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 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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Low-Value Programmatic SEO Can Make Google Lose Trust in Your Entire Site
Google’s John Mueller has issued one of his clearest warnings yet about the sitewide consequences of low-value programmatic SEO: publishing large numbers of pages that provide only...
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Most Top AI Citations Don’t Rank on Google’s First Page
Ranking on Google’s first page is still one of the strongest advantages a webpage can have. But a new AI-search study shows that the pages occupying the most prominent citation pos...
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Strong Google Rankings Don’t Guarantee AI Citations
PagePilot.ai had a problem that would have sounded contradictory a few years ago: its SEO was working, but AI search barely seemed to notice. The Shopify landing-page platform ent...
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Google Shipped an AI Mode Model That Temporarily Stopped Linking to Publishers
Google’s rollout of Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode briefly created exactly the kind of failure publishers fear from generative search: the AI could answer questions while providing....
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Indexed Doesn’t Mean Visible: Publishers See Articles Vanish From Google News
For news publishers, seeing a fresh article indexed in Google Search usually removes one major diagnostic concern: Google has found the URL, crawled it and made it available in the...
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