The European Commission adopted two binding decisions requiring Google to share anonymized Search data with rival search engines and open parts of Android to competing AI assistants under the Digital …
AI tools returned at least one false fact about 64% of UK high street retailers in a vendor-run test, according to figures Searchable shared with Retail Focus. The most common error was placing busine…
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot connect directly to a marketer's live data sources—analytics, CMS, search data—en…
AI search visibility tools that count how often a model mentions a brand in response to prompts are measuring the wrong number, according to technical SEO consultant Jono Alderson and data from the No…
Google has rebranded NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, updating its user agent to Google-GeminiNotebook, which site owners must block via firewall or .htaccess rules to prevent AI scraping of their conte…
Google SVP Nick Fox said AI features in Search send billions of clicks to websites weekly, alongside the company's existing claim that Search sends billions of clicks daily. Fox posted the figures on …
Three publishers, novelist Scott Turow, and his company S.C.R.I.B.E. filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Google on July 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a…
Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rebuilding the Google Images homepage, both timed to the service's 25th anniversary. Google Search Advocate John Mueller responded to a plan to…
Avinash Kaushik, chief strategy officer at Human Made Machine and former Google executive, says marketers should renegotiate agency contracts this month and expect savings of 25% to 75% on existing sc…
Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro is months behind schedule as the company struggles to improve its coding capabilities, Bloomberg reported, citing ten current and former employees. Google said in May it expect…
One in five off-page citations in AI search answers comes from Reddit, a share growing 30% year over year, according to Amanda Kusner, Senior Solutions Consultant at Uberall, and Peter Wischmann, Seni…
Google is rolling out connected apps in AI Mode for Search in the U.S. this week, allowing users to send searches directly to Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music. The feature, announced by senior prod…
A Bluesky user named @danabra.mov reported that writing highly specific, insightful blog posts led to their content being cited by Claude AI, with the AI condensing and occasionally explicitly referen…
Google is using a Search Console update that tracks social media and video performance to mask the click loss caused by AI-generated search summaries, according to a Search Engine Journal analysis. Th…
Google has connected its AI Mode Personal Intelligence feature to Google Calendar, allowing the AI to add invites or meetings directly to a user's calendar and tailor responses based on their schedule…
Google Analytics 4's new AI Assistant channel, launched May 13, 2026, undercounts AI traffic by splitting a single source like chatgpt.com across three channels (AI Assistant, Referral, and Unassigned…
TikTok will test improved detection systems for AI-generated spam accounts posting about politics, financial advice, and medical topics, the company announced in a newsroom post. The testing, set to b…
Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews using its Nano Banana model and redesigning the Google Images homepage for its 25th anniversary, announced Brad Kellet, Senior Engineering Director…
Programmatic AI content initiatives are stalling or triggering Google penalties because they violate the search engine's crawl budget and indexing thresholds, according to an analysis by Search Engine…
Agentic commerce is reshaping Google Ads in 2026 as AI agents reduce the friction of buying, leading to an 11% decline in ad impressions year-over-year, according to Optmyzr's Q1 2026 benchmark report…