Your week in marketing: Facebook caps link posts, AI Overviews hit 39% of desktop searches, and Google turns on AI checkout for Shopify. Here is what to do.

An Alaska woman says a misleading AI overview from a Google search led her to unwittingly poach three wilson's snipes.

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Google is testing showing citation cards at the bottom of AI Overview responses on desktop, instead of on the right side. Google tested variations of this at least twice before, once in March of 2026…

Ce qu'il faut retenir : Monitorank a relevé 2 000 000 de SERP françaises (desktop et mobile) du 9 au 14 septembre 2026 : 50,8 % des recherches affichent

"I feel terrible, and I have a lot of shame with it." The post Woman Calls Police on Herself After Google’s AI Overviews Led Her to Poach Small Adorable Birds Out of Season appeared first on Futurism.

Google is testing showing citation cards at the bottom of AI Overview responses on desktop, instead of on the right side. Google tested variations of this at least twice before, once in March of 2026 and before that in September 2025.

Google is testing showing citation cards at the bottom of AI Overview responses on desktop, instead of on the right side. Google tested variations of this at least twice before, once in March of 2026 and before that in September 2025.

Google AI Overviews crush legacy SEO. Organic #1 links drop 1,200px while Gemini synthesizes zero-click answers. Win clickable carousel cards with static HTML t

Search Console má nový přehled pro AI Overviews a AI Mode. Ukáže vám, kolikrát se váš odkaz objevil, všem výsledkům v bloku přidělí stejnou pozici a vykazuje nulová kliknutí. Berte ho spíše jako detektor kouře než jako KPI — úspěch v AI vyhledávání posuzujte podle toho, co se děje po návštěvě webu.

Search Console now has a dedicated report for AI Overviews and AI Mode. It shows how often your links appeared, gives every link the same position, and reports zero clicks. Treat it as a smoke detector, not a KPI, and judge AI search by what happens after the visit.

Babel42 is an AI search visibility tool: see whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode recommend you to buyers, why you win or lose against rivals, and how to improve. Free to start, no card required.

After landing on multiple "best of the year" lists in 2025 for the games Magical Athlete and Hot Streak — in addition to releasing a new edition of Quacks — U.S. publisher CMYK has been quiet so far in 2026...until now. On 29 September 2026, CMYK announced the availability through its website of Grabble, a new edition of Naoki Fukuda's game Nuts a GoGo!, which Japanese publisher itten released in 2022. Front covers of __Nuts a GoGo!__ (art by Yoshiaki Tomioka) and __Grabble__ (art by SMLXL) Gameplay is straightforward: Put the six types of bits in the game box. Give a signal, then everyone starts grabbing bits and placing them in a tiny personal cup. When a player has a full cup, they start counting down and whoever is last to stop collecting bits must give a bit of their choice to the player who stopped first. Starting with the player who stopped and going clockwise, a player reveals one bit from their cup, then everyone else must discard a bit of the same type; if they don't, they're out of the game. Keep going until only one person remains. The design is fairly silly, yet it still gives you moments to ponder during the lightning-fast play. Do you go for a variety of bits to try to counter every call? Do you want to hoard one type of bit, then call that each time your turn comes around? Three types of bits come in two sizes, so should you concentrate on grabbing the smaller bits to fit more in your cup, or will you be wasting time when you could be grabbing bits indiscriminately? Components in __Nuts a GoGo!__ and __Grabble__ _Grabble_ has small differences from _Nuts a GoGo!_ , starting with the rules, which fit neatly on the inside of the box, whereas _Nuts a GoGo!_ includes rules for four variant games, e.g., instead of dumping out your bits behind your hand so that you can access everything, you must grab bits from the cup as they're stacked, which might lead to you dropping bits and having them removed from play. A representative from CMYK told me that including only one ruleset seemed to make sense given that the game will be marketed in a wide variety of retail outlets. (While initially available only from CMYK, _Grabble_ will be available via retail in Q4 2026 / Q1 2027.) The change of components surprised me as the wood bits in _Nuts a GoGo!_ are both pleasing to the eye and a source of confusion when you're trying to grab a particular type of bit — and yet I can understand why CMYK went with something different. I mean, that's kind of its thing given its new look for Quacks and its Magenta card game line. Why copy another publisher's component design when we can make something new? If someone really wants the _Nuts_ version, that's still available on the market, but now players have a second choice, too. What's more, Nuts a GoGo! wasn't even the first release of this design as it previously appeared in 2021 as **_MADA HAiLE_** from Asobication Games — and I was lucky enough to play that edition at BGG.CON in 2023: That's wildly different from _Nuts a GoGo!_ , with translucent components such as plastic rings, bells, and cars in many colors, along with metal coins and gold bars. You can't just grab all the blue bits to horde an item because many types of bits are blue, so you need to poke around in the pile to find what you want. I dig it when publishers — and by extension artists — go out of their way to put their unique spin on a licensed game. The varied editions of Reiner Knizia's Circus Flohcati delight me in their unique takes on the design, for example, and Daniel Newman does something novel with each title he licenses for New Mill Industries. More of this, please! ## Olaf Mix-Up! In June 2026, I previewed KPop Demon Hunters: Battle for the Spotlight, a game based on Seiji Kanai's Love Letter with design by Waleed Ma'arouf, and before that game has even hit retail outlets in the U.S. on 2 October 2026, publisher Z-Man Games has already announced another spinoff of _Love Letter_ courtesy of Ma'arouf: Olaf Mix-Up! In this 2-5 player game, you follow the _Love Letter_ formula — on your turn, draw a card, then play one of the two cards in hand — but your goal is to use various _Frozen_ characters to re-assemble the snowman Olaf, with each player having their own seven-piece jigsaw puzzle. Some card effects let you place a piece immediately, while others take effect at the end of the round. Standard _Love Letter_ effects are in play — swap your hand, protection from attacks, guess the card an opponent holds — but your reward for holding the highest card is to add two pieces to your puzzle. The game lasts multiple rounds, ending as soon as someone puts Olaf together again...after which you can slap him apart and start over again. ## The LOOP In late 2020, French publisher Catch Up Games released The LOOP, a co-operative design from Maxime Rambourg and Théo Rivière in which up to four players use time-travel shenanigans to try to defeat Dr. Foo, who attempts to use clones to destroy eras of time. How time travel is implemented in this design is that you can spend energy to re-gain cards played on a turn so that you can play those cards again — and if you can afford the ever-increasing cost, you can loop multiple times. Art by Simon Caruso Publisher Pandasaurus Games released _The LOOP_ in English in 2021, with Dr. Foo becoming Dr. Faux, then followed up with English-language editions of The Revenge of Fauxzilla! and The Fur Brigade in 2022 — but those expansions were released in short supply, leading to copies selling for multiple times their suggested retail price. However, in late September 2026, Pandasaurus announced that it was reprinting the base game and both expansions, with copies due out in March 2027. Pre-orders are available for those in the U.S., and these copies will also be distributed in non-European, English-speaking locations due to licensing restrictions. ****Want more game announcements like this one?**** Get Board Game Beat’s free posts by email — original reporting, designer interviews, and industry news, with no tracking, no ads, and no spam. Ready to sign up?