Category: Google

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.

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 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.

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…

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 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 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…

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.”

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 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.

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…

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’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’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 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.”

A month ago, Google added LLMs.txt files to many of its developer and documentation sites including the Search developer docs. As you know, Google pulled it off the Search developer docs within a day or so but the LLMs.txt files still remain on many of…

Google has been showing social media posts in Google Discover, including posts from X for a while now, and Google may even show more posts from those you follow. But is Google showing too many social media posts from X in your Google Discover feed?

Google is working on fixing an issue where some searchers are seeing squished images within the Google Search knowledge panels. I personally cannot replicate this but it seems to be happening for a number of searchers.

Google is testing a blue “Send” button in the search query box on its home page. When you type in your query, you can click “Send” to search Google for that query.

Just like with Christmas day every year, so to with New Year’s Day – Google’s John Mueller and often other Googlers, are out and looking to respond to some questions on Google Search and SEO. John Mueller so far posted a few times on Reddit this morni…