Google AI Mode finally rolling out to all users in the U.S.
Google announced at I/O, three weeks ago, AI Mode will roll out to all US users and now that seems to be happening.
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Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search serving issues
Google confirmed an issue with serving content across numerous surfaces for some users. May be part of the Google Cloud outage.
Google to drop support for several rich result types to simplify the search results page
Specifically these will no longer be supported; Book Actions, Course Info, Claim Review, Estimated Salary, Learning Video, Special Announcement and Vehicle Listing.
Reddit uses AI to translate millions of pages and Google’s OK with it
Google also removed the section in their help docs on using the robots.txt to block all automatically translated pages.
Google offers buyouts to Search and Ads units
Google sent out an internal email offering a "voluntary exit program" to U.S. based employees, according to reports.
Google adds loyalty programs support to organization structured data
This will enable you to show your special membership pricing in Google Search, espesially if you don't use Merchant Center to send Google this data.
Bug with Google Search Console Discover performance report
If you noticed your Discover report showing a huge drop in impressions and clicks, you are not alone - it seems like a bug.
Google updates event and recipe structured data
Google removed the online event properties, added new examples and also said recipe image markup doesn't influence which image is chosen.
Google Ads API v20 adds more negative keywords, DemandGen upgrades and more
To use some of the v20 features, you must upgrade your client libraries and client code, Google explained.
Google updated its ranking algorithms for explicit videos and explicit content
Google has released new best practices, video bytes and what to do if your site was flagged incorrectly, as well.
To show in Google AI Mode & AI Overviews, your page must be indexed
But being indexed, does not guarantee your pages will show within these AI results.
Google Lens coming to YouTube Shorts
Google said that during the beta period, there won't be any ads.
Google Search Console to show AI Mode performance but you won’t be able to break it out
The data is not yet live in the Performance reports, it is coming and like AI Overviews, you won't be able to break it out from other Google surfaces.
The future of SEO as the future Google Search rolls out
With AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini becoming the future of Google Search - where does that leave SEO.
Why is Google’s AI Mode tab is always on the left
Other search options and modes dynamically move and change based on the query but AI Mode is consistently on the left.
Google AI Overviews expand to more users
Google's AI-generated answers are now available in 200+ countries and territories and in more than 40 languages.
Google launches AI Mode to all U.S. searchers with new features
Deep Search, complex analysis, data visualization and more features roll out in Google AI Mode, some in Search Labs.
IndexNow helps with faster indexing of product updates and shopping ads
Plus, Amazon and Shopify both now support IndexNow.
Google Business Profiles launches ‘What’s Happening’
Google said the 'What's Happening' feature puts timely updates front and center, 'driving immediate engagement.'
Google updates image SEO best practices to say use the same image URL for same image across your pages
Some sites may use a different image file name URL for an image they use on multiple pages, Google says not to do this to save with your crawl budget.
Jerry Dischler leaves Google after nearly 20 years
Jerry Dischler was the former Google Ads boss, who recently stepped down from that position.
Google says it is 20 times better at catching scams in Google Search
And is able to block more than 80% of fake phone number scams within Google Search.
Google Analytics real time reporting buggy?
Is your real-time reporting lower than usual? It's not just you. Many websites are noticing weird GA4 real-time data right now.
Google Al Mode being tested outside of labs, drops waitlist, adds product and place cards & history panel
Google is getting serious with AI Mode by adding new features but also testing it in the wild.
Google disables Discover performance report hack to get desktop data
For the past day or so, there was a way to see how Google Discover was performing over desktop and mobile - but Google disabled that this morning.
OpenAI adds shopping features to ChatGPT Search
This works for categories on fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics. Plus, improved citations, WhatsApp Search and trending and autocomplete were added.
Video Previews come to Google Business Profile verification
This will let you review your video verification video before you submit it.
Google Ads to show ads in the top ads position, also in the bottom ads position
Google said it updated its unfair advantage policy to allow for this and says this is not considered double serving.
Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com
Google will gradually roll out this change over the coming months.
Google officially rolls out links in AI Overviews to its own search results
After testing this for a month, Google officially rolled out this method to help searchers explore more topics.
Google Search Analytics API gains hourly break down for past 10 days
Initially we were expecting 8 days of data, but Google gave us 2 more days of hourly data for the performance reports API.
Google to expand Discover to Google’s desktop homepage
Google has been testing this for years, but kicked up its testing over the past several days.
Google Search Console updates its Merchant opportunities report
This was previously named the Search Console Shopping tab listings report.
Google AI Mode lets you ask questions with images
Google added multimodal capabilities to AI Mode, and expanded access beyond Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Google credits Gemini for better detection of fake business reviews and maps spam
Google took down over 240 million policy-violating reviews from 2024, that's 40% more than the previous year.
Microsoft officially launches Copilot Search in Bing
After testing this for a couple of months, the new way to see curated answers in Bing Search is live.
Google working on restoring Local Service Ads advertiser console
Advertisers have been complaining all day about being unable to manage their LSAs.
Data providers: Google March 2025 core update had similar volatility to the previous update
Now that the March 2025 core update is done rolling out, we can compare it to the previous core updates - and it seemed pretty similar to the December 2024 core update.
Google drops AI while browsing feature
This feature allowed you to, while browsing a webpage, ask Google to generate key points from the page.
Google March 2025 core update rollout is now complete
This update took 14 days to roll out and was a typical Google core update.