AI Search Clouds the Click Forecast
AI Search Is Squeezing the Click Path The strongest weather system today is AI search reducing publisher traffic. Search Engine Journal covered new research this morning showing that Google AI Mode us...
AI Mode pulls clicks into the fog
AI Mode Is the Front Moving In The strongest weather system today is AI Mode leakage from regular Search. Search Engine Roundtable reports that Google is testing links inside AI Overviews that look li...
AI Search Cools, But Links Are Shifting
AI Results Are the Main Weather System The sky is calmer today, but the pressure is still coming from AI search. Search Engine Land’s latest featured SEO story says Google AI Overviews now appear in 3...
Search Console Gets a Visual Search Lens
Visual Search Data Arrives The biggest practical change today is Google adding multimodal search reporting in Search Console. In plain English, site owners can now see when people found them through i...
Spam update winds are picking up
Spam Update Rolling Out Google's September 2026 spam update is the main weather system today. It started September 24 at 9:15 a.m. PDT, applies globally in all languages, and may take up to two weeks...
Spam-policy pressure, Discover aftershocks linger
Google Search Central’s biggest “today” item is a compliance one: Google’s spam policies are now explicitly tougher on expired domain abuse, scaled content abuse, and site reputation abuse (think...
Rankings still gusty after Discover update ends
Google’s SERPs are still shaking today, even though the February Discover core update finished on February 27, 2026. Over the last 24 to 48 hours, multiple tracking tools and site owners are still...