Category: Google

Google has released an alpha version of an API to access Google Trends data – the Google Trends API. “This new API will help Researchers, Journalists, and Developers to understand Search behaviors and patterns,” said Daniel Waisberg of Google.

Pew Research Center released a report that showed Google searchers who encounter an AI Overview are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. The study showed that 8% clicked on links to websites when an AI Overvie…

Google is testing adding more links within the search results snippets. Google is showing a “see more” link that will jump you to the section on the web page related to the piece of content you are seeking. Plus, other hyperlinks within the search resu…

Google is testing replacing the “More” button under the search bar within the search results page with at least two different options. One is “More filters” and the other is “Show more.”

Google’s John Mueller said it may make sense to noindex your LLMs.txt file. This way, the file doesn’t get indexed by search engines, and then somehow a user lands on it and is confused.

Google has uploaded a new logo for Google Search Console. The logo looks like a variation of an analytics logo with a magnifying glass, with blue, green, yellow and a smidge of red in the logo.

After months of testing, it seems Google is rolling out a button for AI Mode directly in the search box on Google’s home page – on Google.com. This seems like a big deal to me, and goes along with AI Mode being the first tab in the main search results.

Google is supposedly showing AI Overviews for movie-related queries. Apparently, this is new, although I don’t have firsthand knowledge since I don’t typically search for movies. However, I’ve been told it’s new by a number of sources.

Google is charging searchers to access the latest and best of its AI Mode and Deep Search. Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro for AI Mode and Deep Search for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.

Several weeks ago, we reported Google was testing AI-generated summaries for Google Discover. Well, according to TechCrunch, Google has confirmed as of this week, this is an official launch and is rolling out in the U.S.

Earlier this year, Google released a new search labs feature named Ask For Me. Google would call local businesses to get the information you need and then send it to you, without you having to pick up a phone. Well, it is still in labs, still an expe…

Google is testing much larger favicons in the Google Search results on mobile. We’ve seen Google test variations to favicons and sitenames countless times and covered a lot of them here but this version has Google using a really large favicon and some…

Google is either testing showing link cards only within AI Mode or it might be a bug. Randomly over the past few weeks or so, I’ve seen reports of people noticing AI Mode responses without any content, but instead just the link cards.

Google is now showing not just short videos in AI Overviews but also longer-form videos in the AI Overviews. AI Overviews may show no videos or may show several videos as you scroll through the AI-generated response. Google AI Overviews can now show ma…

Google is testing a zoom effect when you place your mouse cursor over the images in the search result snippets. Normally, these images do not move, but in this test, Google is using this zoom feature to give the results a bit more dimension.

Google announced yesterday that AI Mode now works with Circle to Search and Google Lens. Google’s Rajan Patel wrote on X, “Today, we’re taking your visual searches to the next level with two new capabilities.”

It seems that the links/citations you see in Google AI Mode can be very different when you search on desktop versus mobile. In fact, it seems like the sources can differ even if you try the same query on a different desktop browser.

Google AI Mode also has search suggestions in the follow-up section. After you ask Google AI Mode a question and scroll down to ask a follow-up, Google may show you follow-up search suggestions.

A couple of weeks ago, Google rolled out AI Mode via Search Labs in India and now Google is fully rolling it out, without opting into it in Search Labs within India. AI Mode is now fully live in India and the US, without you opting into it in Search L…