Google Search news as it happens — core updates, AI Overviews, AI Mode, ranking changes and official announcements, verified against Google’s own statements and trusted industry reporting.
Google is testing a Source preferences button in the AI Mode citations sidebar, letting users add or remove Preferred Sources without leaving AI Mode.
Aachen has barred Google from repeating false AI Mode claims about a doctor, following Munich in treating AI answers as Google's own statements in court.
Google is emailing AI Plus subscribers that Pro model selection in Gemini and AI Mode ends in November, with November 13 named in the emails seen so far.
North Korea says it test-fired the Zam-2.0 torpedo with AI in its target detection and guidance. The claim is Pyongyang's alone, and experts are cautious.
Google removed the Indexing API approval form and request steps from its docs on Oct 16. Default quotas remain, but no way to request more is listed.
Google's Universal Cart is live in Search and Gemini in the US, letting shoppers combine products from multiple retailers into one UCP-powered checkout.
Google’s AI Overviews have started answering searches that have no answer — including misspelled queries and strings of apparently random characters that return no matching web pages at...
Google is reworking how its AI answers send people out to the web, and for once the changes point in the direction publishers have been asking for. In...