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Google Hiring A Product Manager For Content Automation

Google has posted a job listing for a Product Manager for Content Automation, I kid you not. The job posting was posted about two weeks ago and is available for two Google locations, Boulder, CO, USA and Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 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 Ads is removing the ability to manually set your language targeting next month…

Google Ads Language Targeting Update Coming In September

Google Ads will roll out a change to language targeting that will remove the ability to manually adjust the language setting. This change is happening next month, in September 2026. Google said its ad systems already match languages automatically and enhanced AI prioritization will automatically select the most relevant ad language when there are eligible […]

Google AI Overviews With AI-Generated Images In The Wild

A month ago, we reported that Google said it would be rolling out AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search. Well, it seems Google is starting to roll out those AI-generated images in AI Overviews this week.

Google Merchant Center For Agencies Can Link Up To 1,000 Accounts

Google updated a help document within the Google Merchant Center help area to document that Google Merchant Center for Agencies can now link to up to 1,000 Merchant Center accounts. Previously, that number was not there, and now we know – up to 1,000 accounts can be linked to a single agency account.

Googlebot Say They Are Coming From California But Might Not

As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, California. But the truth is, that is where they self-declare the bots are coming from. Google has data centers all over the world, and even though Google may be declaring the crawler is coming from a specific location, it […]

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google AI Home Page Test, AI Local Pack Slop, Google Poaching Advertisers & Meta Building A Search Engine

This week, we of course had more Google search ranking volatility, this time on the 12th. Google is testing new AI buttons on its home page…

Black Hat USA 2026: Will vulnerability discovery eventually decline in the AI era?

And will today’s surge in AI-driven vulnerability discovery eventually make tomorrow’s software safer?

Black Hat USA 2026: What the Hugging Face hack tells us about human responsibility

The incident involving OpenAI models shows that autonomous hacks make human oversight more important, not less

Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2026

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Misconfiguring Cloudflare Can Hurt Your SEO Badly

This is just a random tip, make sure not to misconfigure Cloudflare, your content delivery network and/or your hosting server. I see way too many cases of this popping up and causing such a pain for SEOs to fix. All of a sudden, you might notice your rankings drop off a cliff on Google Search […]

Spammy Google Selected Canonical In Search Console

When you use the Google Search Console URL inspection tool, Google will show you what it calls the “Google-selected canonical.” Sometimes that URL will look off, weird and even scary, because sometimes it might be a URL for a spammy site.

Google Search Ranking Volatility Spikes On August 12-13

We saw a spike in volatility yesterday amongst the Google Search results rankings. There was a spike in ranking movement outside the day-to-day norm that seemed to start yesterday and maybe into today. The chatter is somewhat cool, but the tools showed a spike in the Google rank volatility.

Google Lowers Subscriber Requirements For Search Profiles

Google has dropped the minimum number of followers needed to be approved for a Search Profile on Google. Previously, it was 100,000 subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, X and Tiktok. Now it is 35,000 subscribers across YouTube, Instagram, and X but still 100,000 on TikTok.

OpenAI Makes The ChatGPT Sources Less Visible

OpenAI is testing or rolling out a change to how you can click to see the sources from the ChatGPT responses. It used to be a button named “Sources” in the footer of the response, but now sometimes it is showing up within the three-dot “More actions” menu, requiring you to click more to find […]