Category: Google

Google has removed “Next” from Google Merchant Center Next and it is now to be known as just Google Merchant Center. Google announced this over here saying, “The platform you use today will simply be referred to as Google Merchant Center.”

Nick Fox, Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information at Google, said Google Search “broke all prior usage records and saw its highest usage in history” after Argentina scored its winning goal in yesterday’s World Cup match.

For the past week or so, I have heard a few folks notice that Google is appending tracking URLs to the search results. So when you click on a search result, instead of the URL going directly to that site, Google is using a google.com/goto URL as a pas…

Google Search normally shows product listings with pricing on them, but sometimes it can show “Contact store for price” when it Google does not know the price. I am not sure if I’ve seen this before, and it might not be new, but it did really stand out…

Back in early May, Google announced five new ways to explore the web with generative AI in Google Search. One was a feature that was titled “Further Exploration” at the bottom of the AI Overview within Google Search. Well, now it seems some are seeing …

Google has posted its Fourth of July Doodle for 2026, the United States Semiquincentennial celebrates the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. The Doodle is an animated GIF of the American flag in the background.

Recipe bloggers really have Google’s ear, as Google has made yet another official change to its AI Mode recipe results. Google’s Robby Stein announced on X the launch of “a new visual treatment making it even easier to discover and visit recipe pages …

Recipe bloggers really have Google’s ear, as Google has made yet another official change to its AI Mode recipe results. Google’s Robby Stein announced on X the launch of “a new visual treatment making it even easier to discover and visit recipe pages …

Google Trends now lets you plot the change of interest in keyword phrases over time and then compare those over the previous time. There is a new compare to previous time period button you can click on Google Trends to get the good looking chart to be …

Google seems to be testing the rollout of top stories within the AI Overview section of the Google Search results. This was something Google pre-announced last month and it now seems to be rolling out to some searchers.

Google is testing a button in the AI Overview within Google Search that takes you to the web only tab. As a reminder, the web only tab does not have any AI search features or other search verticles, it only has the web search results.

Google is testing autocomplete within the Ask Anything follow-up box within Google Search’s AI Mode. So when you start to type a follow-up question, Google will suggest autocomplete suggestions.

Google published new ways to remove and prevent Google Merchant Center from showing products “Found by Google” in your product feed. This is when Google finds products on your site by crawling your site, not through your feed.

Google is testing attributing where the 3D models are from that Google shows within the product detail screen in Google Search. I can’t replicate this but the test shows “3D mode from [retailer name].”

Google seems to be showing content from publishers in the Google News Showcase more within the Google Discover feed. I don’t have direct data to prove this but two people who follow Google Discover closely said this is to be true.

Google is rolling out Information agents within Google Search AI Mode. Information agents was announced at Google I/O and is a search feature that you can pay for within Google AI Ultra subscription plans, allowing Google Search to perform tasks and se…

Google is showing a new label or extension on the Google Shopping product carousel named “Good price.” Truth is, I am not sure if it is new, I mean, Google can show many different labels there but I’ve never seen “Good price” listed there before.

Google sent an email to some searchers notifying them that changes are coming to how to control your saved history and personalization within Google Search. Google added that “You’ll see this change in your Google Account in the next few days.”

Google is testing using a dotted underline and a shaded URL for the search result snippet’s URL. Yesterday, we covered how Google was testing a blue dotted underline for sitelinks within the sponsored results. But now we are seeing dotted underlines an…

Google Search and its search generative features like AI Mode and AI Overviews were unaffected by yesterday’s Gemini outage. Gemini, which is Google’s AI product, had several outages throughout yesterday and we know that Gemini powers some of Google S…