Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

In this week's recap, we covered that the Google December 2025 core update was unleashed. Google also said more core updates ...

Google announced that Gemini can now respond to your local questions with local results in a "rich, visual format." Google will visually lay out the local results to include photos, ratings, and ...

Brad Geddes dug into how he felt "AI Max can trump your existing exact and phrase match keywords and then claim credit for ...

Google Maps is updating its share buttons by removing the options to share on X and adding the options to share on Reddit and ...

On Wednesday, Google announced a number of new AI features, which we covered (links below) but one other feature Google spoke about was "AI-powered article overviews." This is an experiment Google ...

Google is now sending email notifications for when Google Business Profiles has removed the restrictions on your reviews and ...