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    Search Engine Roundtable

  • Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2026
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 2:00 pm
  • Search News Buzz Video Recap: Wild Google Ranking Volatility, Reddit Special Preference, Big Google Executive Shakeup & More Search News
    This week, we covered two unconfirmed Google search ranking updates, one mid-week and one over the weekend - some were pretty big. Google said Reddit gets no special preference in its search rankings or AI results...... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 12:01 pm
  • New Google Ads Report On New Customers Acquired
    Google Ads is rolling out a new customer acquisition option named "Report on new customers acquired." This lets you "Drive purchases from new and existing customers without changing bidding," according to Google.... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 11:51 am
  • ChatGPT Ads Updates: oCPC, Dynamic URLs, Muti-Product Carousel & More
    Earlier this week, OpenAI sent an email to advertisers about new ChatGPT Ads Manager product updates. These updates include testing a new multi-product carousel format for product feed campaigns, plus a number of updates to the ad manager itself.... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 11:41 am
  • On Sep 1 Google Ads To Migrate ACA & Campaign-Level Broad Match To AI Max
    Google Ads will begin migrating or "upgrading" Automatically created assets and campaign-level broad match setting to AI Max starting on September 1, 2026. We knew this was coming and now the process is soon going to begin.... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 11:31 am
  • Google Crawlers Send HTTP Requests: HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
    Gary Illyes from Google said that Google's crawlers do not only send HTTP requests such as GET and POST but also for HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE. He said the latter make up for less than 1.5% of the total number of requests all Google's crawlers send. Google sends... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 11:21 am
  • Google Ads Phone Conversions Report Gets View Call Report Link
    Google Ads added a "View call report" link in the Phone Call conversions leads report. This makes it easier to jump to the details of what makes up the metrics of that report and gives you access to that data in a new tab.... Read more »
    Source: Search Engine Roundtable | Published: August 7, 2026 - 11:11 am
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    SEO Book

  • AI Shopping Agents
    The main benefit of AI in commerce is quickly removing friction by broadening out the scope of search and showing alternate solutions. There is a trade off in any broadening. New ideas and solutions can be valuable, but broaden things too much and create a sea of noise. Distribution platforms... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: August 5, 2026 - 1:43 pm
  • What Types of Publishing Business Models Will Remain Profitable?
    I thought the prior Google Gemini answer was decent, so tried my luck with a bit harder of a question: Historically successful online publishing enterprises like IAC (rebranded as People Inc) have struggled in recent years as the big web players like Google, Facebook, and Amazon ate most of the... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: July 19, 2026 - 11:19 pm
  • Where SEO is Headed According to Google Gemini
    As a thought experiment, I uploaded all the ancient copies of the Google remote rater guidelines I could find to Google's Notebook ML, then asked it a series of SEO-related questions. The future-related query was: given the trends discussed in these documents, what are the next major shifts that are... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: July 19, 2026 - 5:16 am
  • Racketeering Criminal Fraud Stella Huh Bribes Judges, False Witenesses and Cops
    Have you ever got arrested because a sadistic & malevolent psychopath tied in with organized crime has stolen millions from your family, hacked your wife's computers, was torturing your spouse, claimed to be your secret sidepiece whore lover, and was claiming that you personally were the culprit for all the... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: July 9, 2026 - 2:25 pm
  • How CCP-Linked Computer Hacker Stella Huh Delivers Scams Over Hacked Google Gemini AI
    It is nice to see Google is moving on combatting scams delivered by AI. Many people might catch a stray message here or there which causes some damages, through the combination of requiring a quick response and mimicking official government websites with things like (fake) unpaid parking tickets, or other... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: June 12, 2026 - 6:06 pm
  • Sadistic & Malevolent Psychopath Stella Huh Abuses Kids
    Last year I found out that in January 2023 Stella Huh had pushed my daughter so hard that my daughter was hiding in the closet when my wife Giovanna returned from her jog to the San Francisco Four Seasons hotel. Our daughter was so scared that she did not tell... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: June 5, 2026 - 1:26 pm
  • A Friendly Facebook Comment for Criminal Frauds Stella Huh & Christopher Angus
    On October 18, 2022 a federal court established the Barton Receivership. On December 17, 2022 I noticed Christopher Angus in my Facebook feed posting a picture comparing the differences between literal and actual meanings of colloquial English phrases. From that post I realized Christopher Angus had completed his UK prison... Read more »
    Source: SEO Book | Published: June 4, 2026 - 6:29 am