Google Pushes Timeline For Gemini Replacing Assistant Into 2026
Anish Kattukaran, CPO at Google Home & Nest announced in the Google Gemini forums that Gemini will not be replacing Google Assistant by the end of 2025. He wrote, “We’re adjusting our previously announced timeline to make sure we deliver a seamless tr…
Google Sued SerpApi Over Scrapping Search Results
On Friday, Google announced it had filed a lawsuit against SerpApi for scraping the Google search results. Google alleges that SerpApi is running an “unlawful” operation that bypasses Google’s security measures to scrape search results at an astonishin…
Google’s AI Uses Schema?
Article updated thanks to a sharp observation from Lukasz Rogala who makes my claim less certain and putting us back in the “needs more evidence category”. There’s some evidence Google uses structured data to ground Gemini in its AI search. If true this is good news for AI SEO people and vindication for schema advocates […]
Google’s AI Uses Schema?
Article updated thanks to a sharp observation from Lukasz Rogala who makes my claim less certain and putting us back in the “needs more evidence category”. There’s some evidence Google uses structured data to ground Gemini in its AI search. If true this is good news for AI SEO people and vindication for schema advocates […]
Google’s AI Uses Schema?
Article updated thanks to a sharp observation from Lukasz Rogala who makes my claim less certain and putting us back in the “needs more evidence category”. There’s some evidence Google uses structured data to ground Gemini in its AI search. If true this is good news for AI SEO people and vindication for schema advocates […]
Google Product Reviews Bug On Product Detail Pages
Google reportedly has a bug that displays incorrect product reviews in Google Search for a retailer. It is now pulling from text on the page that includes the Google Business Profile reviews, despite the product reviews not being there and not being ma…
Google Product Reviews Bug On Product Detail Pages
Google reportedly has a bug that displays incorrect product reviews in Google Search for a retailer. It is now pulling from text on the page that includes the Google Business Profile reviews, despite the product reviews not being there and not being ma…
Google Search Testing New Sports Features
Google is testing a number of new sports-related search features within Google Search. These include a “What’s new” section, “Discover more” section, a Play-by-play section, What people are saying and more. And some of these features, when clicked, tak…
Google Search Testing New Sports Features
Google is testing a number of new sports-related search features within Google Search. These include a “What’s new” section, “Discover more” section, a Play-by-play section, What people are saying and more. And some of these features, when clicked, tak…
Gemini 3 Flash For Google AI Mode – Now Rolling Out
Google is bringing Gemini 3 Flash to AI Mode, bringing much of Gemini 3’s power without waiting too long – hence the “Flash” part of the name. Robby Stein from Google said, “Starting today, we’re rolling it out globally in Search as the default model i…
Google Discover Tailor Your Feed With Natural Language
Google Discover is testing and maybe rolling out an option to “Tailor your feed.” This allows you to tailor the feed with “Say in your own words what you want to see,” and Google will try to figure it out.
Google Tests Very Long Expandable AI-Generated Search Result Snippets
Google is testing extremely long and expandable search result snippet descriptions in the search results. These are also AI-generated snippets, which we’ve seen before, but not this long. This goes on for eight lines of text.
Google Rolling Out Read More Links Search Result Snippets
After several months of testing, Google seems to be rolling out the “Read more” links at the end of some of the search results listings. We saw Google test variations of this back in July and it now seems to be live.
Google Search Live Gets Conversational Language Upgrade With Gemini
On Friday, Google announced a number of updates around translation, language, audio, voice interactions and thus Search Live. Google said it released a more “fluid and expressive conversations when you go Live with Search.”
Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool
You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts specific sentences, evaluates them against the query, and decides whether your content deserves to ground its answer. The rest of your carefully crafted copy? Find […]
Grounding Snippet Extraction Tool
You can rank #1 and still be invisible to AI search. That’s the uncomfortable truth of the AI Mode era. Google’s AI doesn’t just look at your page, it extracts specific sentences, evaluates them against the query, and decides whether your content deserves to ground its answer. The rest of your carefully crafted copy? Find […]
Google News AI-Powered Article Overviews Go Live For Some Publishers
On Wednesday, Google announced a number of new AI features, which we covered (links below) but one other feature Google spoke about was “AI-powered article overviews.” This is an experiment Google News is trying with a handful of publishers.
Google AI Mode Links Updated & Adds Contextual Introductions
Google announced it has updated the links in AI Mode to encourage searchers to click more. Google also introduced contextual introductions to embedded links in AI Mode responses.
Google Web Guide Expands To All Tab Officially (Opt In Still Needed)
Google has officially expanded the Web Guide to the “All” tab. Originally when it launched as a Search Labs beta, it was under the “Web” tab but as we saw, Google began expanding it to the “All” tab.
Google AI Mode Tests Search Live (Voice) With Citation Cards
Google is testing integrating Search Live (Gemini Live – voice search as you talk) in AI Mode. Plus, this version shows citation cards as part of the answer, as you are having a conversational search with AI Mode.