SEO UPDATE • SEPTEMBER 2026 Google Search Console Just Changed: New AI & Visual Search Data You Should Check Google has introduced new multimodal search reporting in Search Console. Here is what website owners, bloggers and SEO professionals need to know. Important: Google announced a new multimodal search type in Search Console on September 24, 2026. The reporting is designed to help site owners understand how their content performs when people search using images and other visual search experiences. Search is no longer limited to someone typing a few words into a search box. People can now search using photographs, screenshots, smartphone cameras and visual references. Google is increasingly combining text, images and AI to understand what users are looking for. That creates an important SEO question: "Can your website be...