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Google Updates Spam Guide For Shared Pages, Generated Content & Apps

AI summary On Oct. 26, Google revised its spam guidance for hosting platforms, adding a section telling services that let users make shareable pages, interactive tools or generated content to keep them out of search by default with noindex or a robots.txt block. The guide, previously updated on Dec. 10, 2025, now also recommends verifying sites in Search Console, watching indexing and performance reports, and setting alerts when a few users produce a large portion of indexable URLs. Google's own documentation notes that a robots.txt block stops Googlebot from reading a noindex rule, and blocked URLs may still appear in the index when other sites link to them.

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Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brain

AI summary Google Research, working with the Stanford Accelerator for Learning, has released "Polar Peaks", the third game in its AI Quests series for pupils aged 11 to 14. Players map brain neurons to explain a character's memory loss, testing models and cleaning data under human supervision. The series, which won a 2026 Webby Award, has logged over 400,000 completed quests in 10 languages. New teacher modules are arriving in the Google AI Educator Series, with the one for this quest due next month.

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