Daily Search Forum Recap: February 19, 2026

Google Lunar New Year Celebration A couple of days ago, Google held a Lunar New Year celebration at the main Google office. It included the Dragon dance, games, food and more events.

Google AI Mode Works In 53 New Languages

Google has added 53 new languages to AI Mode, which means the AI Mode works in just under 100 languages. This was announced by Nick Fox from Google on X yesterday.

Google: We Do Not Have A Bad Title Algorithm Filter Of Sorts

Google's John Mueller responded to a concern about having bad title tags and how that might impact your site in. He said on Bluesky "I don't think our systems have a "we don't like this one guy's ...

Complaints Over Google Reviews Being Removed Again

There has been an uptick in complaints from businesses around Google local reviews disappearing or being removed. We had something similar last October and it was fixed in December and now I am seeing ...

Google Search Console Still Testing Branded Queries & Social Channels Feature

The other day, Google released the Console AI-powered configuration tool and we continued to wonder when the other features, like branded queries and the social channels would go live. Well, Google's ...

Google Ads Updates Certification Process For Cryptocurrency

Google is rolling out an update for Google Ads advertisers to certify for some cryptocurrency and complex speculative financial products. This is "incrementally to all advertisers over a period of ...

Google Is Losing A Knowledge Graph Source - CIA World Factbook

Google is losing one of its main sources of information for its Knowledge Graph, the CIA World Factbook. This was a reference ...

Google AdSense Anchor & Vignette Ads Bug Won't Close Ads

There is a bug impacting a number of Google AdSense publishers where the anchor and vignette ads won't close for users. This ...

Google Search Console AI-Powered Configuration Goes Live

Google has finally fully rolled out the Console AI-powered configuration tool. Google wrote on LinkedIn, "The Search Console's new AI-powered configuration is now available to everyone! Have you ...

Google: Allowing Opting Out Of AI Overviews Is A Huge Engineering Project

A few weeks ago, we reported Google was exploring ways to allow sites to opt out of showing up in Google's AI features, like ...

New Google Ads Calculate Your Conversion Value For New Customers

Google Ads has this new feature that lets advertisers calculate your conversion value for new customers. It says, "Select a ...

Google Ads Now Shows PMax Placement Report Details

Google Ads is now showing in the "When and where ads showed" report, the ability to see PMax, Performance Max, reporting. So you can see the placement, type, network and impressions you are getting ...