Thursday, April 2

🌟 Today’s Highlights:

• Bing is testing larger sponsored image carousels

• Google Ads is auto-applying experiments results by default

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• 💡 Today’s Insight: How crawling works on Google in 2026

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⚡️ Today’s Headlines ⚡️

🖼️ Bing is testing larger sponsored product carousels in shopping results. The new expanded sponsored products section pairs a large, double-row sponsored carousel with organic cards from individual sites.

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💪 Meta rolled out an improved ad serving process for Instagram. The newly updated Adaptive Ranking Model is able to process more engagement elements for each user in real time, while also reducing system load to ensure optimized delivery of more relevant promotions.

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🧪 Google Ads experiments now auto-apply results by default. The new Google Ads shortcut speeds rollout after a test wins, but only the metrics you picked get protected when changes move into campaigns.

💡 Today’s Insight 💡

How crawling works on Google in 2026

🗞 TL;DR - Google’s latest breakdown of crawling reveals a more resource-constrained and selective system than many marketers assume. Search Engine Land outlined the key findings on how crawling works on Google in 2026, and we’ve got the highlights for you below.

💡 Insight - First, “Googlebot” isn’t a single crawler. It’s a collection of specialized crawlers for different content types (web, images, video, etc.), each with its own behavior and limits.

Google only fetches the first ~2MB of an HTML page (including headers). Anything beyond that is ignored. Not rendered, indexed, or used for ranking. This means content placement and page size directly impact what Google can actually “see.”

After crawling, content is passed to Google’s Web Rendering Service (WRS), which executes JavaScript and processes the page like a modern browser to understand its final structure and content. However, rendering still depends on what was included in that initial crawl budget.

Importantly, Google fetches additional resources (like CSS/JS) separately, each with their own limits, so page architecture and dependencies matter for full understanding.

The broader takeaway: crawling is not unlimited. Google prioritizes efficiency, meaning only part of your page (and only certain resources) may influence indexing and ranking.

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