12 September 2026 · SEO & GEO · Grégory Camus
On 11 September 2026, the "Pages" report in Google Search Console, the one that counts a site's indexed and non-indexed pages, lost several days of June 2026 across every property. Flagged that morning on Bluesky by Dan Lauer and picked up by Search Engine Roundtable, the gap was explained by John Mueller of Google: those days match the period in June when the report had stalled, and "we don't back-fill indexing data". For a company that tracks its indexed pages month after month, June 2026 will remain a blank on the curve, while the actual indexing of its pages has not moved.
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12 September 2026 · Digital advertising · Grégory Camus
On 11 September 2026, Search Engine Roundtable published an advertiser's screenshot showing, under a sponsored Google Shopping ad, the label "5 days left" before the end of a promotion. Google told the site it was a "very early experiment", with no further detail. The badge extends the "Deal Ends" annotation Google documented on 6 August: a countdown calculated from the sale prices and promotions in the Merchant Center feed, rolled out everywhere except the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, with no opt-out. An advertiser in Luxembourg can therefore neither display it nor decline it today, but its product feed already decides its eligibility for the day Google opens Europe.
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11 September 2026 · Content & Social media · Kenza Battache
On 10 September 2026, two days after the Australian government announced a bill requiring platforms to offer users the choice of a feed without algorithmic recommendations, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, defended algorithmic ranking during an online press briefing with Australian journalists, without commenting on the bill itself. His argument: without the algorithm, the feed would be saturated by brands, companies and publishers, which post more often than creators and friends.
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11 September 2026 · SEO & GEO · Grégory Camus
On 10 September 2026, John Mueller, Search Advocate at Google, wrote on the r/SEO forum on Reddit that "the old 'position 1 - 10' is hard to map, or to make useful for site owners". Google tracks generative AI placements as a block, with no individual position, and that data does not appear in the Search Console generative AI report.
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11 September 2026 · AI audit & integration · Xavier Lesueur
On the evening of 8 September 2026, US time (the thread is timestamped 9 September in UTC), Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old British researcher who worked on pretraining at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, announced on X, under the handle @hilbertspaess, his resignation from Anthropic and his departure from the frontier labs. Evan Hubinger, who leads the Alignment Science team at Anthropic and remains in post, publicly confirmed the substance of his message a little over eighty minutes later.
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