# Google — the record

The company whose answer engines, documentation changes, and earnings set the terms for everyone optimizing for AI search.

The wire's largest record, and the one where the money and the disputes sit in the same quarter. Alphabet reported Q2 2026 Search revenue of $63.27 billion, up 17% year over year — the first deceleration after four quarters of accelerating growth. Around that number: AI Overviews on 43% of searches per Similarweb; a claim from search executive Nick Fox that AI features send billions of clicks weekly, published without methodology; and a Datos/SparkToro finding that only 40% of U.S. searches sent a click to the open web in June. Google's own documentation is doing consequential work — a support page now states that signed-in search interactions improve Search's generative AI models, and its AI-features guidance says machine-readable files aren't needed. Meanwhile the UK's CMA has ordered a publisher opt-out from training, fine-tuning and grounding, and a judge dismissed most of Google's DMCA case against SerpApi.

Also known as: https://www.google.com/ · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95

- 2026-09-08: Google Ads AI dashboards go live for some advertisers (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-08-google-ads-ai-dashboards-go-live-for-some-advertisers/)
  Google Ads' Gemini-powered dashboards — which turn a text prompt into an automated data visualization and explanatory summary — are now live for some…
- 2026-09-08: Google AI Mode tests paginated follow-up chat responses (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-08-google-ai-mode-tests-paginated-follow-up-chat-responses/)
  Google is testing a paginated response format in AI Mode that automatically generates a follow-up question and answer within the same chat, with a skip…
- 2026-09-08: Google tests narrower citations panel in AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-08-google-tests-narrower-citations-panel-in-ai-overviews/)
  Google is testing a narrower citations panel for AI Overviews, per Search Engine Roundtable — the redesign was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani on X and…
- 2026-09-07: Google Shopping ads CTR climbs as AI Overviews cuts impressions (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-07-google-shopping-ads-ctr-climbs-as-ai-overviews-cuts-impressions/)
  Google Shopping ads' median click-through rate rose from about 1.20% to nearly 1.55% while impressions fell from roughly 1.85 million to 1.4 million…
- 2026-09-04: Google Ads tests exact and phrase match ads in AI Mode (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-04-google-ads-tests-exact-and-phrase-match-ads-in-ai-mode/)
  Google has confirmed it is running a small experiment serving text ads from regular Search campaigns in AI Mode, limited to exact and phrase match…
- 2026-09-04: ChatGPT's in-house search index still leans on Google, Bing (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-04-chatgpt-s-in-house-search-index-still-leans-on-google-bing/)
  Peec AI's Tomek Rudzki reports that OpenAI has built its own retrieval index, internally named Labrador, spanning separate vertical indexes for web pages…
- 2026-09-04: Google confirms AI Mode citation bug in Gemini 3.8 Flash (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-04-google-confirms-ai-mode-citation-bug-in-gemini-3-8-flash/)
  Robby Stein, Google Search's VP of product, confirmed on X that Google AI Mode responses generated with Gemini 3.8 Flash are failing to cite or link…
- 2026-09-03: EU fines Google €460 million for DMA search self-preferencing (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-03-eu-fines-google-460-million-for-dma-search-self-preferencing/)
  The European Commission fined Alphabet €460 million on July 23, 2026, ruling under Article 6(5) of the Digital Markets Act that Google favored nine of its…
- 2026-09-03: Gemini 3.8 Flash cites fewer sources in Google AI Mode (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-03-gemini-3-8-flash-cites-fewer-sources-in-google-ai-mode/)
  SEO practitioners Gagan Ghotra and Glenn Gabe reported that Google AI Mode responses generated on the newly rolled-out Gemini 3.8 Flash model show…
- 2026-09-03: Google AI Mode shows higher prices than Search, study finds (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-03-google-ai-mode-shows-higher-prices-than-search-study-finds/)
  A Productrise study of 2 million-plus product listings tracked Aug 9-31, 2026 found Google AI Mode prices averaged 21.6% higher than matching items in…
- 2026-09-02: Gemini 3.8 Flash lands in Google AI Mode (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-02-gemini-3-8-flash-lands-in-google-ai-mode/)
  Gemini 3.8 Flash is now rolling out globally in Google Search's AI Mode, available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers through the model picker…
- 2026-09-01: Gemini gains agentic video understanding for YouTube's Ask (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-01-gemini-gains-agentic-video-understanding-for-youtube-s-ask/)
  Google introduced agentic video understanding across Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite, letting the model dynamically scan and choose which…
- 2026-09-01: Google Discover now sends news publishers more than twice what Search does (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-01-google-discover-now-sends-news-publishers-more-than-twice-what-search/)
  Across the 400-plus news publishers NewzDash tracks, Google Discover supplied 67.51% of Google traffic in the fourth quarter of 2025 against 27% for Web…
- 2026-09-01: Google Coati rests on one 2022 sentence and appears in no Google documentation (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-09-01-google-coati-rests-on-one-2022-sentence-and-appears-in-no-google/)
  Everything published about the Coati algorithm traces to a single source: Hyung-Jin Kim, Google's VP of Search, speaking at the SMX Next keynote on…
- 2026-08-31: Search Console's AI Overviews opt-out control rolls out to all sites (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-search-console-s-ai-overviews-opt-out-control-rolls-out-to-all-sites/)
  Google's Search Console documentation now says the Search generative AI control — the setting that removes a site from AI Overviews, AI Mode and…
- 2026-08-31: Google AI Mode adds inline shopping ad carousel (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-google-ai-mode-adds-inline-shopping-ad-carousel/)
  Google is showing a shopping ads carousel inline within AI Mode's response for the first time, alongside a separate ad unit at the bottom of results, per…
- 2026-08-31: Google's Mueller: AI crawlers aren't requesting markdown (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-google-s-mueller-ai-crawlers-aren-t-requesting-markdown/)
  Responding to a r/TechSEO question about whether markdown files ease AI bot load, Google's John Mueller said that on his own test sites, "the only…
- 2026-08-31: Freshness outranks word count in Google's listicle rankings (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-31-freshness-outranks-word-count-in-google-s-listicle-rankings/)
  A listicle with an old or unreadable publish date had 56% lower odds of reaching the Google top 3, the single strongest factor in a Growth Memo analysis…
- 2026-08-30: ACP, AP2 and x402 are three layers of one stack, not three rivals (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-30-acp-ap2-and-x402-are-three-layers-of-one-stack-not-three-rivals/)
  An agent arriving at a site raises three questions in order: who are you, may you read this, and may you buy.
- 2026-08-30: Cloudflare's September 15 default blocks Googlebot on ad-bearing pages (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-30-cloudflare-s-september-15-default-blocks-googlebot-on-ad-bearing-pages/)
  On September 15 Cloudflare sets new defaults for the three crawler classifications it introduced in July.
- 2026-08-30: GreyNoise finds forged ClaudeBot and GPTBot traffic hunting for credentials (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-30-greynoise-finds-forged-claudebot-and-gptbot-traffic-hunting-for/)
  GreyNoise reported on August 28 that scanners forging AI-crawler names probed the open web for credential files from 824 addresses across 795 separate…
- 2026-08-29: Google confirms AI Overviews now dynamically expand (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-29-google-confirms-ai-overviews-now-dynamically-expand/)
  Google has confirmed that AI Overviews can expand to their full length automatically for some queries, without the "Show more" click, pushing traditional…
- 2026-08-28: Google AI Overviews test drops Show more button, defaults to AI Mode (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-28-google-ai-overviews-test-drops-show-more-button-defaults-to-ai-mode/)
  Google is testing an AI Overview that loads its full AI-generated answer by default, without a "Show more" click, and opens the follow-up "Ask anything"…
- 2026-08-28: SerpApi seeks to dismiss Google's amended DMCA complaint (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-28-serpapi-seeks-to-dismiss-google-s-amended-dmca-complaint/)
  SerpApi filed a motion on August 28 to dismiss Google's First Amended Complaint, per Chat GPT Is Eating the World.
- 2026-08-27: Google AI Mode adds hotel booking and flight-price tracking (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-google-ai-mode-adds-hotel-booking-and-flight-price-tracking/)
  Google added three travel features to AI Mode in Search: hotel search and booking through partners including Booking.com, Expedia and Marriott, with…
- 2026-08-27: No major AI crawler publicly meets all four of Cloudflare's conditions (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-no-major-ai-crawler-publicly-meets-all-four-of-cloudflare-s-conditions/)
  When Cloudflare launched Bot Preference Sync on August 21 it set four conditions a crawler doing both search and training must meet to keep reaching sites…
- 2026-08-27: What Google's AI Overviews opt-out does, and two things it does not (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-27-what-google-s-ai-overviews-opt-out-does-and-two-things-it-does-not/)
  Google Search Console carries a Search generative AI control under Settings that takes a site out of AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in…
- 2026-08-26: Judge Mehta calls Google's AI Overviews "unfair" to publishers (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-26-judge-mehta-calls-google-s-ai-overviews-unfair-to-publishers/)
  U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta — who previously ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in search — said at a Tuesday hearing that Google's use of…
- 2026-08-25: Google's AI Mode gets link carousels for developing topics (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-25-google-s-ai-mode-gets-link-carousels-for-developing-topics/)
  Google has rolled out developing-topic link carousels inside AI Mode, showing article cards with images, headlines, sources and publish dates for trending…
- 2026-08-25: Google moves AI Overviews above stock ticker charts (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-25-google-moves-ai-overviews-above-stock-ticker-charts/)
  Google is now placing an AI Overview above the stock-price chart widget for ticker queries like [GOOG stock] or [MSFT stock], per Search Engine…
- 2026-08-25: Google's listicle demotion is targeted, not universal (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-25-google-s-listicle-demotion-is-targeted-not-universal/)
  Google's share of listicles holding position 1 fell from roughly 19-20% in January 2026 to about 15-16% in August, while top-3 listicle rates dropped from…
- 2026-08-24: AI Overviews' finance expansion flipped who wins ticker queries (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-24-ai-overviews-finance-expansion-flipped-who-wins-ticker-queries/)
  Google AI Overviews expanded into the finance category in April 2026, shifting query volume toward ticker lookups, according to a BrightEdge analysis of…
- 2026-08-24: Google says GEO needs no special tactics beyond SEO (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-24-google-says-geo-needs-no-special-tactics-beyond-seo/)
  Google's John Mueller told a Bluesky user asking whether their industry could skip generative engine optimization and focus solely on SEO that "there's…
- 2026-08-22: Judge denies Google fee bid as publishers drop suit (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-22-judge-denies-google-fee-bid-as-publishers-drop-suit/)
  A federal judge denied Google's request for attorneys' fees after publishers Cengage and Hachette withdrew their motion to intervene in the multidistrict…
- 2026-08-22: Google adds experiment tools to AI Max for Search ads (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-22-google-adds-experiment-tools-to-ai-max-for-search-ads/)
  Google added experimentation and planning features to AI Max for Search campaigns on August 21, including multi-campaign A/B testing arriving in…
- 2026-08-21: Google's own tests show AI interfaces beating search results (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-21-google-s-own-tests-show-ai-interfaces-beating-search-results/)
  Google's own testing shows AI Overviews' generated interfaces beating the top organic search result in 90% of head-to-head comparisons, per Search Engine…
- 2026-08-20: Google lets publishers embed a Preferred Sources button (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-20-google-lets-publishers-embed-a-preferred-sources-button/)
  Google is rolling out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button publishers can add to their pages; a reader click adds the site as a Preferred Source and…
- 2026-08-19: AI Overviews get generative UI: layouts built on demand (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-19-google-expands-generative-ui-to-ai-overviews/)
  Google has begun rolling out generative UI — on-the-fly visual layouts and interactive tools such as an adjustable pH scale — from AI Mode into AI…
- 2026-08-19: Google adds AI study tools to Search, Gemini for students (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-19-google-adds-ai-study-tools-to-search-gemini-for-students/)
  Google rolled out AI-powered study features across Search and Gemini on August 19, timed to the U.S. school year.
- 2026-08-19: 41-day test finds AI crawlers miss JavaScript-only links entirely (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-19-41-day-test-finds-ai-crawlers-miss-javascript-only-links-entirely/)
  An SEO tested crawler discovery on a 2,400-page site by splitting internal links between hard-coded HTML and JavaScript-injected versions, then logging…
- 2026-08-18: Gemini in Chrome rolls out to all US Android users (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-18-gemini-in-chrome-rolls-out-to-all-us-android-users/)
  Google made Gemini in Chrome available to all Android users in the U.S. on August 18, 2026, per the company's own announcement.
- 2026-08-18: Study finds AI Overview traffic misattributed 22% of time (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-18-study-finds-ai-overview-traffic-misattributed-22-of-time/)
  A nine-month GA4 tracking study of 51,200 clicks across 1,661 AI Overview-cited snippets found an average of 22.4% of that traffic was misattributed to…
- 2026-08-18: Benchmark flags GEO-optimized content in live search results (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-18-benchmark-flags-geo-optimized-content-in-live-search-results/)
  A GEOFlagBench study — 3,200 pages spanning eight GEO optimizer families — trained a detector, Intervention-Paired Training on ModernBERT, that raised F1…
- 2026-08-17: Google pauses AI-generated recipe images in AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-17-google-pauses-ai-generated-recipe-images-in-ai-overviews/)
  Google has stopped generating AI images inside AI Overviews for recipe results, Robby Stein, the company's vice president of product, told Search Engine…
- 2026-08-17: UK charities report steep traffic losses to Google AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-17-uk-charities-report-steep-traffic-losses-to-google-ai-overviews/)
  Blood Cancer UK's leukaemia information page lost 53% of page views over the past year, with declines of 17-45% across its other blood cancer pages, while…
- 2026-08-17: Google research: entity order limits LLM fact recall (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-17-google-research-entity-order-limits-llm-fact-recall/)
  A new Google research paper finds that encoding isn't the bottleneck for LLM fact recall — frontier models including Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5 encode 95-98%…
- 2026-08-16: AI-generated images begin appearing in AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-ai-generated-images-begin-appearing-in-ai-overviews/)
  Google has started showing AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search, Search Engine Roundtable reported, about a month after Google said it…
- 2026-08-16: AI Overviews in local results cite low-quality listicles, SER finds (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-ai-overviews-in-local-results-cite-low-quality-listicles-ser-finds/)
  Google is showing AI Overviews-style summaries within local pack results on some searches, and those summaries often draw on low-quality, self-promotional…
- 2026-08-16: Gemini 3.7 Flash rolls out in Google AI Mode (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-16-gemini-3-7-flash-rolls-out-in-google-ai-mode/)
  Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash in AI Mode for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in English, Google's Robby Stein said, per Search Engine Land…
- 2026-08-11: French publishers file complaint against Google AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-11-french-publishers-file-complaint-against-google-ai-overviews/)
  The Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG), representing nearly 300 French newspapers, filed a complaint with France's competition authority…
- 2026-08-11: Gemini app passes 1 billion monthly users (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-11-gemini-app-passes-1-billion-monthly-users/)
  Google says the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, calling it the fastest-growing product in the company's history.
- 2026-08-11: Google refiles DMCA claim against scraper SerpApi (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-11-google-refiles-dmca-claim-against-scraper-serpapi/)
  Google filed a First Amended Complaint against scraper SerpApi on August 11, adding new allegations to try to revive the DMCA anti-circumvention claim…
- 2026-08-11: Google Analytics, Ads gain new AI reporting features (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-11-google-analytics-ads-gain-new-ai-reporting-features/)
  Google added AI Overview cards to the Google Analytics homepage that summarize account activity since a user's last login, plus AI-powered insight cards…
- 2026-08-10: Google tests home page buttons for images, files, brainstorming (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-10-google-tests-home-page-buttons-for-images-files-brainstorming/)
  Google is testing new "Create images," "Ask about files," and "Brainstorm" buttons below the search box on its desktop home page, per Search Engine…
- 2026-08-08: Amicus brief urges D.C. Circuit to toughen Google's AI antitrust remedy (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-08-amicus-brief-urges-d-c-circuit-to-toughen-google-s-ai-antitrust-remedy/)
  Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, and Asad Ramzanali, a former White House OSTP official, filed a 34-page amicus brief on August 4…
- 2026-08-07: Gemini's Business Profile editing now covers multi-location accounts (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-07-gemini-s-business-profile-editing-now-covers-multi-location-accounts/)
  Google's Gemini assistant can now edit Google Business Profile listings for accounts managing multiple locations, expanding a feature that launched in…
- 2026-08-06: AI Mode citation mix shifts from publishers toward retail products (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-06-ai-mode-citation-mix-shifts-from-publishers-toward-retail-products/)
  Google AI Mode's mentions of publisher sites fell nearly in half over the 30 days ending July 15, 2026, while mentions of retailers like Home Depot and…
- 2026-08-05: Google denies giving Reddit special preference in Search rankings (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-05-google-denies-giving-reddit-special-preference-in-search-rankings/)
  Google spokesperson Jennifer Kutz told The Verge that Reddit "gets no special preference" in Google Search or its AI search features, per Search Engine…
- 2026-08-05: Google Assistant to shut down on Android phones September 4 (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-05-google-assistant-to-shut-down-on-android-phones-september-4/)
  Google will remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, and paired devices like smartwatches and headphones starting September 4, 2026, per an…
- 2026-08-04: People Inc. won't block Google's AI crawlers despite traffic slide (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-04-people-inc-won-t-block-google-s-ai-crawlers-despite-traffic-slide/)
  People Inc. CEO Neil Vogel told Digiday the publisher won't cut off Google's AI crawlers, saying doing so "would turn off search" and the company isn't…
- 2026-08-03: Zero-click Google searches hit a record high, AI Mode use stays flat (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-03-zero-click-google-searches-hit-a-record-high-ai-mode-use-stays-flat/)
  Just 40% of U.S. searches and 40.7% in the EU/UK sent a click to the open web in June 2026, a record low, per Datos and SparkToro's Q2 State of Search…
- 2026-08-01: Gemini Spark's Chrome shopping agent expands to 160 countries, skips EU and UK (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-gemini-spark-s-chrome-shopping-agent-expands-to-160-countries-skips/)
  Google expanded Gemini Spark's Chrome integration on July 30, 2026, letting the AI assistant use saved passwords and logged-in accounts to research and…
- 2026-08-01: Google guidance: machine-readable AI files do nothing for Search (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-google-guidance-machine-readable-ai-files-do-nothing-for-search/)
  Google's "AI features and your website" documentation states plainly: "You don't need to create new machine readable files, AI text files, or markup to…
- 2026-08-01: Search Console platform properties roll out globally for social and video (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-search-console-platform-properties-roll-out-globally-for-social-and/)
  Search Console's platform properties — which let Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts be verified as first-class properties and show how their posts…
- 2026-08-01: UK's CMA orders Google to give publishers AI opt-out and attribution rights (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-uk-s-cma-orders-google-to-give-publishers-ai-opt-out-and-attribution/)
  The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a Publisher Conduct Requirement on Google on June 3, 2026, under its digital markets regime — a legally…
- 2026-08-01: Reddit CEO says AI Overviews still haven't found a "win-win" (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-08-01-reddit-ceo-says-ai-overviews-still-haven-t-found-a-win-win/)
  Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told investors on the company's Q2 earnings call that Google's AI Overviews have "yet to make a similar level of positive impact"…
- 2026-07-30: Similarweb: 95% of ChatGPT users also search on Google (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-30-similarweb-95-of-chatgpt-users-also-search-on-google/)
  A new Similarweb report finds 95% of ChatGPT's 494 million users also used Google during the same March-to-May 2026 span, per Search Engine Journal…
- 2026-07-30: Google says AI Overview's race-based answer came from source pages (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-30-google-says-ai-overview-s-race-based-answer-came-from-source-pages/)
  Google's official account responded on X to complaints that an AI Overview gave different answers to near-identical searches asking whether it's…
- 2026-07-29: Pillarbase study: 15.7 million AI Mode citations show what Google reuses (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-29-pillarbase-study-15-7-million-ai-mode-citations-show-what-google/)
  Pillarbase analyzed 15.7 million Google AI Mode citations across 148 industries over a year, per a study published via Search Engine Land.
- 2026-07-28: Google's AI opt-out setting may cost publishers Top Stories placement (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-28-google-s-ai-opt-out-setting-may-cost-publishers-top-stories-placement/)
  An analysis by NewzDash founder John Shehata, reported by Search Engine Journal, finds Google now places Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews on…
- 2026-07-28: Judge dismisses most of Google's DMCA case against scraper SerpApi (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-28-judge-dismisses-most-of-google-s-dmca-case-against-scraper-serpapi/)
  A federal judge dismissed most of Google's DMCA anti-circumvention claims against scraper SerpApi, ruling that SearchGuard, Google's anti-bot system…
- 2026-07-27: AI Overviews now appear in 43% of Google searches, up from 15% (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-27-ai-overviews-now-appear-in-43-of-google-searches-up-from-15/)
  AI Overviews surfaced in 43% of Google searches, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a Similarweb analysis reported by TechCrunch.
- 2026-07-25: Google study finds AI Mode and Gemini queries skew toward high-friction tasks (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-25-google-study-finds-ai-mode-and-gemini-queries-skew-toward-high/)
  Google's AI & Economy ATLAS report, built with Google DeepMind researchers, compared 14.65 million Gemini app, AI Mode and Gemini API conversations from…
- 2026-07-24: Google Help Page Spells Out How Signed-In History Trains AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-24-google-help-page-spells-out-how-signed-in-history-trains-ai-overviews/)
  Google's AI Overviews support documentation states that signed-in users' search interactions, alongside feedback and human review, are used to improve…
- 2026-07-23: Google rolls out new ad formats built with Gemini for Search (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-google-rolls-out-new-ad-formats-built-with-gemini-for-search/)
  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 &…
- 2026-07-23: Alphabet Q2: Search revenue up 17% as growth eases (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-alphabet-q2-search-revenue-up-17-as-growth-eases/)
  Alphabet reported Q2 Search revenue of $63.27 billion, up 17% year over year — the first deceleration after four quarters of accelerating growth, with…
- 2026-07-23: Gemini 3.5 Pro delayed; Pichai looks to Gemini 4 for the frontier (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-pichai-google-needs-gemini-4-to-compete-at-the-frontier/)
  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…
- 2026-07-23: AI Mode and ChatGPT test bottom-anchored citations (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-ai-mode-and-chatgpt-test-bottom-anchored-citations/)
  Google AI Mode and OpenAI's ChatGPT are both testing citation cards placed at the bottom of answers — AI Mode anchoring a card at the end of the response…
- 2026-07-23: Ads appear on a third of commercial AI Mode queries, analysis finds (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-ads-appear-on-a-third-of-commercial-ai-mode-queries-analysis-finds/)
  A new analysis of AI Mode text ads reported by Search Engine Journal found ads on nearly one in three commercial-keyword queries — and advertisers rarely…
- 2026-07-23: Google is AI Mode's second-most-cited domain, new data shows (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-google-is-ai-mode-s-second-most-cited-domain-new-data-shows/)
  New citation data reported by Search Engine Journal shows Google itself is now the second most-cited domain in AI Mode answers, driven by Google-hosted…
- 2026-07-23: Google Search now runs the latest Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-23-google-search-now-runs-the-latest-gemini-3-5-flash-lite/)
  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…
- 2026-07-20: AI Mode can now act inside Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-google-ai-mode-adds-instacart-canva-and-youtube-music-integrations/)
  Google connected more apps to AI Mode, letting answers act across Instacart, Canva and YouTube Music accounts — another step toward the answer layer as an…
- 2026-07-20: Google claims AI Search sends 'billions of clicks' weekly, without the data (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-google-claims-ai-search-sends-billions-of-clicks-weekly-without-the/)
  Google search executive Nick Fox says AI features in Search now send billions of clicks to websites each week; no methodology accompanied the claim.
- 2026-07-20: Google renames NotebookLM crawler user-agent to Google-GeminiNotebook (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-google-renames-notebooklm-crawler-user-agent-to-google-gemininotebook/)
  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…
- 2026-07-20: Publishers file class action over books used to train Gemini (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-publishers-file-class-action-over-books-used-to-train-gemini/)
  A proposed class action alleges Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization, joining an unusually crowded month of AI-training…
- 2026-07-20: Search Console adds Generative AI performance reports (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-search-console-adds-generative-ai-performance-reports/)
  Google's Search Central announced performance reporting for generative-AI search experiences in Search Console, giving sites first-party impression and…
- 2026-07-20: Top Stories carousel now live inside Google AI Overviews (https://anythingengineoptimization.com/item/2026-07-20-top-stories-carousel-now-live-inside-google-ai-overviews/)
  News content including a Top Stories carousel is fully rolled out in AI Overviews for U.S. mobile users, surfacing Preferred Sources on developing-topic…

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