The first core update of 2024 finished rolling out on April 19 - this was a pretty big one but it overlapped with other big changes leading to a 45% reduction in unhelpful content.
https://searchengineland.com/google-march-2024-core-update-rollout-is-now-complete-438713
Instead, Google will automatically add eligible publishers and will eventually remove those publishers not eligible.
https://searchengineland.com/google-publisher-center-to-stop-allowing-you-to-add-publications-439978
You can now more easily see and remove which have access to your Search Console profiles.
Google also added the feature availability for this carousel beta.
This comes after Google Search officially dropped its cache link a couple of months go.
https://searchengineland.com/bing-search-tests-removing-cache-link-439129
Google issued a correction plus explained Search Console had a reporting bug with Web Stories in Image Search.
https://searchengineland.com/google-did-not-drop-web-stories-from-image-results-438865
It can go live at Google I/O in May but likely not on queries with ads.
https://searchengineland.com/google-still-has-not-announced-a-launch-date-for-sge-438862
Many sites are seeing zero or little real-time traffic reported in GA4.
https://searchengineland.com/google-analytics-real-time-reporting-bug-confirmed-438801
Now when you have multiple images, this markup can help Google known which image the 3D image references.
https://searchengineland.com/google-adds-3d-model-markup-for-product-structured-data-438755
This comes days after the company announced the new CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman.