Google has confirmed the reports of a bug in the Search Console performance reports, specifically with the Generative AI in Search performance report. There is a data logging issue that has caused a decrease in impressions shown in the report. This is just a reporting issue, not a true issue in Google Search. What was the issue. If you look at your Generative AI report for Search in Google Search Console’s performance report, you may see a deep dive in impressions reported starting on August 13th. Here is a screenshot of one example: What Google said. Google wrote on its data anomalies page: August 13 (Generative AI in Search) A logging…
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