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 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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Google’s Sponsored Results Label Is Sometimes Misaligned—and It Looks Like a SERP Bug
A small visual inconsistency in Google's Search results is drawing attention because it affects one of the most important pieces of disclosure on the page: the heading that tells u...
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Google Ads Can Now Separate Loyalty-Program Members in Performance Reports
Google Ads is making loyalty customers easier to isolate inside campaign reporting, giving ecommerce advertisers a clearer view of how their existing membership base performs compa...
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Google Ads Can Now Separate Loyalty-Program Members in Performance Reports
Google Ads is making loyalty customers easier to isolate inside campaign reporting, giving ecommerce advertisers a clearer view of how their existing membership base performs compa...
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Google Shopping Ads Are Testing Live Countdown Labels for Expiring Deals
Google is experimenting with a new way to make urgency visible directly inside Shopping ads: a live countdown telling shoppers how long an offer has left. A Shopping result spotted...
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Google Says “Expand or Create a New Page?” Has No Universal SEO Answer
One of the most common content-architecture questions in SEO sounds as if it should have a definitive answer: when an existing page needs more depth but one part of the topic could...
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