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This week, we're providing a status update on Google's ongoing December 2025 Core Update. Google also said it will not announce any core or quality updates in advance. Gemini 3 Flash now powers Google AI mode. Google Search Live has received a conversational language upgrade with the help of Gemini. Google's Danny Sullivan and John Mueller talked about SEO for AI and more. Google's Nick Fox said AI search optimization is the same as traditional search. Performance reporting in Google Search Console has been fixed and is now up to date. We also fixed the page indexing report. The average position in Google Search Console varies from site to site. Google explained how to run the noindex tag on your pages using JavaScript. Google also warned about canonical links with JavaScript. Google also said that JS pages that don't have a 200 status code may not render. Google has fixed a bug that caused reviews to disappear. Meanwhile, requests for review will be significantly delayed before the holidays. Google has also changed the way Q&A works in local search. Google search snippets now include a “Read more” link. Google is testing super-long AI-generated snippets. Bing is testing the plus sign in the search bar to find and create images. Bing is testing showing more search results buttons. Bing is testing underlining in search ads. That was the search news at this week's Search Engine Roundtable.
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