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Google's Discover Reporting Broke 10 Days After the 50-Week Bug Closed

Google confirmed a logging bug knocked clicks and impressions out of the Discover performance report in Search Console between May 7 and May 8, 2026. The fix has no public ETA, and John Mueller already confirmed historical data from these bugs does not get backfilled. Annotate the two-day gap in

Google Handed 54 Publishers Discover Profile Control. 95% Forgot to Add UTMs.

Google quietly gave 54 US publishers control over their Discover profile pages between March and May 2026, adding banners, links shelves, and pinned posts to a surface that used to be algorithm-only. 41 of the 54 uploaded custom banners and 33 enabled the links shelf. Only 3 publishers added UTM