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Google's model family and assistant — the engine behind AI Overviews, AI Mode, and a growing set of Search and ads features.
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Google's AI & Economy ATLAS report, built with Google DeepMind researchers, compared 14.65 million Gemini app, AI Mode and Gemini API conversations from April 6-19, 2026 against the American Time Use Survey, per Search Engine Journal.
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 25 · · Research, Google Search, AEO
Google introduced a new generation of ad formats built with Gemini for Google Search and expanded its Direct Offers pilot for shoppers, per Google's Ads & Commerce blog.
Via Google Ads Blog ↗ · May 20 · · Google Search, AEO
On Alphabet's Q2 earnings call, Sundar Pichai named coding as an area to improve and said Google needs Gemini 4 for the next frontier — with Gemini 3.5 Pro still delayed, per Search Engine Journal.
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 23 · · Engines
Ahrefs published July citation-share rankings of the most-cited websites in Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity, tracked across US queries — a four-surface map of who the answer engines actually cite.
Via Ahrefs Blog ↗ · Jul 21 · · Research, AEO
Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is rolling out in Search, powering agentic search experiences and likely AI Overviews and AI Mode, per Search Engine Roundtable — part of the Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite launch.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 22 · · Google Search, Engines
The user-agent string changed alongside the product's rebrand to Gemini Notebook — relevant to anyone managing AI-crawler access in robots.txt, per Search Engine Roundtable.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 17 · · Google Search, AEO
A proposed class action alleges Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization, joining an unusually crowded month of AI-training litigation, per Search Engine Journal.
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 17 · · Law & Money