A well-rounded view on search engines and search engine marketing from five segments of the Web population represented by senior members of the major SEO/SEM forums on the Internet.https://www.seroundtable.comen-usBarry SchwartzFri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400en-usnoSearch Engine Roundtablesearch,search,engines,google,yahoo,ask,com,microsoft,live,com,adcenter,adwords,adsense,ypn,barry,schwartz,search,engine,roundtableThe Pulse with Barry Schwartz and co-hosts Ben Pfeiffer and Chris Boggs covers search topics that receive the most buzz from within the search community. Each Tuesday, The Pulse will recap those important search topics in a roundtable style format, allowing the hosts to debate and argue some of the latest trends and stories in the search industry.Search Pulse from the Search Engine RoundtableBarry Schwartzbarry@rustybrick.comBarry Schwartzhttps://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-24-2026-41213.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-24-2026-41213.htmlHere is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google now won't use spam reports with personal identifiable information. Google's head of search...Search Forum Recapbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/video-04-24-2026-41209.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 08:01:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/video-04-24-2026-41209.htmlThis week, we covered new heated Google search ranking volatility. Google's Danny Sullivan spoke about commodity versus non-commodity content. Google now wont use spam reports with personality identifiable...Search Video Recapsbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/liz-reid-of-google-interviewed-by-bloomberg-41210.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 07:51:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/liz-reid-of-google-interviewed-by-bloomberg-41210.htmlHere is another interview from Google's head of search, Liz Reid. This one was done on the Odd Lots Bloomberg podcast and is titled "Google's Liz Reid on Who Will Own Search in a World of AI."Googlebarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-fix-ai-mode-citations-bug-41211.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 07:41:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-fix-ai-mode-citations-bug-41211.htmlGoogle is working to fix a bug in AI Mode where it is changing the title links and citations. This bug was spotted by Lily Ray who wrote on X, "Google is changing title links / citations in AI Mode - just the name of the person, with a link to the place they were mentioned."Googlebarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-spam-reports-personally-identifying-information-41212.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 07:31:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-spam-reports-personally-identifying-information-41212.htmlA couple of weeks ago, Google stunned many by saying that they updated their spam report to pass along all information to the site that you enter in the spam report. There was a lot of backlash to that and Google reverted, now saying if there is personally identifying information, it won't process the spam report at all.Google Search Engine Optimizationbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-testing-audio-overviews-wild-41207.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 07:21:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-testing-audio-overviews-wild-41207.htmlAbout a year ago, Google announced you can opt in, within Search Labs, to see Audio Overviews within the Google Search results. But now, I saw two different people say they saw it without opting into the experiment. So Google may be testing this in the wild.Googlebarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-photos-most-recent-41198.htmlFri, 24 Apr 2026 07:11:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-photos-most-recent-41198.htmlGoogle Business Profiles lets you upload photos of your business to your Business Profile. Those photos can be viewed on Google Search and Google Maps. And now, these photos are reportedly sorted by most recently uploaded.Google Mapsbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-23-2026-41206.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-23-2026-41206.htmlHere is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. We are seeing Google volatility get heated again...Search Forum Recapbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-commodity-content-41200.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:51:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-commodity-content-41200.htmlDanny Sullivan from Google spoke at the Google Search Central event in Toronto a couple of days ago and a few of his slides spoke about it is important to produce "unique, authentic and non-commodity content." And then Sullivan dug into what commodity content is.Google Search Engine Optimizationbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-review-replies-moderated-41203.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:41:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-review-replies-moderated-41203.htmlGoogle may now hold your review replies for approval before showing them in Google Maps or Google Search. Previously, those replies were immediately shown but that may have changed.Google Mapsbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-volatility-heating-up-41205.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:34:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-volatility-heating-up-41205.htmlI know it has been a while since I covered the Google Search ranking volatility and algorithm twitches but I am now seeing signs of the volatility heating up. These signs are mostly coming from the tools; the community seems busier with other things.Google Updatesbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-chrome-tab-deep-search-images-41201.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:31:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-chrome-tab-deep-search-images-41201.htmlGoogle is experimenting with the new tab view in Chrome. This view brings more Gemini features to the forefront, such as Deep Search and Create Images.Googlebarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hiring-geo-partner-manager-41199.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:21:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hiring-geo-partner-manager-41199.htmlGoogle recently posted a new job listing for a GEO Partner Manager. The position calls for you to be responsible for the "transition Google's engagement model from Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) discovery to formal ecosystem advocacy."Misc Googlebarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-api-version-24-41204.htmlThu, 23 Apr 2026 07:11:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ads-api-version-24-41204.htmlGoogle has released version 24 of the Google Ads API, this is a major release with dozens of updates. This update includes changes to Demand Gen, travel feeds, conversion types, shopping, reporting, videos, and much more.Google Adsbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-22-2026-41197.htmlWed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400https://www.seroundtable.com/recap-04-22-2026-41197.htmlHere is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...Search Forum Recapbarry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)