Cian Murphy

Today, we're announcing an algorithmic change that enhances the quality of articles that appear on Discover. We're calling this the February 2026 Discover Core update. Find out more in our blog post at developers.google.com/search/blog/20…

Heads-up! I saw this live yesterday before the announcement today. It's super-alarming and should be for all publishers. When you click "Show more" in the AIO, you are TAKEN OUT OF SEARCH and into just the AIO (you cannot scroll past the AIO to the search results). Then if you type a question in the "Ask anything" field, you are taken directly to AI Mode. This is not a great feature for any publisher ranking in the 10-blue links below the AIO. I'll provide some examples soon, but you can see the video below and in Barry's post.

Bit of a storm blowing in #StormChandra

ICYMI: Google's Danny Sullivan and John Mueller on AI for SEO seroundtable.com/google-danny-s…

Google says don't use a noindex tag in the original page code searchengineland.com/google-says-do…

We’re launching Preferred Sources in Search worldwide ⭐️ Preferred Sources in Search lets you customize your Top Stories in Search to see more from the outlets and sites you value, from global news outlets to local blogs. This feature is rolling out in the coming days to English-language users worldwide, with all supported languages coming soon. Learn more → goo.gle/44GQ5Xx

Google 2025 Update - The top People Searched in Ireland

Google 2025 Update - The top How to Questions: Suprising at #2 is 'How to spoil your vote ireland'.

SEOs, I've been DYING for someone to write this. This article maps E-E-A-T attributes to actual factors found in Google's API leaks:

One of the latest homepage designs from the team, did we cook?

Don’t know much about @Nick_Delehanty but he’s doing fantastic in the @thejournal_ie poll. Fair play to him and to Catherine Connelly.

@mikefutia Bananas

Google VEO3 + Nano Banana is absolutely wild 🤯 This AI workflow creates insane UGC videos in under 5 minutes... And turns any product into viral-ready content without the big budget. Perfect for e-comm operators & creative agencies. Just run this workflow & get high-quality video variations in minutes. Here's what it does: → Generate AI talent with Nano Banana → Drop in your product image → VEO 3 creates natural product interactions → Export ready-to-run UGC vids for Meta & TikTok → Full control over scenes, angles, and messaging The best part? Each video costs pennies to generate + you own 100% of the content forever. Want the full prompt templates + Loom video walkthrough? Like + comment "BANANAS" and I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)

The new Nano banana is like a Photoshop on steroids. It lets you do INSANE things that weren't possible before. Here are the 20 coolest examples I've found 🧵

She did well! Great 40th gift.

Enjoying his first fireworks #cobhregatta

Google rolling out AI Mode button on the home page search box - the future of Google Search in your face seroundtable.com/google-ai-mode… hat tip @swetav07

Your dashboards are lying. Your attribution models are broken. And if AI doesn’t remember your brand, you don’t exist. Welcome to the latent web. Here's how to survive. jonoalderson.com/conjecture/eve…

@marcio_delgado @Alain_Aussems @canva @COPYTRACK @euronewsweek Hey Marcio, I'm looking forward to it. I'll keep an eye out. Even after providing proof of screenshots of my premium licence from @canva to Copytrack they're still saying they can't accept it and require full compensation. They ignore my requests for proof of licence holder.

@CianMMurphy @Alain_Aussems @canva @COPYTRACK Thank you Cian. Actually, right now @euronewsweek is working on a follow up article after being inundated with stories from dozens of agencies and businesses owners who have also been targeted with CopyTrack’s false claims. It should be out by the end of the month.

Hello @Canva. We used a paid subscription of your platform for years. We downloaded all images legally and now @copytrack is harrassing us for the fifth time that we stole the images. Can you pls notify them to stop threatning your customers with very high legal fines.

We gave our new strategy to a tiny channel (1.3k subs) Their video went viral. - 350k views in a tiny niche. - 280x their average view count - Then repeated it multiple times So f**k it…. Here’s the strategy he used:

The Great Decoupling explained by a Googler seroundtable.com/google-explain…