Google Search Now Powered By Gemini 3.5 Flash With New Agentic Features
Google Search is now using Gemini 3.5 Flash to power AI Mode globally and also there are several new agentic features in and coming to Google Search. These agentic features include information agents, agentic coding, personal intelligence is expanding …
Google Tests Preferred Sources Label In AI Mode Citations
Google is now testing adding the Preferred Sources label in the AI Mode links and citations. It is unclear if Google is showing this link in this AI Mode response because it is a preferred source or if it is just labeling it, and it would show the sour…
66% Of SEOs Say AI Mode Won’t Replace Google Search
I asked the SEO community if they think AI Mode will replace Google Search. With Google I/O coming up this Tuesday, there is a lot of speculation around this. And with over 1,000 poll results in, I wanted to share that most of you think AI Mode will n…
66% Of SEOs Say AI Mode Won’t Replace Google Search
I asked the SEO community if they think AI Mode will replace Google Search. With Google I/O coming up this Tuesday, there is a lot of speculation around this. And with over 1,000 poll results in, I wanted to share that most of you think AI Mode will n…
Google Search Live Results Updated By AI X Minutes Ago Label
Google Search is sometimes showing a label under the Live search results named “Updated by AI 1 minute ago.” So Google is labeling what content was updated using AI, which seems new to me.
Google Search Live Results Updated By AI X Minutes Ago Label
Google Search is sometimes showing a label under the Live search results named “Updated by AI 1 minute ago.” So Google is labeling what content was updated using AI, which seems new to me.
Google AI Mode Animated Invisible Edit & Copy Buttons
Google AI Mode is now showing an edit and copy button when you mouse your cursor near the search term or prompt. Otheriwse, the edit and copy button go hidden. Copy, copies the prompt and edit lets you edit the prompt.
Google AI Mode Animated Invisible Edit & Copy Buttons
Google AI Mode is now showing an edit and copy button when you mouse your cursor near the search term or prompt. Otheriwse, the edit and copy button go hidden. Copy, copies the prompt and edit lets you edit the prompt.
Emotion Geometry of Google’s AI Models
Replicating Anthropic’s emotion vector research on Google’s Gemma 4 31B model. In April 2026, Anthropic published a fascinating paper showing that Claude contains 171 internal representations of emotion concepts, organized along a valence axis (positive to negative), with the ability to causally influence the model’s behavior through activation steering. The paper raised an obvious question: […]
Google Search Autocomplete With AI Overview Search Icon
Google is testing showing a new icon in the autocomplete search suggestions, as you type your search. The icon has a magnifying glass with the Gemini logo on it. It suggests a longer query, a prompt, and when you click it, it takes you to Google Searc…
Google Discover Publisher Pages To Get Links & Featured Posts
Google is testing updating the Google Discover publisher pages by adding custom links, featured posts, larger header images and sharper logos. I assume this would be managed by claiming your page?
Google Tests Dark & Light URLs In Search Results (For The Same URL)
Google is testing displaying the URL of the search result snippet where the https portion is a dark gray and the domain name portion is a light gray. It is a weird test, but hey, Google is always testing…
Google Improves Links Within AI Mode & AI Overviews In 5 Ways
Google announced five new ways in how it is improving linking to web pages from AI Mode and AI Overviews. Some of these we saw Google testing earlier, and I (we) were fans of these changes and I am glad to see Google officially roll them out.
Google’s (still) doesn’t see your live page.
I’ll keep this short as I’ve covered this topic extensively in the past. When you ask Gemini to access a specific URL or interact with it inside AI Mode search it works from Google’s web cache. For this website’s home page this is what it has as context to ground the model about the page: […]
Google AI Overviews With Author Names & Source (Again)
Google is showing the full author name and the source, like LinkedIn – and name or Medium – and name, for the citations. It makes sense for these social platforms to show the name, because anyone can write anything on these platforms, so knowing the n…
Google Tests New Anchor Links & Favicon Experiences In AI Mode
Google is testing an update to the citations, anchor links, and favicons within the AI Mode results. This new experience seems to make the citations more clickable because the embedded links have larger favicons and seem to appear more often, near the…
Google Expands UCP Checkout To Main Search Results
In February, Google announced that UCP, Universal Commerce Protocol, powered checkout is available in AI Mode. Well, now you can use UCP powered checkout in the main search results for some retailers like Wayfair.
Google Tests Gemini 3 Model Options In Search Bar
Google is testing letting searchers select the Gemini 3 model they want to use directly in the Google Search bar. The options can include, Pro, Fast or Auto, from what I can see.
Google On AI Overviews & AI Mode Being Isolated Systems (Or Not)
Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, spoke about a presentation he gave at Zurich in December at Google Search Central live (I was there). He dug into it on a recent Search Off the Record named How AI Is Changing Google …
Google On AI Overviews & AI Mode Being Isolated Systems (Or Not)
Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, spoke about a presentation he gave at Zurich in December at Google Search Central live (I was there). He dug into it on a recent Search Off the Record named How AI Is Changing Google …