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Google Pixel October 2026 Update Fixes Critical Security Flaws: Supported Devices Move to the October 5 Patch
Google has released the October 2026 security update for supported Pixel devices, moving them to the October 5, 2026 security patch level and fixing several Pixel-specific vulnerab...
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Google’s New Goto Redirects Obscure Destination URLs: Another Data-Collection Challenge for SEO Tools
Google has introduced another technical complication for companies that collect large-scale search-result data. SISTRIX says Google is now using internal Goto URLs for some clicks,...
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Google Reveals Its Internal SEO Timelines: Indexing Can Take 90 Minutes—but Quality Can Delay It Forever
Google has shared unusually specific internal timing data for some of the most common crawling, indexing and Search recovery processes. During Search Central Live Deep Dive in Barc...
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New Wave of Volatility Hits During Google's September 2026 Spam Update
A new wave of Google Search volatility is appearing while the September 2026 Spam Update is still officially active. Multiple independent tracking systems showed another accelerati...
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Google Ads Tests Advertiser Names Inside Call Assets
Google Ads is testing a more branded presentation for call assets in sponsored search results. In the observed test, the click-to-call element displays the advertiser's name alongs...
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Google Calls Fake Authors and Artificial Credentials Deceptive
Google has sharpened its guidance around authorship and trust signals, explicitly warning against invented author identities, false credentials and AI-generated portraits when they...
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Google Search Console Adds Multi-Country Filters to Performance Reports
Google Search Console has introduced multi-country filtering in the Performance report, giving site owners and SEO teams a native way to analyze several markets together. Announced...
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Google Search Console Adds Multi-Country Filters to Performance Reports
Google Search Console is making international performance analysis easier with a new multi-country filtering capability in its Performance report. Announced on October 6, 2026, the...
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Search Console Flags AI Control Overrides: Child Properties Need Their Own Audit
Google’s Search Console documentation now explicitly describes a notification for owners of a top-level domain property when a child property overrides its parent’s Search generati...
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Google Clarifies Business Profile Promotions: Listings and Posts Need Separate Rules
Google’s current Business Profile policies draw a clear distinction between a business listing and the posts a merchant publishes. Time-limited campaigns belong in a different edit...
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Google Expands VideoObject Markup: Creators and Engagement Get Clearer Documentation
Google has expanded its documented support for video creator information and clarified how publishers can describe audience interactions in VideoObject structured data. The change....
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