One account uploaded more than 150 photos to unrelated Google Maps listings, every one carrying the same phone number. Plus 131 specialists…
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Ninety seven percent of the answers inside Google's People Also Ask boxes are now AI Overviews, up from 12 percent fourteen months…
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New survey data shows 57.5 percent of AI users have been talked out of a purchase by a chatbot, and nearly nine…
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Google Shopping ads are showing less often but converting better, and new data across 175 billion impressions explains why. Plus a warning…
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Google has quietly made exact and phrase match keywords eligible to serve inside AI Mode, reversing a rule that kept tight keyword…
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Google Ads started migrating search campaigns to AI Max on its own, Meta pulled placement exclusions out of ad sets, and new…
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Google put Gemini 3.8 Flash into AI Mode this week and the citations disappeared, which Google has now confirmed is a bug.…
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Google Analytics standard reports have shown zero traffic since 1 September, and Google has acknowledged the fault sits in its own reporting…
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Calls from Google listings fell 11.9 percent and website clicks 12.5 percent, while direction requests rose 21.1 percent. Google also switched on…
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In August a bot setting removed an entire government website from Google, and on 15 September that setting becomes the default for…
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Google has confirmed that AI Overviews now expand into full answers for some searches, removing the Show more button and pushing your…
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From today Google stops applying its site reputation abuse penalty to anyone searching inside Europe, after pressure from the European Commission. Also…
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