Google Expands Personal Intelligence As Jarvis Approaches
Google announced that Personal Intelligence is expanding across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and in Gemini in Chrome to all users in the U.S. When Personal Intelligence first rolled out…
Live Sports Data In Google AI Mode
Google’s AI Mode is showing entity cards with a live score of ongoing sports events.
Reverse Prompting: Reconstructing Prompts from AI-Generated Text
We fine-tuned Google’s Gemma 3 (270M) to reverse the typical LLM workflow: given an AI-generated response, the model reconstructs the most likely prompt that produced it. We generated 100,000 synthetic prompt-response pairs using Gemini 2.5 Flash, trained for a single epoch on a consumer GPU, and built a Streamlit app that sweeps 24 decoding configurations […]
Are Local Packs Losing Their Call Buttons?
A new study points to there being a low rate of call button appearances in Local Packs.
Google News Support Team Still Advices You Go To Search Liaison For Updates
As you know, Google’s Danny Sullivan stepped down from his role as the Search Liaison, and that support channel closed down on August 1, 2025. That isn’t stopping Google News support team from advising publishers to follow the Google Search Liaison ac…
Google What People Are Saying With Popular & Latest Comments
I am not sure how new this is but the What people are saying box within Google Search now also shows the more popular comments and latest comments for Reddit threads.
Is Google Hitting Self-Promotional Listicles Hard Again?
Is continuing rank volatility again impacting sites focusing on self-serving listicles? Industry chatter seems to indicate so.
Google Tests Instagram Knowledge Panel Design
Google is testing a new knowledge panel design for when you search for an Instagram account of a notable person. Google will display the individual’s knowledge panel, promoting the Instagram card higher up in that panel.
Googleâs AI Mode Checking For Personalized Information
A look at how personalization without opt-in to connect other Google properties, such as Gmail, appears in AI Mode.
Google Search Your Related Activity Adds Chart
Google has offered this feature that shows you your past searches, including being able to see your related activity searches from the Google Search results. Now, it seems, Google added a chart to show that search activity over time.
Google Search Your Related Activity Adds Chart
Google has offered this feature that shows you your past searches, including being able to see your related activity searches from the Google Search results. Now, it seems, Google added a chart to show that search activity over time.
Robby Stein Of Google On Teaching AI To Link Out
Robby Stein, VP, Product at Google Search, was interviewed by Zain Kah on Google AI Search features. While most of the conversation are items we already know, he did say a few interesting things that I want to pull out.
Robby Stein Of Google On Teaching AI To Link Out
Robby Stein, VP, Product at Google Search, was interviewed by Zain Kah on Google AI Search features. While most of the conversation are items we already know, he did say a few interesting things that I want to pull out.
Google Discover Tests Large Publisher Header Images
Google is testing a larger header image for the Google Discover publisher header images. It looks a lot more magazine-type and style.
Google Discover Tests Large Publisher Header Images
Google is testing a larger header image for the Google Discover publisher header images. It looks a lot more magazine-type and style.
Google’s Liz Reid On Progression Of Google AI Search
Alex Heath and Ellis Hamburger interviewed Google’s head of Search, Liz Reid, on Google’s progression of AI into Search. It felt like a very candid interview that is worth listening to. In short, Liz is still not sure if Gemini and Google Search will …
Google Discover Follow Widget Home Card
Google is testing a new widget for the Google Discover feed where you can follow news publishers and/or topics. It is called the “home follow widget.”
Google: Trending Posts & Discussions Added To What People Are Saying
Google added “Trending posts & discussions” title under What People Are Saying section within Google Search results. It also has those favicons at the top, which I don’t think is new but it is all part of the package.
Search Grounding is Transient
There is a fundamental misconception about how Google’s AI search and Gemini chatbot process retrieved web content. It is widely understood that these systems use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to search the web, pull snippets from pages, and ground their answers in factual data. However, there is a pervasive assumption that once an AI pulls in […]
Google AI Mode Recipe Widget Sucks Searchers Into AI Frankenstein Recipes
Google is testing a new AI Mode widget within the main search results that drives searchers away from the core search results and recipe listings/cards and into AI Mode, which then shows those horrible AI-generated Frankenstein recipes.