News
Google Discover on desktop has disappeared, and Google is silent
Search Engine Roundtable reports Discover no longer appears on desktop Google.com, with no explanation from Google. What is verified and what is not.
Google Search Console - reading the data properly
What search console means
Google Search Console is Google's first-party reporting surface for a verified site: impressions, clicks, average position, index coverage and crawl behaviour. Its numbers are sampled and rounded in specific ways, so reading it well means knowing which figures are trustworthy at which aggregation and which are not.
Reference: support.google.com
News
Logging bug undercounted impressions in Search Console's AI report
A logging error cut reported impressions in Search Console's Generative AI report from August 13, 2026, Google says, with no real drop in visibility.
Reports
Every confirmed Google ranking update since December 2025
Eight confirmed updates, with Google's own start dates and rollout durations, and what the pattern says about when to judge a decline in your data.
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Bing reports how often AI answers cite your pages
AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools counts citations in Copilot and AI answers, names the cited URLs, and shows the queries behind them.
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Search Console now reports impressions from Google's AI features
Google added a generative AI performance report to Search Console, showing how often your pages surfaced inside AI Overviews, AI Mode and Discover.
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Search Console now measures your TikTok, X and YouTube posts
Platform properties let a creator see the queries that lead people to their Instagram, TikTok, X or YouTube content on Google Search and Discover.
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Publishers report Google News sitemap data stuck in Search Console
Webmasters say the indexed pages report for their news sitemap has not moved since August 28, even though new articles are indexed and visible.
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Google fixes Search Console favicon bug and a crawl stats data gap
Google fixed a bug replacing site favicons with a default globe icon in search results, and separately restored a two-day gap in Crawl Stats data.
Studies
Ahrefs: AI Overviews cut position-1 CTR by 58%
Ahrefs analyzed 300,000 keywords via Google Search Console and found AI Overviews now cut position-1 organic CTR by 58%, up from 34.5% a year earlier.
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Search Console configures Performance reports from a prompt
AI-powered configuration turns a natural-language request into Search Console filters, comparisons and metric choices, no manual setup required.
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Search Console adds a branded vs non-branded query filter
A new Performance report filter splits branded and non-branded queries using an AI-assisted classifier, not manual keyword rules.