Bing's AI Performance report now shows Citation Share, the slice of AI citations your site actually captures. This walkthrough shows how to read it correctly, segment it with Intents and Topics, and turn the gaps into a weekly optimization loop.
Google rolled out DMA-mandated search changes across Europe on September 8, removing integrated travel and shopping features and calling it the biggest quality degradation in the company's history. Here's what changed, why it matters for SEO, and what comes next.
Data from two independent SEO analytics platforms shows that nearly 100% of Google People Also Ask answers are now generated by AI Overviews, up from just 12% in July 2025.
Google confirmed a brief Search Console reporting bug on September 9, 2026 that temporarily showed indexed pages as Crawled - currently not indexed. John Mueller called it a short blip resolved within an hour.
Google is testing paginated follow-up responses in AI Mode with a skip button, changing how conversational AI search presents multi-turn interactions.
Google starts deploying Gemini-integrated reporting dashboards to Google Ads accounts, allowing advertisers to generate visual reports from natural-language prompts.
Google Search Console's Links report has not received fresh data since August 8, 2026 — a full month without updates. Google's status dashboard shows no incidents, leaving SEOs without critical backlink monitoring data.
NeoHorse-1, a 4B/9B agent-native model family from the former head of Huawei's Noah Ark lab, is built around tool calling and error recovery rather than open-ended chat. A decision guide for choosing between small agent models and a frontier API.
DeepSeek opened a preview of V4.1-Flash on September 8, a mid-version with native multimodal support that expires on September 10. What changed, a 30-minute test plan, and what a cheap fast multimodal model signals for AI search.
On September 7 Google put interactive charts, simulations, and generated quizzes inside search results. The answer surface is moving from summary to workbench, and that changes what earns a citation. Three shifts, one 30-day response, and the limits worth respecting.