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July 2026
June 2026
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Google Brings Business Profile Data Directly Into Gemini
Google's handing Gemini direct access to your Business Profile data, and it's a genuinely useful upgrade. Tag @Google Business Profile in a prompt and it'll dig through your reviews, surface what customers actually love, and even update your opening hours on the fly, no dashboard hopping required. Pair that with the new "business notebooks," which hoover up your documents, spreadsheets and brand voice into one space, and Gemini stops being a generic chatbot and starts acting like someone who's actually worked at your business for a year.
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Facebook's Channels: One-Way Broadcasting for Pages
Facebook's Channels (the rebrand of broadcast channels) is a one-to-many messaging tool for Pages and pro-mode profiles with over 10,000 followers, built for announcements, exclusive content and branded posts in a chat-style format. Only the Page admin or pro-mode profile owner can post; followers can read, react and vote in polls, but they can't talk back. And because Channels are public by design, anyone on Facebook or Messenger can find one, preview it via a link, and join in, so don't mistake this for a private chat with your closest followers. It's a megaphone, not a group chat.
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Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console
Exciting news that Google will release a way to see your impressions and clicks from AI sources in GSC. Only live for select few websites, before rolling out if you don't see it yet.
AI sources in GSC