Google Sucks Shit: According to The Verge, Google search is now replacing headlines—those things we painstakingly craft—with inaccurate, AI generated AI slop, often changing the meaning entirely in what the company calls a "small and narrow experiment."

It changed a Verge headline from "I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything” to “‘Cheat on everything’ AI tool.” This is bad. Google search was the internet. It's a fucking verb.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/896490/google-replace-news-headlines-in-search-canary-coal-mine-experiment

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Google Discover testing larger publisher profile header images https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-large-publisher-header-images-41050.html

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Google Discover follow widget home card test https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-follow-widget-card-41040.html

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Google Discover showing more social media posts has been confirmed again by @johnmu https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-feed-social-media-posts-41011.html via Braian Iván Quiña

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Will Google allow publishers to claim their Google Discover feeds? https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-claim-profiles-41009.html

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Search Engine Roundtable: Google Tests Removing Dates From Articles In Discover Feed. “Google is testing removing the dates from the articles shown in the Google Discover feed. This is a limited test, Google confirmed, to see the impact of removing the date value.” Argh.

Google is testing removing dates from articles in the Google Discover feed https://www.seroundtable.com/google-discover-no-dates-articles-40975.html via @AndellDam confirmed by Google's @rajanpatel

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Google's February 2026 Discover update eliminates clickbait and prioritizes local content traffic shifts start now for US publishers. AdwaitX breaks down 3 critical algorithm changes that determine your Discover visibility #AdwaitX #GoogleDiscover #SEO2026 #Google #CoreUpdate

https://www.adwaitx.com/google-discover-update-february-2026/

Google's first core update of 2026 was released, it is focused on Google Discover and will take up to 2 weeks to roll out in the US/English only for now - seems to focus on local, clickbait and original/timely content https://www.seroundtable.com/google-february-2026-discover-core-update-40887.html

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9to5 Google: Google Discover makes messy AI headlines a ‘feature’ because they ‘perform well’. “Despite the obvious issues, though, Google Discover is going all-in on these AI-generated headlines. Google told The Verge that AI headlines in Discover are no longer an ‘experiment,’ but a ‘feature’ of the experience. Why? Google says that the feature ‘performs well for user satisfaction.’ […]