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• Bing Webmaster · SEO and AI · 2026-10-13 Introducing Topics Portfolio (Beta) in AI Performance

Official publication

2026-10-13

First detected

2026-10-27

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Measurement and Search Console

Status

Beta or preview

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Introducing Topics Portfolio (Beta) in AI Performance

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• Google Search · service status · 2026-10-08 RESOLVED: September 2026 spam update

Official publication

2026-10-08

First detected

2026-10-27

Last seen in the source

2026-11-10

Topic

Search results and policies

Status

Update completed

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Incident began at 2026-09-24 09:15 and ended at 2026-10-08 01:00 (all times are US/Pacific). The rollout was complete as…

RESOLVED: September 2026 spam update

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• Google Crawling · documentation · 2026-10-06 Added Retry-After HTTP header details to the reduce crawl rate documentation

Official publication

2026-10-06

First detected

2026-11-05

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Crawling and indexing

Status

Documentation updated

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What: Restructured the emergency crawl rate reduction section and added information and examples…

Added Retry-After HTTP header details to the reduce crawl rate documentation

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• Google Search Central Blog · 2026-09-24 Announcing web multimodal Search performance reporting in Search Console

Official publication

2026-09-24

First detected

2026-11-05

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Measurement and Search Console

Status

Published

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Understanding how users find your content is crucial for any publisher or site owner. As Search…

Announcing web multimodal Search performance reporting in Search Console

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• Google Search Central · documentation · 2026-09-24 Added creator property and updated interactionStatistic in VideoObject structured data

Official publication

2026-09-24

First detected

2026-10-27

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Structured data

Status

Documentation updated

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What: Added the creator property (noting support for author) and updated interactionStatistic to…

Added creator property and updated interactionStatistic in VideoObject structured data

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• Baidu · search resource platform · 2026-09-15 【功能上线】AI流量分析功能上线公告

Official publication

2026-09-15

First detected

2026-11-05

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Measurement and Search Console

Status

Published

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【功能上线】AI流量分析功能上线公告

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• Google Search Console · AI control · 2026-08-31 Search generative AI control

Official publication

2026-08-31

First detected

2026-11-05

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

AI search and GEO

Status

Documentation updated

Added during the historical import.

Search generative AI control

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• Google Search Central Blog · 2026-08-28 Update to the Site Reputation Policy
• Google Search Central · documentation · 2026-08-28 Updated the site reputation policy

Official publication

2026-08-28

First detected

2026-11-05

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Search results and policies

Status

Published

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In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content is published on a…

Update to the Site Reputation Policy

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Updated the site reputation policy

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• Google Search Central · documentation · 2026-07-24 Added a new review snippet guideline

Official publication

2026-07-24

First detected

2026-10-27

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Structured data

Status

Documentation updated

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What: Added a new guideline to the review snippet documentation about fake and undisclosed incentivized reviews.…

Added a new review snippet guideline

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• Google Crawling · documentation · 2026-07-16 Updating the NotebookLM user agent

Official publication

2026-07-16

First detected

2026-11-05

Last seen in the source

2026-11-12

Topic

Crawling and indexing

Status

Documentation updated

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What: Updated the NotebookLM user agent to be Google-GeminiNotebook. If you hardcoded the old value in your code,…

Updating the NotebookLM user agent

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