Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Back Button Hijacking Penalty, Spam Reporting Change, Google Ads AI Max Replacing DSAs & More

From Search Buzz Video Roundup by Barry Schwartz

April 17, 2026

About this episode

This episode discusses a new Google Search spam penalty for back button hijacking and updates to spam reporting and Google Ads AI.

This week we covered a new Google Search spam penalty for back button hijacking. Google also updated its spam report, it may now be used for manual actions. Google is aware of self-serving listicles and warns not to...

People in this episode

Host: Barry Schwartz

Topics covered

Google Search
spam penalty
back button hijacking
spam reporting
Google Ads AI
digital marketing

Keywords

Google
spam penalty
back button hijacking
spam reporting
Google Ads AI
digital marketing
self-serving listicles

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Organizations: Google, Google Ads, Google Search