Google will host Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 in Barcelona, Sept. 30–Oct. 2. The free, application‑only program is a three‑day technical curriculum covering crawling, indexing and ranking, with limited seats and speaker slots.
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Google Search Console now supports platform properties for Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube globally and published a guide explaining how to analyze search-driven performance for social and video content.
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Google will treat ‘back button hijacking’ as an explicit spam violation and will begin enforcement on June 15, 2026. Sites that interfere with browser back navigation risk manual spam actions or automated demotions; publishers should audit both first- and third-party code now.
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Google has shortlisted six European cities for Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 and is asking the SEO community to weigh in on location, timing and lightning-talk proposals via an interest form due July 1.
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Google added Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console on June 3, 2026. The reports show impressions, pages, country and device breakdowns for content appearing in AI features on Search and Discover; rollout begins with a subset of sites.
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Google published a Search Central guide explaining how to prepare site content — including local, shopping, image and video assets — for Google’s generative AI features while underscoring that SEO fundamentals still matter.
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