Google released Nano Banana 2.1, its latest image generation and editing model, which is already working within AI Mode in Google Search, according to Search Engine Roundtable's October 7, 2026 recap.…
Google released Nano Banana 2.1, its latest image generation and editing model, and it is already rolling out in AI Mode in Google Search, according to Robby Stein, Google's VP of Product in Search. G…
Two GEO experiments conducted by Zeeshan Yaseen and reported by Search Engine Land found that roughly 85–86% of AI citations came from earned third-party placements, while only about 14% came from bra…
Google officially appealed the European Commission's Digital Markets Act mandate requiring it to share search history data with competitors, saying the decision would force it to share people's privat…
Google is rolling out information monitoring in AI Mode to all users globally, Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, announced in a post on X Monday. The feature continuously checks sites, for…
A developer detailed the true cost of building in-house AI answer-collection infrastructure, arguing the expense is engineering time and ongoing maintenance rather than API fees. The writeup breaks do…
A preregistered field experiment with 1,100 US participants found that routing all searches into Google AI Mode cut external publisher clicks by 18.8 percentage points versus standard Google Search, w…
YouTube was the most-cited platform across eight AI platforms — Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok — in August, according to Meltwater data repo…
Google is expanding shopping capabilities across Gemini, AI Mode and its Shopping Graph, according to I/O 2026 materials that describe agentic shopping experiences, Buy buttons on eligible product lis…
Semrush released an expanded 2026 AI Visibility Index analyzing 126 million AI search prompts, finding that the brands AI systems mention and the websites they cite frequently diverge. Across ChatGPT …
AI visibility platforms cannot produce an "accurate" share-of-voice number because no ground-truth figure exists, according to an analysis by ipullrank's Mike King, who cites one client seeing 41% fro…
Semrush published a mini study within its AI Visibility Index initiative comparing how AI platforms cite sources for Your Money or Your Life (YMYL) queries versus everyday commercial queries. The rese…
A developer built AuditMe, a website intelligence platform, and analyzed three months of first-party Google Search Console data alongside a separate AI-performance export, finding 116,181 Google Searc…
Google Search showed a sharp spike in ranking volatility on September 15, 2026, with Search Engine Roundtable reporting heavy forum chatter and early tool movement that suggests an unconfirmed update …
A developer ran the same 47 buying questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode on the same day and classified every citation across the resulting 141 answers, finding Perplexity averaged …
A March 31, 2026 analysis by Peec AI found that Reddit, YouTube, and LinkedIn are among the most-cited domains in AI-generated search answers across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, and Go…
Search Engine Land's analysis of repeated ChatGPT runs, published in February 2026, shows that AI-generated responses are non-deterministic, with different brands and sources surfacing across runs of …
Semrush's mini study reveals that ChatGPT and Google AI Mode create different brand visibility landscapes, with ChatGPT tending to surface a broader set of brands and sources while Google AI Mode focu…
Google Search ranking volatility continued this week following its spam update, and Google confirmed it is rolling out google.com/goto tracking parameters to replace direct links in search results to …
Only 2.8% of the 1,851 sources cited by Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, and Perplexity in Shero Commerce's analysis of purchasing queries across 60 product categories were brand-owned pages, with third-party…