Google brings search-style AI nswers to Chrome help center with Gemini

Google has been steadily turning traditional search into an AI-first experience, first with AI Overviews and then AI Mode. Now, that approach is showing up where users may not expect it: the Chrome Help Center. Google appears to be rolling out “Ask Google Help,” a Gemini-powered AI assistant that can answer questions about Chrome directly […]

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Microsoft is adding “ask a follow-up” feature to Copilot results, and it could affect publishers’ traffic

Bing is now testing an “Ask follow-up” box within its Copilot/AI Overview results. Previously, this section only included “Read more” and “Read less” buttons, but today we spotted Bing testing a new follow-up question box, similar to what Google has been testing within its own AI Overviews. Here is a screenshot of how it looks. […]

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Bing Tests Prominent Download Buttons for Popular Desktop Software

Bing is showing a new software search result that places a prominent Download button directly inside a dedicated result card. The card appears for searches involving popular desktop applications. It includes the software’s name, website, category, publisher, and a short description, followed by a large Download button that gives users a direct route to the […]

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DuckDuckGo is using Chrome to convince you to stop using Chrome

DuckDuckGo is encouraging users of its search engine in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge to try its own browser. In Chrome, we spotted a large “Switch to Our Browser” card on DuckDuckGo’s New Tab experience. The card says the browser is “fast, free, and gives you even more online protection,” and includes an “Install DuckDuckGo […]

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Famous UK retailer builds YouTube studio to get AI to recommend its products

British department store chain John Lewis is turning to YouTube to help its products appear in AI shopping recommendations. The retailer has opened a permanent studio inside its flagship London store after reporting a sharp increase in searches from AI agents. Those searches now account for 2.5%, up from 0.3% a year earlier, according to […]

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Is Google struggling to show favicons for sites in search results?

Google appears to be having trouble displaying favicons for websites in search results. We also noticed this issue last week for some sites. Brodie Clark raised this on the SERP Alerts page on X, flagging the favicon issue. Brodie wrote: “Heads-up: Google seems to be struggling to show favicons for a large number of sites […]

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Google explains why hreflang alternate URLs show as “not indexed”

Gary Illyes clarified how Google handles hreflang and alternate URLs during canonicalization, explaining that these alternate versions aren’t indexed in the traditional sense. This came up in a LinkedIn thread started by Faiez Javaid, who asked: “If Google is choosing by itself one /lang/ as canonical and ignoring others showing in GSC as not indexed, […]

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Google loses four architects of Search and Gemini as DeepMind’s founder steps back

Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le and Oriol Vinyals are leaving to form a new AI company. Demis Hassabis is handing daily control of Google DeepMind to one of his longest-serving deputies. Four engineers whose work runs through Google Search, the company’s computing infrastructure and Gemini are leaving to start a new AI venture. At […]

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