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Dave commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Beginning To Cool

It was flat over the weekend. I thought it was over. But the volatility resumed again. On the serps I monitored, it’s a constant battle between commercial and info. And when Google sticking to info, it’s refining by dumping parasites to the bottom. But then Google refining by mixing commercial with info. But then Google making up their mind and displaying less commercial again. And then reverting as people don’t click on them (they want commercial results not long articles focusing on pain points) So it seems that Google is trying to look for a sweet spot.

Comment ID #6841462620 02/22/2026 08:54 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Interesting. AI eating itself, it will have 0 to train from in 2-3 years. Reddit won't even supply the amount of human content needed to improve Gemini, and i suspect it is more like 80% of all new reddit posts are AI.

Comment ID #6841440662 02/22/2026 07:23 pm

Zolux commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Beginning To Cool

If this is not a global Core update meltdown I don't know what is it...

Comment ID #6841358951 02/22/2026 03:11 pm

Ekees SEO commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Beginning To Cool

Too cool...

Comment ID #6841356527 02/22/2026 03:06 pm

Durant Imboden commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Beginning To Cool

Not sure about cooling, but after days of mostly higher than normal Google traffic, things have slowed down considerably here. What Google giveth, Google taketh away.

Comment ID #6841286200 02/22/2026 12:19 pm

Dark OG commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Beginning To Cool

Aint nothing about Google is ever cool nga.

Comment ID #6841219395 02/22/2026 09:55 am

DataDonkey commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

A lot of those posts are from a year ago, but it's a lot worse now. Reddit itself is coming under fire because of the growing AI Slop they're hosting. <b>Reddit Is Quietly Becoming an AI Slopfest. Can Anyone Save It?</b> - <a href="https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/reddit-is-quietly-becoming-an-ai-slopfest-can-anyone-save-it">https://www.pcmag.com/opinions/reddit-is-quietly-becoming-an-ai-slopfest-can-anyone-save-it</a> <blockquote>AI has made it easier than ever for anyone to post faux content on Reddit, posing as original thoughts from human users. One study estimates that 15% of content posted on Reddit in 2025 was generated by AI. The worst part? It's almost impossible to tell given users' anonymity and the site's simple interface. It could come from anywhere, anyone, or any chatbot.</blockquote>

Comment ID #6841195871 02/22/2026 08:53 am

actualart commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

If you are not a store you have zero incentive to optimise for AI. Actually you have inverse incentive - the less AI cites you the more traffic and revenue you get.

Comment ID #6841182361 02/22/2026 08:10 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/715c24b3e9f78ab0b6b2c4641e76b3d2f9fc832d3d34660af39956a87eb5b634.png

Comment ID #6841171805 02/22/2026 07:30 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

slowly but surely I'm getting to the point where bing actually get the same traffic as google ( and I truly believe soon will exceed) in a nutshell for yesterday: 119 clicks google GSC, 71 clicks Bing console, there you have it.

Comment ID #6841163137 02/22/2026 06:51 am

Denny Fischer commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

yes, german Tech News. Going down for me since Nov 2025. Now all time low

Comment ID #6841145471 02/22/2026 05:17 am

googleisjoke commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

this world is fucked when we have to optimize for AI to privillege us and get scrapped, so it's no more theft, but privillege, look wanna vommit, that phrase"AI scrapes structure, not storytelling" DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD so I should be proud of fucking AI scraping the content? sick world! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8e54a34be516001e8ee88778eb07e38ca589a4892e90fc80c48b2ab2f9a7fbdd.png

Comment ID #6841125536 02/22/2026 03:23 am

snuffy commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Thanks Granny. I was responding to the duck abuse.

Comment ID #6841066683 02/21/2026 09:06 pm

Dark OG commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Yo ass would get a better response complaining to a wall than from shady Google bitchez nga.

Comment ID #6841045150 02/21/2026 07:34 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

There is so much AI, videos and answer boxes above the fold people are just not trusting anything which leads to not buying. I am still buying from the shopping boxes as I just bought some items, but this is old-school. I like old-school. Problem is: There is so many ads on youtube people are switching off and it won't convert. People are overwhelmed with AI now, they are "tuning out" and not buying. I reduced my website ads a few days ago, I earn less but I am saving my readers being overwhelmed. The only way to fix this mess is to accept what the user wants, putting the 10 blue links back to the top of search with an option of an AI answer, but they can't / won't due to stock price....so it is heading towards advertisors reviewing/moving/restricting budgets. March 31st is cut off point for Google ...this is the time budgets are set for Q3 and Q4 based on past ROI. Wall street are going to look very carefully at profit in Q3 and Q4 and want billion dollar quarters again.

Comment ID #6841022044 02/21/2026 06:05 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

I don't think the issue is scraping or copyright rather than the mechanism to bypass their anti-scraping system.

Comment ID #6841007206 02/21/2026 05:18 pm

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Why is copyright assigned to a set of scraped results but not the words within the results of the person who wrote them. Does not make sense.

Comment ID #6840950846 02/21/2026 02:49 pm

CM Puck commented on Video: Google Volatility Heated All Week, Google Reviews Vanishing, AI Overview & AI Mode Links Updated, Google Ads News and more

Around 2/16 all of my client's social and business profiles stopped ranking for their name, which is a unique branded keyword, and instead Google started ranking a bunch of seemingly random websites that didn't include any of those keywords like TikTok videos, and public data aggregation sites. On 2/18, it reverted back, social and business profiles were ranking again and "random" websites were banished. Fast forward to today, 2/21 and the random websites, that have nothing to do with the branded keywords (client's name) are now ranking again. What is going on? Are other seeing something similar?

Comment ID #6840943400 02/21/2026 02:32 pm

Claire commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

yes... as i reported a week back... facebook ads not converting too. many bot traffic. if you see in facebookads subreddit, many are complaining about bot traffic and conversion or sales falling flat. seems like big tech are all colluding together to fuck us all... :(

Comment ID #6840901585 02/21/2026 12:50 pm

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

The only thing they will listen to is if it made them more money, anything else is a waste of time.

Comment ID #6840853734 02/21/2026 10:51 am

Chris Mitchell commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

My Google discover traffic is literally dead. Since the start of the year and now into Feb with this 'Discover Update'. Worst start to a year since 2020. Anyone else having this nightmare? I own a UK local news site.

Comment ID #6840809663 02/21/2026 08:50 am

Helga commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Sir, Google sounds like my hemorrhoids.

Comment ID #6840807461 02/21/2026 08:43 am

Andrew Pace commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Yes, and I've complained for years to our Google reps about this.

Comment ID #6840791803 02/21/2026 07:48 am

Golden Phoenix commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

it's always heated but never in a good way

Comment ID #6840787142 02/21/2026 07:29 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Commercial or Publisher, I mean you review cars or sell/repair etc? Just nosey...

Comment ID #6840776110 02/21/2026 06:39 am

Sam commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Interesting, so basically my words that have been scraped are not copyrightable and can be used by these scrapers at free will, presenting my words and not giving me payment (so that's ok?). Plepexity uses my words for first position followed by my competitors words and does not pay us.... so Google are saying in this lawsuit I don't have copyright over my words but they have copyright over results that contain my words... My words are also personal information and experiences...not something a fact book can make up.

Comment ID #6840766437 02/21/2026 05:49 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

So detached from reality in his ivory castle, looking down on us.

Comment ID #6840764258 02/21/2026 05:36 am

JMH commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

Anyone else see turmoil across every channel when there is movement in organic search? For us the paid channels and everything just seems to come to a standstill. And it nearly always coincides with organic search movement. Over the last few days we’ve been bouncing around from position 3 to page 2, but our Google paid search channels have also come to a stop and are not converting.

Comment ID #6840743989 02/21/2026 03:32 am

racefan01 commented on Google Discourages Force Indexing Your Pages To Search

A stupid algorithm broke the indexing on my news site. It takes 3 to 8 hours for a news item to appear in search results. If you don't submit your news for indexing to Search Console, there's no point in having a news site. And idiotic Google doesn't try to fix this problem on many websites.

Comment ID #6840737563 02/21/2026 02:46 am

John A. User commented on Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated Through Weekend

It all boils down to whether Serpapi is bypassing its anti-scraping technology rather than scraping. <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/21/serpapi_google_scraping_lawsuit/">https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/21/serpapi_google_scraping_lawsuit/</a>

Comment ID #6840735991 02/21/2026 02:34 am

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