Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute found that Google's AI Overview and AI Mode tools failed to provide appropriate crisis resources in 42% and 23% of mental health queries, respectively, w…
A new Common Sense Media report rates Google Search's AI Overviews and AI Mode as "Unacceptable Risk" for children, finding that the AI completed homework, generated inaccurate information, offered de…
Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin clarified that advertisers must continue using Google's AI-powered targeting solutions, including Broad Match, Performance Max, and AI Max, to make ads eligible for AI …
Google added generative AI performance reports to Search Console, placing AI visibility data alongside traditional search metrics to signal that AI visibility is search visibility, not a separate disc…
Google data reveals AI Mode search queries are now triple the length of traditional queries, with follow-up queries growing 40% monthly and multimodal interactions accounting for over one in six searc…
Google launched a new visual treatment in AI Mode that places prominent links to recipe sites at the top of responses for relevant recipe queries, including images, creator names, ratings, and ingredi…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and SVP Nick Fox confirmed that Google Search is evolving into an agent manager, where information-seeking queries become agentic and tasks are completed within Search. Fox st…
Google Search Advocate John Mueller explained that the new Search Console generative AI report counts an impression only when a link to a site is shown in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and if a link requir…
Search Engine Journal reported that SEO teams struggle to track AI citations across multiple engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, with data scattered across six to twelve non-integrating tool…
Search Engine Journal will host a webinar on July 1, 2025, featuring Writesonic CEO Sam Garg, who will share lessons from building AI agents to track citations across six AI engines including ChatGPT,…
Google has slightly increased the height of the Pixel Launcher search bar and enlarged the Lens, voice search, and AI Mode icons in version 17.32 of the Google app. The change, now widely available on…
Google's AI Mode, with one billion monthly active users, sends visitors who have already researched and decided, yet most websites remain built for undecided browsers. Adobe data shows AI-referred tra…
A new integrated search brief framework aims to align SEO, PPC, and content teams in the AI search era, addressing siloed efforts and complex search results. The approach starts with a shared business…
Google has started rolling out Search agents in AI Mode for AI Ultra subscribers, enabling 24/7 background monitoring of web content to deliver synthesized updates on user-specified topics, such as ne…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority ordered Google to allow news publishers to opt out of having their content scraped for AI training and search features, marking what the regulator called a "wo…
Google is testing a hidden feature in Chrome Canary that redirects search queries directly to AI Mode, bypassing traditional search results and blue links. The experimental flag, discovered by Windows…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced that bot traffic has surpassed human traffic on the internet, years earlier than his 2027 prediction, driven by a surge in AI agents. Prince stated the web's fu…
DuckDuckGo reported an 18.1% average weekly increase in U.S. app installs from May 20 to May 25, with growth peaking at 30.5% on May 25, following Google’s announcement of plans to introduce an AI-pow…
Google has introduced an opt-out toggle in Search Console allowing website operators to exclude their content from AI search features like AI Overviews and AI Mode, which reach over 3.5 billion monthl…
The U.K. has imposed legal guardrails on Google's AI search features, requiring the tech giant to offer publishers an opt-out toggle for generative AI results. Google announced compliance Wednesday, a…