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 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 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 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
