Google is testing a "Source preferences" button inside AI Mode's citations sidebar that opens a user's preferred-sources list, letting them add or remove…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 19 · · Google Search, AEO
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">ChatGPT dropped its link tags for a week · Google…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 19 · · AEO, Research, Google Search
Google began blocking bulk search-results collection outright on September 13, 2026, then switched to serving pages with swapped-out results instead…
Via Nozzle ↗ · Oct 10 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google has begun emailing AI Plus subscribers a firm date for losing Gemini Pro access: November 13, 2026, per 9to5Google.
Via 9to5Google ↗ · Oct 14 · · Google Search
Google's News AI pilot — a licensing program specific to Google News, distinct from the Search Console-based AI contribution pilot the wire has tracked…
Via Google ↗ · Oct 15 · · Google Search, Law & Money
Google has started testing ads in AI Mode for users who connect apps through its Personal Intelligence feature, per Search Engine Land — a reversal from…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Oct 17 · · Google Search
Google updated its Indexing API documentation on October 16 (spotted via a changelog diff, date approximate) to remove the form publishers used to request…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Oct 16 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Google is rolling out several changes to AI Mode and AI Overviews meant to surface more links out to other sites, per its own announcement: - more inline…
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Oct 15 · · Google Search, AEO
Google has launched Universal Cart, an AI shopping hub that gathers items from multiple retailers into one place, checks them against its Shopping Graph's…
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Oct 15 · · Google Search, AEO
Google is testing the left vertical sidebar normally seen only inside AI Mode — Google's logo, chat history, a button to start an AI Mode chat and a…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 14 · · Google Search, AEO
Google search advocates Martin Splitt and John Mueller couldn't recall Googlebot's PDF file-size cap on their own podcast, Search Off the Record, despite…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 14 · · Google Search, AEO
News/Media Alliance, a U.S. publisher trade group, told the UK's Competition and Markets Authority on October 9 that AI assistants and chatbots should be…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Oct 13 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Ad-intelligence firm Adthena said it tracked an Eli Lilly ad for an oral GLP-1 weight-loss pill running inside a Google AI Mode answer on October 11…
Via Adthena ↗ · Oct 13 · · Google Search
Google has added Gemini 4 Argon as a selectable model inside AI Mode's "Ask anything" bar, reachable via the menu's "+" icon, per Search Engine Journal.
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Oct 13 · · Google Search
Google has begun testing ads for certain pharmaceutical products, including prescription drugs, within AI Mode and AI Overviews, a Google spokesperson…
Via Adweek ↗ · Oct 12 · · Google Search
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">A second firm finds AI Overviews on 82% of branded…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 12 · · AEO, Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Google has redesigned the Reader Revenue Manager homepage and expanded where subscriber content can appear: readers who subscribe or contribute through…
Via Google ↗ · Oct 9 · · Google Search, AEO, Tools & Vendors
A study by researchers Mingyue Zha and Ho-Chun Herbert Chang audited 1,920 health queries across 12 countries and 4 languages on Google and Baidu's AI…
Via arXiv AI Overviews & brand visibility ↗ · Sep 6 · · Research, AEO, Google Search
Google added documentation (spotted via a changelog diff on Oct. 8, date approximate) for a new UGC Fresh Data Program: a dedicated, authenticated…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Oct 8 · · Google Search
News/Media Alliance sent a letter to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on October 7 asking them to investigate Google's "site…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Oct 8 · · Law & Money, Google Search, SEO
Google is testing an "add to calendar" link on event dates inside some AI Overviews, per Search Engine Roundtable.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 7 · · Google Search, AEO
Google rolled out Nano Banana 2.1, its image generation and editing model, inside AI Mode in Search starting October 6, 2026.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 6 · · Google Search
Google's Search generative AI control documentation in Search Console now tells site owners that a top-level domain property will show a notification when…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 6 · · Google Search, AEO
Google AI Overviews now appear on 82.06% of branded search queries tracked by DemandSphere as of Sept. 29, up from 26.12% on Sept. 1 — a jump DemandSphere…
Via Semrush Blog ↗ · Oct 6 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
Self-ranking "best of" pages — where a company ranks itself first on its own comparison page — are showing up less often in Google AI Overviews, per an…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 5 · · Research, AEO, Google Search
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">Judge dismisses publishers' AI Overviews antitrust…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Oct 5 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
John Mueller and Martin Splitt of Google's Search Relations team said on the Oct. 1 episode of the "Search Off the Record" podcast that a sitemap's…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 5 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google will limit free Gemini app users to the lightweight Flash-Lite model starting October 9, cutting off their access to Flash, per a Google Help…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 4 · · Engines, Google Search
UK answer-engine agency Recrawled tested ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode with 1,608 queries about 40 UK B2B software firms, and…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Oct 4 · · AEO, Research, Google Search
Marketer Tom Pool spotted a ?stsource=aioverview parameter appended to links inside Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, posting screenshots to LinkedIn…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 2 · · Google Search
Google has updated its Merchant Center help documentation to mention AI Mode and Gemini for the first time in connection with Loyalty Customer Match, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 2 · · Google Search
AI Overviews appeared in 82.91% of US desktop Google results for branded keywords — any search containing a brand name — as of September 29, up from a…
Via Ahrefs Blog ↗ · Oct 2 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
A sitelinks-style ad format has been spotted within Google AI Mode results, shared by Anthony Higman and reported by Search Engine Roundtable on October…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 2 · · Google Search, AEO
Google updated its guide on using generative AI content, adding information drawn from the Search Quality Raters Guidelines, per an October 1 entry on the…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Oct 2 · · Google Search, SEO
The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a Data Portability Conduct Requirement on Google's general search services on June 17, 2026 — the same…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Oct 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust claims that Penske Media and Chegg brought against Google over AI Overviews, in a September 30 ruling.
Via Press Gazette AI ↗ · Oct 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Google's AI Overview panel now generates a full roster listing for some NFL team searches, appearing above or below the team's own site, per Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Oct 1 · · Google Search, AEO, SEO
Gemini has begun appending UTM parameters to the links it sends users to, a change first spotted on Reddit and confirmed by Google's John Mueller, who…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Oct 1 · · Google Search, Engines, Tools & Vendors
Testing roughly 100 large brand names, researcher Chris Long found AI Overviews appearing for 93% of them, per Search Engine Roundtable — including…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, AEO
Google is paying roughly 100 publishers less than 0.1% of their advertising revenue through its AI contribution pilot, The Information reported, per…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, Law & Money, AEO
Google's Search Console performance report help page now gives its Image, Video, and News search-type filters their own one-line definitions: traffic from…
Via Search Console performance report help ↗ · Sep 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google is testing a desktop AI Overviews layout that stacks citation cards below the answer instead of in the right-side panel, per Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 29 · · Google Search, AEO
Google has rolled out monitoring capabilities in AI Mode to all Search users globally, per Search Engine Roundtable.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 28 · · Google Search
A cross-lingual audit compared AI-generated overviews on Baidu and Google using English queries from the MS MARCO benchmark and their Chinese…
Via arXiv AI-search citations ↗ · Sep 21 · · Research, AEO, Google Search
Google says it will adopt the Universal Commerce Protocol's newly published Lodging Booking draft specification to power hotel booking in AI Mode "over…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 28 · · Google Search
Google is testing a "Loading..."
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 28 · · Google Search, AEO
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">Atlantic robots.txt allows GPTBot, Cloudflare blocks…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 28 · · AEO, Google Search, Engines
Ask YouTube is set to add product cards that send viewers directly to retailer sites, on top of the spec comparison tables the wire reported Sept. 23, per…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 27 · · Google Search, SEO
YouTube says use of Ask, its AI feature that answers viewer questions about the video on screen using a custom Gemini model, grew more than 500% from…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 27 · · Google Search, Engines
Google is testing a "Buy" button on select Flipkart product listings inside Gemini and AI Mode that routes shoppers straight to Flipkart's checkout, per…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Sep 27 · · Google Search
ChatGPT's weekly advertiser count rose 65% over eight weeks, from 7,306 in the week of July 9 to 12,075 by August 31 (peaking at 13,009 in early August)…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 25 · · Engines, Google Search, AEO
Google's VideoObject structured data documentation, updated Sept. 24, 2026, added a recommended creator property — a Person or Organization with name and…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Sep 25 · · Google Search, SEO
Google's Search Console performance report help page now splits the "Web" search-type filter into two defined categories: "text-based," for ordinary…
Via Search Console performance report help ↗ · Sep 24 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Google appears to be testing a new position for AI Overviews on hotel search results, moving them from the top of the page to beneath the hotel knowledge…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 24 · · Google Search, SEO
Ahrefs's Patrick Stox set ChatGPT's reported 2.5 billion prompts a day (July 2025) against Google's 13.7 billion daily searches, derived from the 5…
Via Ahrefs Blog ↗ · Feb 11 · · Research, Engines, Google Search
SparkToro and its clickstream partner Datos counted searches and AI prompt sessions on 41 search-heavy websites across Datos's 2025 desktop panel of…
Via SparkToro ↗ · Mar 2 · · Research, Google Search, Engines
YouTube added shopping features to Ask YouTube, the experimental conversational search tool it has been testing on watch pages and in search since earlier…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 23 · · Google Search, SEO
The UK Competition and Markets Authority published strengthened proposals for a "user choice conduct requirement" that would let Android and Chrome users…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Sep 23 · · Law & Money, Google Search, Engines
Google has begun emailing Merchant Center sellers whose store platform supports the Universal Commerce Protocol that their products are "automatically…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 22 · · Google Search, SEO
Google is testing anchor links inside AI Overviews that look like normal web links but instead open AI Mode with a follow-up question, rather than taking…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 22 · · Google Search, AEO
Black-hat SEOs are publishing public Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) pages as a parasite-SEO tactic, riding the product's domain authority into…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 22 · · Google Search, AEO
A preregistered field experiment by researchers at Northeastern University and the University of Pennsylvania — Stephanie Wang, Jeffrey Gleason, Yakov…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 21 · · Google Search, Research, SEO
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">El País blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot ·…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 21 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
A bug in Google's beta Web Guide keeps some users from exiting back to standard search results, per Search Engine Roundtable.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 20 · · Google Search, AEO
Google is testing a "Dive deeper" button in Discover that opens an AI-generated topic overview linking to related stories, Google's Robby Stein said Sept.…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 19 · · Google Search, AEO, SEO
A field experiment by Saharsh Agarwal (Indian School of Business) and Ananya Sen (Carnegie Mellon) randomly assigned 1,065 U.S. desktop searchers to see…
Via Digital Content Next ↗ · Sep 15 · · Google Search, Research, SEO
Google is testing an AI Mode button inside the search bar on its results page, not just the homepage, per Search Engine Roundtable.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 18 · · Google Search, AEO
Google Search Central documentation updated Sept. 18, 2026 says the aggregator unit and supplier unit — alternative Search result formats Google built for…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Sep 18 · · Google Search, SEO
Google is testing an AI Overview label atop local knowledge panels for Google Business Profiles, with a "Show more" button that expands into an AI…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 17 · · Google Search, SEO
The United Nations launched the UN System Data Commons on September 17, 2026, built on Google's open-source Data Commons framework with $2 million in…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Sep 17 · · Google Search, Research, AEO
Ahrefs tracked 963 high-traffic French domains through Google Search Console for 28 days before and 9 days after AI Overviews launched in France on July…
Via Ahrefs Blog ↗ · Sep 16 · · Google Search, AEO, SEO
Google Search Central published new documentation on Sept. 16, 2026 explaining how website owners, publishers, or creators with a Google Search profile…
Via Google Search Central documentation updates ↗ · Sep 16 · · Google Search
Google Image Search now suggests new folders or collections for images a user saves, flagged "suggested by AI" alongside a Gemini icon over the folder…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 16 · · Google Search
Google is piloting a program that pays a small group of publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to an AI-generated answer in Gemini, AI…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 14 · · Google Search, Law & Money, AEO
Google Search Live, the audio-and-video conversational search mode, now runs on Gemini 3.8 Live, Google's newest live-dialogue model, per Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 15 · · Google Search, Engines
<span class="preheader" style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fdfcf8;max-height:0;overflow:hidden">GEO content scores barely predict AI citations…
Via AEO Wire ↗ · Sep 14 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
Responding to a Reddit thread, Google's John Mueller said Search Console reports AI Overviews position "as a block" rather than for individual links…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 13 · · Google Search, AEO, Tools & Vendors
A University of Washington paper estimates Google's AI Overviews cut monthly search referrals to English Wikipedia by roughly 5% since the feature became…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 11 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Amazon Ads said it has partnered with OpenAI to let select U.S. advertisers buy ChatGPT Ads inventory through Amazon DSP, with Delta Vacations named as a…
Via Amazon Ads ↗ · Sep 10 · · Engines, Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Le Monde CEO Louis Dreyfus told INfluencia the outlet has seen no sudden audience decline roughly seven weeks after Google's AI Overviews launched in…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 10 · · Google Search, SEO
Publishers in Similarweb's Top 100 Media index spent an estimated $113 million on Google paid search in July 2026, up 41% year over year and 274% over…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 10 · · Google Search, SEO
Google has added three new sections to Merchant Center's AI Performance Insights report: AI Search Intent, showing how products match AI searches; AI…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 9 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, AEO
Two independent trackers report Google's People Also Ask boxes are now almost entirely answered by AI Overviews.
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 9 · · Google Search, Research
Google Ads' Gemini-powered dashboards — which turn a text prompt into an automated data visualization and explanatory summary — are now live for some…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 8 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 8 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 8 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 7 · · Google Search, SEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 4 · · Google Search
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…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Sep 4 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Sep 3 · · Law & Money, Google Search
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 3 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 3 · · Research, Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Sep 2 · · Google Search, Engines
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…
Via Advanced Web Ranking ↗ · Aug 31 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
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…
Via Google Search Central ↗ · Sep 1 · · Google Search, SEO, AEO
Google's Search Console documentation now says the Search generative AI control — the setting that removes a site from AI Overviews, AI Mode and…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 31 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 31 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 31 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Growth Memo (Kevin Indig) ↗ · Aug 31 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Google has confirmed that AI Overviews can expand to their full length automatically for some queries, without the "Show more" click, pushing traditional…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 28 · · Google Search, AEO
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"…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 28 · · Google Search, AEO
Google added three travel features to AI Mode in Search: hotel search and booking through partners including Booking.com, Expedia and Marriott, with…
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Aug 27 · · Google Search
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…
Via Google Search Console Help ↗ · Aug 27 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 26 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Google has rolled out developing-topic link carousels inside AI Mode, showing article cards with images, headlines, sources and publish dates for trending…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 25 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 25 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Growth Memo (Kevin Indig) ↗ · Aug 24 · · Research, Google Search, SEO
Google AI Overviews expanded into the finance category in April 2026, shifting query volume toward ticker lookups, according to a BrightEdge analysis of…
Via BrightEdge Blog ↗ · Aug 24 · · Google Search, AEO, 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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 24 · · Google Search, AEO
Google added experimentation and planning features to AI Max for Search campaigns on August 21, including multi-campaign A/B testing arriving in…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 22 · · Engines, Google Search
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 21 · · Google Search, AEO, Research
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…
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Aug 20 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 19 · · Google Search, AEO
Google rolled out AI-powered study features across Search and Gemini on August 19, timed to the U.S. school year.
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Aug 19 · · Google Search, Engines
Google made Gemini in Chrome available to all Android users in the U.S. on August 18, 2026, per the company's own announcement.
Via Google Keyword Blog ↗ · Aug 18 · · Engines, Google Search
Google has stopped generating AI images inside AI Overviews for recipe results, Robby Stein, the company's vice president of product, told Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 17 · · Google Search, SEO
Google is showing AI Overviews-style summaries within local pack results on some searches, and those summaries often draw on low-quality, self-promotional…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 12 · · Google Search, AEO
Google has started showing AI-generated images within AI Overviews in Google Search, Search Engine Roundtable reported, about a month after Google said it…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 14 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 14 · · Google Search, Engines
The Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG), representing nearly 300 French newspapers, filed a complaint with France's competition authority…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 11 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
Google is testing new "Create images," "Ask about files," and "Brainstorm" buttons below the search box on its desktop home page, per Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 10 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 8 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Google's Gemini assistant can now edit Google Business Profile listings for accounts managing multiple locations, expanding a feature that launched in…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 7 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors
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…
Via Growth Memo (Kevin Indig) ↗ · Aug 6 · · Research, Google Search, AEO
Google spokesperson Jennifer Kutz told The Verge that Reddit "gets no special preference" in Google Search or its AI search features, per Search Engine…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Aug 5 · · Google Search, AEO
Google will remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, and paired devices like smartwatches and headphones starting September 4, 2026, per an…
Via The Verge AI ↗ · Aug 5 · · Engines, Google Search
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…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Engines, Google 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…
Via Google AI features documentation ↗ · Jun 15 · · Google Search, AEO, SEO
Search Console's platform properties — which let Instagram, TikTok, X and YouTube accounts be verified as first-class properties and show how their posts…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Jul 30 · · Google Search, Tools & Vendors, SEO
The UK Competition and Markets Authority imposed a Publisher Conduct Requirement on Google on June 3, 2026, under its digital markets regime — a legally…
Via UK CMA (Google-filtered) ↗ · Jul 29 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
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"…
Via Ars Technica AI ↗ · Aug 1 · · Law & Money, Google Search
Google's official account responded on X to complaints that an AI Overview gave different answers to near-identical searches asking whether it's…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 30 · · Google Search
An analysis by NewzDash founder John Shehata, reported by Search Engine Journal, finds Google now places Top Stories carousels inside AI Overviews on…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 28 · · Google Search, SEO
AI Overviews surfaced in 43% of Google searches, up from 15% a year earlier, according to a Similarweb analysis reported by TechCrunch.
Via TechCrunch AI ↗ · Jul 27 · · Google Search, Research, SEO
Google's AI & Economy ATLAS report, built with Google DeepMind researchers, compared 14.65 million Gemini app, AI Mode and Gemini API conversations from…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 25 · · Research, Google Search, AEO
Google's AI Overviews support documentation states that signed-in users' search interactions, alongside feedback and human review, are used to improve…
Via Google AI Overviews documentation ↗ · Jul 24 · · Google Search, AEO, Law & Money
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 &…
Via Google Ads Blog ↗ · May 20 · · Google Search, AEO
Alphabet reported Q2 Search revenue of $63.27 billion, up 17% year over year — the first deceleration after four quarters of accelerating growth, with…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 23 · · Law & Money, Google Search
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 22 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 21 · · Google Search, SEO
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…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 20 · · Google Search, 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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 22 · · Google Search, Engines
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…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 16 · · Google Search
Google search executive Nick Fox says AI features in Search now send billions of clicks to websites each week; no methodology accompanied the claim.
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 17 · · Google Search, SEO
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…
Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Jul 17 · · Google Search, AEO
Google's Search Central announced performance reporting for generative-AI search experiences in Search Console, giving sites first-party impression and…
Via Google Search Central Blog ↗ · Jun 3 · · Google Search, AEO
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…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Jul 17 · · Google Search
