Google has switched off the Content API for Shopping, the interface that thousands of retailers relied on to push product data into Merchant Center, and requests that were not moved to the newer Merchant API are now failing. The turndown, dated August 18 ... See more
Google’s Preferred Sources programme has passed 600,000 unique publishers as of August 21, 2026, tripling from 200,000 in May, and the company has rolled out a new button embed that returns readers to the exact page they were reading rather than routing t... See more
Google began rolling out its August 2026 spam update at 09:27 US Pacific time on 18 August, the company confirmed on its Search Status Dashboard, opening the third global spam crackdown of the year barely eight weeks after the June edition. The rollout wa... See more
Google updated its canonicalization troubleshooting documentation on July 10, 2026, adding a section that warns site owners a page can remain grouped with duplicates for up to two weeks after the underlying content is fixed. The clarification was first sp... See more
Google added a new type of Search Console property on Tuesday, July 7, letting creators and brands verify their Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts and see how those posts surface in Google Search and Discover. It is the first time the tool has repo... See more
