
Google drops free product listings across Europe to meet the DMA
Free product listings dropped 90 to 100 percent in five EEA countries between 16 and 18 September.

Free product listings dropped 90 to 100 percent in five EEA countries between 16 and 18 September.

Google widened the description of its Mediapartners-Google crawler on 17 September 2026. Rules aimed at it now affect Ad Manager, not only AdSense.

Google has added a Collected Info tab to Business Profiles, showing what its automated assistant learned by calling or messaging the business.

Organic visibility at Germany\u2019s biggest online shops fell 16.7 percent in a year, according to a study by Sistrix and LEAP. The trade title etailment published the figures on 3 September 2026.

Relevance beat backlinks in the 2026 Google ranking factors survey, in which 131 practitioners scored 103 possible factors. Meta description came last.

Google stopped showing flight and hotel prices in EU search results on 8 September, under the Digital Markets Act.

Poland's regulator UKE will not decide until 26 December how much Google should pay press publishers. A second publishers' group has filed its own claim, worth about 514 million zloty a year.

Google has said which rival search engines can buy anonymised data from searches in Europe. Deals can be signed from 17 September, with the first samples in November.
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