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How To Measure PPC Performance When AI Controls The Auction via @sejournal, @brookeosmundson 28 minutes ago www.searchenginejournal.com Measure PPC performance in 2026 with AI-driven auctions, smarter attribution, profit-based metrics, and reporting frameworks built for Google Ads automation and AI search. The post How To Measure PPC Performance When AI Controls The Auction appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Google’s Task-Based Agentic Search Is Disrupting SEO Today, Not Tomorrow via @sejournal, @martinibuster 1 hour ago www.searchenginejournal.com A recent announcement by Google signals the start of a massive change in how the internet and search work. The post Google’s Task-Based Agentic Search Is Disrupting SEO Today, Not Tomorrow appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

How AI Chooses Which Brands To Recommend: From Relational Knowledge To Topical Presence via @sejournal, @Dixon_Jones 1 hour ago www.searchenginejournal.com Research on language models reveals how brands win or lose in AI-generated recommendations based on association strength. The post How AI Chooses Which Brands To Recommend: From Relational Knowledge To Topical Presence appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Why no amount of SEO can fix a broken brand 1 hour ago searchengineland.com Traffic loss isn’t always technical. See how reputation, inventory decisions, and leadership missteps quietly erode rankings and conversions.

New Study Points to Holes In AI Overviews 1 hour ago www.seroundtable.com The NY Times commissioned a study that says AI Overviews have holes in both grounding and accuracy.

Google AdSense Will Experiment With New Ad Technology Partners 1 hour ago www.seroundtable.com Google announced that on August 20, 2026 it will experiment with an updated set of commonly used ad technology partners. If the experiments go well, Google will switch it "on or after June 5, 2026."

Google Search Console Testing AI Contribution Report 1 hour ago www.seroundtable.com It looks like Google is testing a new report within Google Search Console named AI contribution. I have no clue what it looks like but I suspect it is a lot like the Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance reports.

Google Still Processing Status To XML Sitemaps - Nothing To Announce 2 hours ago www.seroundtable.com Google was asked if it is possible to add a new status to the XML sitemap statuses for "still processing." John Mueller from Google responded on Blueshy saying, "I've chatted with the teams involved about this on & off, I've seen that it can be annoying." But he added he has nothing to announce.

Google May Ignore Links From Sites That Spam & Violate Policies 2 hours ago www.seroundtable.com Google's John Mueller reconfirmed that Google Search may simply ignore outbound links from sites that violate its search spam policies. This is not new, Google has been doing this manually and algorithmically for years now but he reiterated this on Bluesky.