Google begins testing AI Mode while rolling out Gemini 2.0 AI Overviews
Plus, AI Overviews are now available to more searchers, including teenagers.
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Google AI Overviews now showing on more Google Lens results
Plus, Google iOS app now can search the screen you are reading.
Google Search testing ‘AI Mode’
Google is reportedly internally testing a new feature called 'AI Mode', which is a new way to ask open-ended and exploratory questions.
Google AI Overviews now with detailed shopping comparisons
Google Search will provide a very detailed comparison of two products within its AI Overviews.
Google Search launches Ask for me
This is a new labs experiment where Google AI calls businesses to find out what they charge for a service & when it’s available.
Google Search makes it easier to search without personalization
Google Search now labels if the results are personalized and gives you a quick way to turn off personalization.
Google Lens for in-store and local shopping
Now just point and shoot a photo and get prices, reviews, product details and more while looking at products in a retail store.
Google Gemini app now available for iPhone users
Previously only available as a standalone app on Android, and available within the iOS Google app - now it is a standalone app for iOS users.
Google expands AI Overviews to over 100 countries
This will bring AI Overviews to over 1 billion users and should work in any of the currently supported languages.
Google Search completely kills the cache feature
9 months after Google dropped the cache link and 2 weeks after Google added the Wayback Machine links, the cache operator has fully stopped working.
Google Search adds Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine links to about this page
This comes after Google dropped the cache link from the search results.
Google Search testing new display for forum content
This new user interface shows top comments and related discussions around that forum search result snippet.
Google Trends email subscriptions to stop working on October 29
This comes shortly after Google updated the user interface for the trending now results.
Google AI Overviews now show for signed-out users in the US
You no longer need to be logged in to see AI Overviews in the US, Google confirmed this is rolled out to all US searchers.
Google AI Overviews gains new citations and links, plus more
Google is also rolling out AI Overviews in United Kingdom, India, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil and expanding Search labs features and availability.
Google gives new look for trending now section of Google Trends
The new design fits more trending keywords and gives you a nicer and more actionable interface to do your research with.
Google updates deepfakes search algorithms and controls and expands About this image
Google is making it easier to remove deepfakes and also expands About this image to Circle to Search and Google Lens.
Google ending Notes on Search by end of the month
Google launched Notes in Search 8 months ago as a labs experiment - that experiment ends today.
Google testing AI Overviews with link cards at the top
This makes clicking to publishers and content creators way more likely than the current version of AI Overviews.
Google Chrome mobile adds local places to Chrome Actions
Searchers with this Chrome Action enabled can quickly call, get directions and read reviews from the Chrome search bar.
How will generative AI impact website rankings and traffic?
Understand how Google's AI Overviews are influencing website traffic and the challenges and opportunities for maintaining visibility online.
Google dropping continuous scroll in search results
Continuous scroll launched in Google mobile search in October 2021 and on desktop in December 2022.
Google explains how it is improving its AI Overviews
Google said only one in every 7 million unique queries resulted in a Google policy violation.
Google testing blue visit button for search result snippets
These are really big and visible buttons that may encourage a higher click-through rate from the search results.
Google is testing special snippet treatment for Reddit search results
This will very likely lead to even more traffic sent by Google Search to Reddit.
Google Lens and Circle to Search gains more links, facts and AI Overviews
Not only are the search results more graphical, they have richer information for these more interactive ways of searching.
New Google Search AI features to help you plan, research and learn
New features include AI Overviews, multistep reasoning capabilities, planning capabilities, AI-organized search results, and a new Google Lens ask with video feature.
Report: Reddit signs AI content licensing deal with Google
Reddit's Google Search visibility has exploded in recent months. Now the companies have struck a content licensing deal. Coincidence?
Google expands video requirements for “Video mode” where video must be main content of the page
If your video is not the primary part of the page, Google will not show your videos in search and within "Video mode" of Google Search.
New Google Search vacation rental rich result
This new vacation rental structured data comes with new Search Console and Rich Results reports.
Google patent describes how the Search Generative Experience works
This may be the first and only patent Google has related to SGE.
Google launches new personal search experience with follow button and personalized ranking
Plus, perspectives is coming to desktop, content creators get more visibility and more.
Google Search tests Notes on search results
The notes feature is a labs experiment that you can turn on or off.
Google SGE expands to 120 countries while adding new follow-up questions, AI translation help and more definitions
SGE now in more countries, more languages with more features.
Google Bard can now respond in real time
There is a setting to turn this real-time response off.
Google rolls out about this image and more SGE links
Google said the links in SGE AI answers are from high-quality sites.
Google syntax graph merge for structured data
This allows you to use different syntaxes that can now connect together.
Google rich results for events removed from search snippets
You may have noticed a reduction in clicks from Google Search related to this change.
Google adds new vehicle listings structured data
With this new structured data, Gogole launched a new rich results report and testing tool support for the markup.
Google Search Generative Experience can now create images
Plus Google SGE can provide written drafts.