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Whats been happening in search this month for Sept 2026
Plenty of people spent September braced for a big Google core update. It hasn't come. A spam update arrived at the last minute instead, but the more interesting changes this month weren't algorithm updates at all.
A billion people a month are now searching Google with AI. If you're not being cited, you're not being found.
People aren't searching less because of AI. They're searching more. And the way they're searching has fundamentally changed. Just one year after launching AI Mode, Google now has over one billion monthly users running searches through its AI. Query volume has more than doubled every quarter since launch, and last quarter the total number of searches hit an all-time high.
New website goes live for GoForGranite
Learn how we helped GoForGranite with a new website and strategic SEO.
Icequest partners with Midlands Digital to launch new website
Discover how we worked in collaboration with Icequest to design, develop and launch their new user-focussed website