Google Search, SEO & AI
News, research, updates and analysis about Google Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, ranking systems, indexing and the evolution of search.
Search Console Lost Part of Its June Indexing History—and Google Says the Missing Data Won’t Be Backfilled
Google Search Console has lost a substantial section of historical June 2026 data from its Page indexing report, and Google's current explanation is unusually definitive about one....
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Google Ads Can Now Turn a Plain-English Prompt Into a Live Performance Dashboard
Google Ads is beginning to put Gemini directly between advertisers and their performance data. Some accounts are now showing the AI-powered Dashboards Google previewed earlier this...
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Google Shopping Ads Are Adding Weekly Sales Counts as Social Proof
Google is showing a new kind of social proof inside some Shopping ads: a recent sales count telling shoppers how many units of a product were sold during the previous week. The for...
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Google Now Documents Which Search Features—and Visibility Opportunities—Change by Region
Google has published a new Search Central reference that makes an increasingly important fact about modern search explicit: the opportunities available on a results page can change...
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Google AI Mode Is Testing an Endless Search Journey Built From Automatic Follow-Up Queries
Google is testing a new AI Mode interface that can turn a user's response into another search query inside the same conversation, then move through additional questions and answers...
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Google Is Testing a Less Visible Citation Panel Inside AI Overviews
Google is testing a noticeably narrower citation panel on the right side of some AI Overviews, compressing the visual space given to the sources and links that support the generate...
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Google Business Profile Insights Are Finally Back After September’s Reporting Gap
Google Business Profile performance data for September is beginning to reappear after several days in which business owners and local search professionals were seeing an empty mont...
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AI Overviews May Have Cost Wikipedia 100 Million Search Referrals a Month—but Google Disputes the Method
A heavily revised University of Washington working paper estimates that Google's AI Overviews reduced external-search referrals to English Wikipedia by roughly 5% after the feature...
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Google AdSense Can Now Automatically Choose the Consent Message Most Likely to Protect Revenue
Google AdSense is automating two of the most operationally sensitive parts of publisher consent management: making sure a consent message appears when the normal CMP flow fails, an...
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Google Merchant Center Now Lets Retailers Upload Product Videos Directly
Google Merchant Center is giving retailers a more direct way to bring video into their product marketing. A newly spotted “Product videos” section allows merchants to upload produc...
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Google Ads Is Testing Cross-Campaign Reach and Frequency Controls for Video and Demand Gen
Google Ads is beta testing a new campaign-group structure that could give video advertisers something they have long struggled to manage cleanly: reach and frequency across several...
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