw it without opting into the experiment. So Google may be testing this in the wild.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Now Won’t Use Spam Reports With Personally Identifying Information

A couple of weeks ago, Google stunned many by saying that they updated their spam report to pass along all information to the site that you enter in the spam report. There was a lot of backlash to that and Google reverted, now saying if there is personally identifying information, it won’t process the spam report at all.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google To Fix AI Mode Bug Where It Changes Title Links & Citations

Google is working to fix a bug in AI Mode where it is changing the title links and citations. This bug was spotted by Lily Ray who wrote on X, "Google is changing title links / citations in AI Mode – just the name of the person, with a link to the place they were mentioned."

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google spam reports with personally identifying information won’t be used and processed

This is a change from what Google announced only a week ago.

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Search Engine Land

Why GEO is a reputation problem

Most GEO tactics don’t move the needle. Learn how brand positioning, category alignment, and third-party signals shape AI visibility.

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Search Engine Land

Automate the busywork: 8 SEO tasks you shouldn’t do manually

Identify repeatable SEO tasks and build simple automation workflows so you can focus on strategy, QA, and decision-making.

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Search Engine Land

How to structure AI-driven SEO: 3 frameworks that drive execution

AI can accelerate results or amplify chaos. Learn how to coordinate teams, clarify ownership, and prioritize initiatives that compound.

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Search Engine Land

Liz Reid Of Google Interviewed By Bloomberg

Here is another interview from Google’s head of search, Liz Reid. This one was done on the Odd Lots Bloomberg podcast and is titled "Google’s Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI."

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Search Engine Roundtable

The bureaucracy tax: How disruptors are winning AI search visibility

Slow approval cycles and rigid workflows are costing enterprises AI visibility. Faster execution and structured data shift the balance.

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Search Engine Land

Office Hours: B2B Storytelling: How to Make Your Brand Their Favorite – SparkToro

“What’s the best Disney movie of all time?” Before you answer — you’re already proving the point. In this episode of SparkToro Office Hours from a few

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Google Ads Demand Gen campaigns hit by review delays

Advertisers are reporting week long delays for Demand Gen ads stuck in review, a known issue Google says it is actively working to resolve.

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Search Engine Land

Video: Heated Google Ranking Volatility, Commodity Content, Getting SEO Right, Search Ads & More

This week, we covered new heated Google search ranking volatility. Google’s Danny Sullivan spoke about commodity versus non-commodity content. Google now wont use spam reports with personality identifiable…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profiles Now Sorts Photos By Most Recent

Google Business Profiles lets you upload photos of your business to your Business Profile. Those photos can be viewed on Google Search and Google Maps. And now, these photos are reportedly sorted by most recently uploaded.

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Search Engine Roundtable