Summary
- Generative AI performance reports
- Dedicated Search and Discover views
- Staged rollout; request feedback
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Latest Release Posts
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- New guide for generative-AI search optimization
- Includes local, shopping, image/video, and AI agents
- SEO best practices still foundational
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- Back button hijacking now an explicit spam violation
- Enforcement begins 2026-06-15 (two-month notice)
- Sites risk manual actions or automated demotions
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- May 15, 2026 in Shanghai
- Sessions in Simplified Chinese (Mandarin)
- Register by April 27, 2026
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- IP range JSON moved to /crawling/ipranges/
- Old /search/apis/ipranges/ remains temporarily
- Old endpoints will be redirected within 6 months
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- Googlebot is a centralized crawler platform
- HTML fetch capped at 2MB (PDFs 64MB)
- WRS only renders bytes actually fetched
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- Sydney SCL on May 22, 2026 — register now
- Lightning talks: 7 minutes; proposals due Apr 19, 2026
- Shanghai (Mandarin) ~May 15; India events planned Q4 2026
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- Toronto event on April 21, 2026
- Apply by April 14; invites by April 16
- Crawling, indexing, AI, and structured data sessions
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- More locally relevant content in Discover
- Reduced sensational clickbait
- Greater weight on topic-level expertise
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- In-person events: São Paulo (Feb 24) and Buenos Aires (Feb 26)
- Register by Feb 5; confirmations sent Feb 10 (email required)
- Sessions with Search engineers on Search, AI, Console, Trends, News; live translations
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- Deep Dive format launched with high engagement
- AI, localization, and JavaScript SEO dominated discussions
- Community-led talks and poster sessions delivered practical patterns
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- Weekly and monthly aggregation added
- Granularity selector in Performance report
- Export file structure updated
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- Search Console Insights now shows social channel performance
- Includes clicks/impressions, queries, audience location, and traffic sources
- Limited experiment: only auto-identified channels are shown
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- Natural-language configuration for Performance reports
- Auto-applies filters, comparisons, and metrics
- Limited rollout; verify suggested filters