Google is testing a text-based link format for ads within AI Mode. So the ads look like normal AI Mode responses, with normal looking text links with anchor text, but they are labeled as "Sponsored" ...

As you know, Google has new features in many European regions to promote vertical search services (VSS) by way of the Digital Markets Act. Many of those changes have been live for a while, but now the ...

I've been pretty quiet on posting reports Google updates recently, in fact, I have not posted about one since late August.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is testing a way to pay publishers for using ...

Google continues to test new query expansion methods in AI Mode, beyond standard follow-up questions. Now Google is testing ...

Google is doing a small test where it is paying publishers for using their content within the Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ...

Google's John Mueller said it is normal for Google Search to take a while to update image thumbnails in its search results ...

Google Ads has a new beta named Product Value Optimization that allows advertisers to configure value adjustments to guide automated bidding to optimize for the products that matter for your business ...

If you conduct a blank search on Google Search, you will get an AI Overview that says "...nuts? 🥜" It seems like one of ...

Google is now answering nearly 100% of all people also asked questions with AI Overviews. 14 months ago, it was only at about ...

Yesterday, for a short period of time, Console was reporting pages as not being indexed and in the status of "Crawled - ...

Google Analytics is rolling out dashboards where you can create your own custom dashboards using Google Analytics data. Google explains that you can "create custom visualizations to quickly pull ...