Google Reviews Bug: You Have No Reviews Yet

A new day and a new Google Business Profiles review bug. It seems a ton of business owners are seeing a message that reads "You have no reviews yet" when clicking on the option to read reviews of their Google Business Profile listing.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: July 9, 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 said it broke its all time usage record on Tuesday during the World Cup. Google is rolling out the Generative AI controls in Search Console beyond UK sites…

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The Internet Marketing Driver

Meta breaks ground on first data center in Canada

The $10 billion project in Alberta will be the company’s 33rd facility worldwide.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

ChatGPT Ads new overview tab, suggested ad drafts, new ad formats and more

OpenAI also said ChatGPT Ads are live in Japan and South Korea.

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Search Engine Land

Why marketing mix modeling is still hard to get right

Open-source tools have made MMM more accessible, but reliable results still depend on clean data, thoughtful modeling, and human expertise.

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Search Engine Land

7 ways AI can turn Google Search Console data into action

Find hidden patterns, classify search intent, spot trends, and prioritize SEO opportunities without digging through thousands of queries.

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Search Engine Land

Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1

The new multimodal reasoning model will offer a paid tier for developers as the company pursues monetization avenues for its artificial intelligence projects.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta adds new metrics to track business chatbot performance

Brands can now better assess how well their custom artificial intelligence Business Agents are navigating customer queries and handling responses.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Winning the AI decision layer: From AI discovery to agentic commerce

AI engines now decide which brands to recommend, trust, and transact with. Learn the six steps to become AI’s preferred choice.

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Search Engine Land

Ask YouTube AI search experience expands to U.S. desktop users

Signed-in U.S. viewers can now ask natural-language questions and get AI responses with videos, Shorts, and follow-up prompts.

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Search Engine Land

GPT-5.6 Sol vs. Claude Fable: Why OpenAI’s new model crushes my benchmark

Watch now | 🎙️GPT 5.6-Sol beats Fable on prototypes, PRDs, and browser use in my 5-category How I AI benchmark, and here’s exactly where each model earns its spot.

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Google Search Generative AI Controls Rolling Out Beyond UK Sites (Not Everyone Yet…)

Google seems to be rolling out the new Generative AI controls in Google Search Console to sites outside the United Kingdom. It initially launched a month ago only for .co.uk based sites but now we are seeing it roll out for some (not all) sites based in the US and other countries.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained: How AI Decides Which Pages to Search & Cite

How retrieval augmented generation works—and how to optimize your content so AI search engines like ChatGPT actually retrieve and cite it.

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SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Stop saying ‘best practice’ and start bringing proof

SEO stops sounding like black magic when you can point to the exact Google doc that backs it up. Here’s how to use it to earn buy-in.

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Search Engine Land

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

Listen now | Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on the new product team structure in 2026, the rise of the “product staff” role, and the hiring traits that matter most today

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Lenny’s Newsletter

Google drops Next from Merchant Center Next

Google Merchant Center Next is now know as just Google Merchant Center.

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Search Engine Land

Google Merchant Center Next Is Renamed Merchant Center

Google has removed "Next" from Google Merchant Center Next and it is now to be known as just Google Merchant Center. Google announced this over here saying, "The platform you use today will simply be referred to as Google Merchant Center."

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google expands AI ad disclosures across Search, YouTube, Discover

Google will show whether ad creative was created or edited with AI. The AI-made ad disclosures are rolling out worldwide.

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Search Engine Land

Human vs. machine: What happens when groas runs your Google Ads

One version of this story is AI replacing your entire PPC team. The truer one: Humans direct, the machines execute, and then the numbers move.

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Search Engine Land

Google Ads Search Campaigns For Travel Expands To Beta For Things To Do & Events

Google announced it has expanded Search campaigns for Travel to an open beta for the Things to Do and Events verticals. This brings you Search and AI Max features for those types of campaigns.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Testing Favicons In Sponsored Results Sitelinks

Google is testing placing favicons in the sitelinks portion of the sponsored results from Google Ads. Generally, we only see the favicon in the main sponsored or organic listing, but here Google is testing showing favicons for all the links in the sponsored results grouping, including all the sitelinks.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Ads Formats That Do Not Allow Alcohol Ads

Google Ads updated its alcohol policy to provide more examples of ad formats that don’t allow alcohol ads. The list previously only had reservation display ads and Google TV masthead ads, and it was updated app install image ads, app install video ads, consumer ratings annotations, Discovery ads, dynamic search ads and Gmail ads.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google adds AI creation disclosure for ads

When brands use generative artificial intelligence tools in their promotions, Google’s SynthID will automatically detect and label the content.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Meta CTO confirms facial recognition in AI glasses

Andrew Bosworth told journalist Nicholas Thompson that the company is exploring multiple use cases for Face ID, including as a tool for the visually impaired.

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Social Media Today – Latest News