Bad News: Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Go Directly To AI Mode
Google made it official, now Google Search AI Overviews will let you do a follow up question after clicking on the “Show more” button and that follow up question will take you directly into AI Mode. This will no doubt lead to less clicks to your websi…
Bad News: Google AI Overviews Follow-Up Questions Go Directly To AI Mode
Google made it official, now Google Search AI Overviews will let you do a follow up question after clicking on the “Show more” button and that follow up question will take you directly into AI Mode. This will no doubt lead to less clicks to your websi…
Gemini 3 Powering Google AI Overviews Globally
Google AI Overviews are now being powered by Gemini 3 globally, by default. Robby Stein, VP of Product, Google Search announced, “We’re making Gemini 3 the new default model for AI Overviews globally, so you get a best-in-class AI response right on the…
Google AI Mode Tests Product Images With Price Labels
Google is testing adding price labels on top of the product images within AI Mode results. I tried to replicate this but I was not able to, so it seems like a test.
Google Search Gains Personal Intelligence In AI Mode
As expected, but sooner than I thought, Google has brought Personal Intelligence to Google Search within AI Mode. This first launched last week in the Gemini app and is now rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in English in the U.S.
Google Falls Back To Featured Snippets When AI Overviews Don’t Generate
Google will sometimes fall back to showing featured snippets when it is unable to generate AI Overviews for a query. And when that happens, it sometimes looks like an AI Overview, but it is not an AI Overview, it is a featured snippet.
Google Search Makes Recipe Results More Publisher Friendly
A few weeks ago, we covered how damaging the Google Search results were for recipe publishers and bloggers. It was nicknamed Frankenstein recipes because it would take pieces of these recipes from bloggers, mash them together and ruin them, all while …
Google Adds “Answer Now” Button To Gemini App – If You Can’t Wait…
Google added an “Answer now” link or button to the Gemini app. Clicking “Answer now” will stop Google’s Gemini from thinking and then give you an answer right away using Gemini 3 Flash model.
Google AI Overviews With Font Strikethroughs
Here is a weird one – one person named Kunjal Chawhan spotted a Google AI Overview that had an HTML font strikethrough in the text. So it looks like Google is offering an answer, but it’s struck through as a false answer…
Google AI Mode Fan-Out Prompts To Narrow Your Query
Back in May, Google announced updates to shopping in AI Mode. One of those announcements is to help you narrow down your AI Mode results for shopping queries using query fan-out. Well, here is an example of that where Google AI Mode is prompting you t…
Google AI Mode Shows Product Inventory & Pricing In Light Font Color
Google AI Mode is showing really light colored fonts for product pricing and inventory when you click on a product. This differs from the normal font type in the main Google Search results interface.
Google AI Overviews Powered By Gemini 3 Pro For Complex Queries
Google announced late on Friday that Gemini 3 Pro is now powered Google AI Overviews for complex queries. Google actually said this last November, but then edited its story to say it was just AI Mode that was powered by Gemini 3 Pro and not AI Overview…
Personal Intelligence In Gemini & Soon In Google Search AI Mode
Google is rolling out what it calls “Personal Intelligence” in the Gemini app and it will soon also come to Google Search within AI Mode. Google announced that Personal Intelligence in Gemini “connects Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search in a single tap.”
Google’s John Mueller Says Universal Commerce Protocol Won’t Kill SEO
Earlier this week, Google announced Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and it has a lot of the industry worried. Once SEO named Ramon Eijkemans said, “I hate to bring this, but SEOs: we’re gonna be f$@*ed.” John Mueller from Google responded on Bluesky …
Google Trends Explore Page Adds Gemini
Google has added Gemini to the Google Trends Explore page to help you find new and fresh search terms. It will also compare those search terms automatically for you, all in a new design. This is rolling out now, but you might not see it just yet.
Google: We Prohibit Showing Different Prices In Search/AI Mode vs Website
The other day, I saw the Google News channel on X respond to claims that Google is going to allow merchants to overcharge you for products sold through the new AI checkout protocol. I found it crazy because Google has checks and balances to ensure merc…
Official: Apple Intelligence & Siri To Be Powered By Google Gemini
It is now official, Google confirmed it has entered “into a multi-year collaboration” with Apple to power Apple Intelligence features and Siri with Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology.
Google Integrates Core Search Signals Into AI Experiences
Google’s Robby Stein reiterated that Google’s AI experience, such as AI Mode and AI Overviews, integrates Google’s core search signals. This helps Google provide more useful and helpful responses to users in the AI experiences. But it doesn’t always ge…
Google Personalizing Some AI Overviews & AI Mode Answers
Google’s Robby Stein confirmed (again) that Google is personalizing some of the AI experiences, including AI Overviews and AI Mode. He said this on the CNN, Terms of Service podcast with Clare Duffy.
Google Hiring AI Answers & Search Quality Software Engineer
Google posted a new job listing looking to hire a new Senior Software Engineer, Search, AI Answers Quality. The job post says “Help the AI Answers Quality team deliver AI Overviews to users’ hard and complicated queries on the SRP and in AI Mode.”