Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, AI Mode Taking Over Search, Search Console AI Configurator & 22 Year Anniversary
This week, we, of course, covered the ongoing Google Search ranking volatility. Google is now blending AI Mode directly into AI Overviews. Google’s home page search bar added a new upload feature to take you into AI Mode…
Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
How to Build Your 2026 Plan (Retire with Rentals Faster)
By the time you finish this episode, you’ll have your exact plan for financial freedom through real estate, starting in 2026. See if you can answer these questions right now: […]
Inheriting Tenants: Instant Cash Flow or Huge Headache? (Rookie Reply)
Forming a real estate investing partnership could help you scale your real estate portfolio faster, but if you’re not careful, you could just as easily find yourself in hot water. […]
Google Ads Learn More Button At Top Right
Google Ads may be testing placing an ad extension button at the top right of the sponsored result on the desktop interface. This button, in this example, shows the text “Learn more.”
Google Merchant Center New Regional Member Pricing (Beta)
Google Merchant Center is now beta testing regional member pricing, where you can offer different member prices based on the shopper’s regions. This will essentially override the member price in the regional inventory feed.
Google Search Console Average Impression Increased For Many
If you look at some of the profiles/sites in your Google Search Console performance reports, you may notice a significant increase in the average position being reported. This happened when Google removed the num=100 parameter and is likely due to scrapers not messing up your data.
Google Search Console Performance Report Tests AI Powered Configurator
Google is testing a new AI-powered configuration tool, as it calls it, to help you build instant reports based on your natural language questions. So basically Ads and Analytics Advisor but for Search Console, plus this just builds reports and doesn’t do actions – yet.
Google API Doc Hints Service Areas Not A Local Ranking Factor
Over the years, we have written that service areas are not used as a local ranking factor by Google Search. Well, the API leak document also implies this to be true.
Phishing, privileges and passwords: Why identity is critical to improving cybersecurity posture
Identity is effectively the new network boundary. It must be protected at all costs.
Ads Might Finally Be Coming to ChatGPT
Love it or hate it, there’s one thing that ChatGPT avoids that many other tech products include right now: ads. Everything from websites, streaming services, and games ship with ads—either as a subsidized choice, or as a requirement. Chatbots like ChatGPT, however, have so far managed without this ad model, which is somewhat refreshing. The […]
The AirPods 4 (With ANC) Are Just $99 Right Now
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The latest AirPods 4 dropped to a record low price during Black Friday last week, and after restocking, they’re back on Amazon (and even slightly cheaper). The ANC AirPods 4 are $99 (originally $179.99) […]
What Happened to the iPhone 17 Pro’s Portrait Night Mode?
New products tend to add features, not take them away. That isn’t always the case with Apple, however. The company has a long history of removing functions from one generation of devices to the next, whether that’s removing the disc drive from its MacBooks back in 2012, or taking away the iPhone’s Home button in […]
Three Changes Coming to Your Apple Watch With watchOS 26.2
Yesterday, Apple unveiled release candidates (RCs) for its slate of upcoming updates. An RC, as the name implies, is the version of a software update Apple intends to release to the general public. Before it rolls out, though, Apple sends the update out to beta testers to see if there are any bugs or glitches […]
Google Is Testing AI-Generated Headlines, and It’s Not Going Well
Take a look at the top of this article. See that headline? If it looks different than what you clicked on to get to this page, congratulations: Google might have chosen you to participate in its latest AI experiment: rewriting news headlines for some users in Google Discover. Evidence of the new effort was first […]
