Google added dedicated Generative AI performance reports to Search Console, giving site owners a first-party view of how often their pages appear in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and generative AI features i…
The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) project added a draft Lodging Booking specification to its GitHub repository on Sept. 25, and Google's developer documentation states the company plans to adopt t…
Google announced at its May 19, 2026 I/O event that Search is becoming an agent platform, with VP of Search Elizabeth Reid calling it "the era of Search agents." The rollout adds persistent informatio…
Google is automatically enabling native checkout for eligible Google Merchant Center products whose Shopify storefronts support the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), letting customers buy directly in…
Google Discover is testing a "Dive deeper" feature that routes clicks to an AI-generated topic overview with links to Google itself rather than to publisher articles, according to Search Engine Roundt…
Google is testing anchor links inside AI Overviews that route users into AI Mode rather than to external web pages, according to SEO practitioner Gagan Ghotra, who posted a video of the behavior on X …
Google is testing a "Dive deeper" experience in Discover that inserts an AI-generated topic overview between a Discover card and the publisher content a user might otherwise open, starting with video …
Google is running an invitation-only pilot that pays publishers whose content meaningfully contributes to answers in AI Mode, AI Overviews and Gemini, with monthly payments surfaced in a Search Consol…
Google added a Generative AI performance report to Search Console that shows how often site pages appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode, measuring only impressions with no clicks, click-through rate, or …
Google is piloting a program that pays participating publishers when their content "contributes significantly" to answers in the Gemini app, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, with at least dozens of publishe…
AI agent products can be classified on a four-position "intent dial" — answer, obey, interpret, and amend — where each position determines who absorbs the cost of a wrong guess, according to an analys…
Google launched an AI contribution pilot that pays publishers for the use of their content in Gemini, AI Mode and AI Overviews, according to Search Engine Roundtable's weekly recap. The same recap rep…
Google is testing an AI Mode button inside the search bar on the search results page, expanding the button's placement beyond the home page and other surfaces, according to Search Engine Roundtable. T…
Google has begun attaching AI Overview labels to local knowledge panels built from Google Business Profile data, with a "Show more" button that expands into an AI Mode-style chat interface, according …
Google globally launched dedicated performance reports for its generative AI search features on September 16, 2026, alongside a new toggle letting publishers opt out of having their content used as gr…
Google Search Advocate John Mueller said position and impression tracking for AI Mode, AI Overviews and Google Search will "evolve over time" as those products evolve, writing on LinkedIn in response …
Google is running a small test, called the AI contribution pilot, that pays publishers for the use of their content in AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini and other AI search features, according to Search E…
Google is testing new query expansion methods in AI Mode beyond standard follow-up questions, including multi-selection tools, a query refinement option, and paginated responses, according to Search E…
Google search advocate John Mueller acknowledged that Search Console's reporting for AI search is inadequate, agreeing with a Reddit critique that AI Overviews impression and position metrics are misl…
A SparkToro clickstream study found that 68% of U.S. Google searches in 2026 end without a click to the open web, up from 49% in 2019, reflecting a decade-long shift toward zero-click and multimodal s…