Search Console Now Reports Multimodal Search: What Image-Based Queries Reveal
Google added a multimodal search type to Search Console on September 24, 2026. Here is what it covers, what it does not, and a 30-minute audit to run on your own data.
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Google added a multimodal search type to Search Console on September 24, 2026. Here is what it covers, what it does not, and a 30-minute audit to run on your own data.
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