Google Search, SEO & AI
News, research, updates and analysis about Google Search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, ranking systems, indexing and the evolution of search.
Google Shopping Ads Are Turning Recent Sales Into a Visible Trust Signal
Google is testing or surfacing a Shopping ad treatment that turns recent purchase volume into something shoppers can see before they click.A product ad has been spotted displaying....
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Google Gives Businesses Four Days to Review User-Suggested Profile Changes
Google is giving some business owners a much clearer deadline for responding when users suggest changes to their Business Profiles.A new email notification asks, “Does this look ri...
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Google Business Profile Insights May Be Missing Eight Days of Data
Some Google Business Profile owners may be looking at an empty September dashboard even though their businesses have continued operating normally.Google Business Profile Insights a...
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Google AI Mode Is Turning Search Into a Paginated Conversation
Google is testing a version of AI Mode that makes a search session look less like a results page and more like a conversation with pages.A new experiment adds pagination to success...
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Google Is Testing a Smaller Citation Panel Inside AI Overviews
Google is testing another redesign of the links that connect AI-generated answers back to the websites that supplied their supporting information. This time, the citation area is g...
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Google Search Is Testing a Way to Follow Users Outside the Browser
Google is testing a version of Search that no longer waits for users to return to the browser.In Chrome Canary for Windows, an experimental feature known as the “Everywhere Omnibox...
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Google Is Stripping Real-Time Prices From European Search Results to Comply With the DMA
Google Search is becoming deliberately less feature-rich in Europe as the company tries to satisfy the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.Google has begun rolling out a substanti...
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Google’s Gary Illyes Puts AI Search Measurement and New SEO KPIs on the Agenda
SEO’s next major problem may not be how to optimize for AI search. It may be how to measure whether any of that optimization is working.That question is explicitly on the agenda to...
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Publishers Can Leave Google AI Search Without Leaving Google Search — but Is the Opt-Out Really Fair?
Google has finally given publishers something they have demanded since AI-generated answers began moving to the top of search results: a way to leave Google’s generative AI search....
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Google Turns AdSense Support Into an AI Conversation—With an Accuracy Disclaimer
Google has turned a major part of AdSense support into a conversation with AI—and attached an unusually direct warning to the experience.On September 3, Google announced that its A...
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Google Lets Traditional Exact-Match Search Ads Enter AI Mode
Google is testing a notable expansion of who can advertise inside AI Mode. Standard Search campaigns using exact- and phrase-match keywords can now serve text ads in Google’s conve...
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