Google December Core Update, AI Overviews Gemini 2.0, Apple Visual Intelligence, Search Console Updates, Indexing Bugs & More [Video]

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Google began rolling out the December 2024 core update yesterday. Google said more core updates will come more often in the future. We are still seeing Google search ranking volatility all week long, starting over the weekend. Google confirmed it had a short indexing bug causing new content not to be indexed. Google Lens also had a serving outage on Thursday. Google added FAQs around its site reputation abuse policy. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai announced there will profound changes to Google Search in 2025. Google is testing using Gemini 2.0, its new AI model, for AI Overviews. Apple Visual Intelligence is now out and includes ChatGPT and Google Search but not local. Google Search Console is rolling out a new date picker with 24-hour view, this comes after there being a bug with the old date picker. Google Search Console Insights has removed Google Analytics data. Google Search Console’s links …