Google Adds Social Reporting; Mueller Warns Against Markdown
Google is updating its Search Console to include social post reporting and is introducing AI-generated images within AI Overviews. Additionally, Google Search Advocate John Mueller has advised against creating separate markdown pages specifically for AI crawlers.
Why it matters
These changes impact how SEO professionals and content creators optimize their sites for Google's evolving search and AI-driven interface.
Google rolls out Search Console reports for social posts, updates product markup guidance, and warns against building separate markdown pages for AI.
SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern 6 hours ago ⋅ 6 min read SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer at Search Engine Journal Bio Follow 2.8K READS Welcome to the week's Pulse: image generation lands in AI Overviews, Mueller weighs in on a plan to hide a homepage link, and Google puts an outside limit on how long a content-based canonical fix takes.
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Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rebuilding the Google Images homepage, both timed to the service's 25th anniversary.
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