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Google Search Live video goes live and AI Mode uploads, Canvas and Lens in Chrome
Google announced a number of new AI features for AI Mode and Search Live today.
Google releases AI Mode in the UK
The third country to get AI Mode in Google Search is the United Kingdom.
Google Web Guide for AI organized search results
This is a search labs experiment, opt in only now, for the web tab within Google Search.
Google says normal SEO works for ranking in AI Overviews and LLMS.txt won’t be used
Google said it won't be crawling your LLMS.txt files and just do normal SEO if you want to rank in its AI Overviews.
Google launches Google Trends API
This is a limited Alpha release, so only a small number of people will gain access to this tool.
Data providers: Google June 2025 core update was a big update
Google's June core update overall was a bigger update; where some sites hit by the previous helpful content and reviews updates some partial recoveries.
Google homepage search box rolling out AI Mode button
It seems Google is adding an AI Mode button to the Google home page. Google has been testing this for a couple months now.
Google June 2025 core update rollout is now complete
This is the second core update of 2025 and it took over 16 days to complete.
Google Search adds Gemini 2.5 Pro, AI Deep Search, and agentic local calling
Gemini 2.5 Pro powers Google’s AI Mode and Deep Search, while new agentic features let Search call local businesses to check prices.
Google Search Console adds 24-hour comparison views to performance reports
You can access these new views under the comparison section.
Google updates local ranking documentation
Are these changes signaling changes to how Google local rankings work or did Google just clarify its existing document.
Google Search Analytics API new fields for incomplete data points
Now the API will report when the data is incomplete - a useful feature when integrating the Search Console API with your toolsets.
Google Search Console adds Discussion forums search appearance filter
Google has long supported Discussion forums rich results but now you can report on those search results.
Google AI Mode available in India without sign-in
Just two weeks ago, Google launched AI Mode within Search Labs - now Google made it available to all, without sign-in.
Google June 2025 core update rolling out now
This is the second core update of 2025 and this update will take about 3 weeks to complete.
Google releases new Search Console Insights report
It is now also a new tab within Google Search Console.
Google penalties: Advanced detection, recovery, and prevention strategies
Learn how to identify a Google penalty, fix manual and algorithmic actions, and protect your site from future SEO penalties with expert-level strategies.
Google Search tests “Preferred Sources” for Top Stories
Clicking on the star icon will show more news content from that site in Google Search. It is a Search Labs feature, and opt in right now.
Google updates its URL structure best practices document with added examples
There was no change to how Google Search handles URLs with this document update.
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.