Google Search Central Blog

Search Central Live in Zurich is back!

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Search Central Live is coming to Zurich on December 4, 2026!

Supporting a shared AI training control for websites

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today, we're announcing our plans to support a shared AI training control in robots.txt. This will help websites express their AI training preferences across multiple AI providers in a single step and is based on work from the AIPREF working group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). This builds on our long history of providing website owners with clear controls, including through Google-Extended, the AI training control we've offered since 2023.

New learning paths: curated YouTube playlists for Search fundamentals and Technical SEO

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Over the years, the Search Central YouTube channel has published hundreds of videos across various series, from Search for Beginners and Ask Googlebot to Search Console Training and Search Off the Record. While our series structure works well for deep dives and episodic updates, we know that finding a clear, sequential learning path from scratch can sometimes be challenging.

Announcing web multimodal Search performance reporting in Search Console

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Understanding how users find your content is crucial for any publisher or site owner. As Search evolves to include more visual and multimodal experiences, we want to ensure you have the data you need to analyze your performance.

Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026: Meet the community speakers

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It's happening! We are absolutely pumped that we're just about two weeks away from Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026! From September 30 to October 2, 2026, the Google Search Central team is heading to the gorgeous city of Barcelona, Spain for three days of deep technical exploration, networking, and collaboration.

Search Central Live India 2026: Bengaluru, We're Coming (For Real This Time)

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Remember back in March when we told our Indian community to "sit tight" while we figured out the APAC event calendar? Hopefully, you didn't take that too literally, because sitting tight for six months is probably not great for your back. In any case, you can finally stand up and stretch: Search Central Live is officially returning to India in 2026, specifically to Bengaluru!

Search Central Live is coming to Bogota and Ciudad de México

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Update to the Site Reputation Policy

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 2024, we introduced our site reputation policy to stop a practice where third-party content is published on a trusted website just to exploit that site's good reputation to rank higher in Search. This practice hurts search quality, and creates a bad experience for users.

Platform properties roll out globally, plus a new social and video performance guide

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this month, we announced platform properties for Search Console, allowing you to track how your social and video posts on Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube perform on Google Search, Discover, and Google News. Today, platform properties are globally available to everyone.

See how content from social and video platforms performs on Google Search

sarpongbernard03@gmail.com — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Content creators and publishers use many channels beyond their own websites to reach their audiences. As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives and different content formats, we want to make it easier for site owners and creators—even those without their own website—to get a consolidated view of how all of their content is getting discovered on Search.