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    • 2026
      • September
        • Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026: Meet the community speakers
        • Search Central Live India 2026: Bengaluru, We're Coming (For Real This Time)
        • Search Central Live is coming to Bogota and Ciudad de México
      • August
        • Update to the Site Reputation Policy
      • July
        • Platform properties roll out globally, plus a new social and video performance guide
        • See how content from social and video platforms performs on Google Search
        • Search Central Deep Dive Europe 2026: Apparently we're going to Barcelona
      • June
        • Help Us Pick the Next Stop in Europe for Search Central Live Deep Dive 2026!
        • Introducing Search Generative AI performance reports in Search Console
      • May
        • A new resource for optimizing for generative AI in Google Search
      • April
        • Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
        • Search Central Live is Coming to Shanghai in 2026!
      • March
        • Inside Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process
        • New Location for the Google Crawlers' IP Range Files
        • Search Central Live is coming to Canada
        • Search Central Live Asia Pacific 2026: Get Ready for Sydney and more!
      • February
        • Google's February 2026 Discover core update
      • January
        • Search Central Live is coming back to South America
    • 2025
      • December
        • Search Central Live APAC 2025 Recap: A Note of Gratitude
        • Introducing weekly and monthly views in Search Console
        • Introducing social channels in Search Console
        • Streamline your Search Console analysis with the new AI-powered configuration
      • November
        • Introducing the Branded queries filter in Search Console