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InternationalGoogle Tests AI Mode Ads for Personal Intelligence Users
Google has begun testing ads in AI Mode for users who connect apps like Gmail through Personal Intelligence.
InternationalOpenAI Adds New Image Formats to ChatGPT Ads Manager
OpenAI added larger image ad formats, a conversions overview, and weekly performance emails to ChatGPT Ads Manager.
InternationalChatGPT Dropped UTM Tags From Links for About a Week
ChatGPT stopped tagging links for nearly a week, miscounting visits as direct traffic in site analytics.
InternationalGoogle News AI Pilot Passes 400 Publishers
Google says more than 400 publications now take part in its paid News AI pilot program for publishers.
InternationalGoogle Boosts Inline Links, Preferred Sources Use Up 7x
Google says it increased inline link visibility in AI answers, and Preferred Sources use grew more than 7x.
InternationalGoogle Adds Gemini 4 Argon to AI Mode's Model Picker
Google has added its new Gemini 4 Argon model to AI Mode's model selection menu.
InternationalGoogle Job Postings Hint at AI Concierge Plan for Discover
Google job postings suggest a plan to turn its Discover feed into an AI-powered, personalized concierge experience.
InternationalCitation Reach Beats Domain Authority for AI Citations
Wellows study finds citation reach predicts future AI citations better than domain authority across five engines.
InternationalAhrefs: Only 14% of ChatGPT Replies Trigger Web Search
Ahrefs analyzed 66 million ChatGPT replies and found web search triggers rarely.
InternationalGoogle Tests Rx Ads in AI Mode and AI Overviews
Google has begun testing prescription drug ads directly inside AI Mode and AI Overviews.
InternationalGoogle Unveils UGC Fresh Data Program for Faster Indexing
Google launched a separate program that pushes community and forum content into Search faster than normal crawling.
InternationalOpenAI Brings GPT-6 and Intelligent UI to ChatGPT
OpenAI rolled out a new GPT-6 model in ChatGPT along with a feature that picks the answer format automatically.
InternationalGoogle Tests Add-to-Calendar Button in AI Overviews
Screenshots show an add-to-calendar button inside Google AI Overviews. Google has not confirmed the test.
InternationalGoogle Expands Use of AI to Catch AI-Generated Spam
At a Search Central Live event, Google said it is using AI more heavily to detect search spam.
InternationalChatGPT Tests "Best All-Rounder" Product Labels
OpenAI is testing labels on ChatGPT's shopping recommendation screens. It is not yet a permanent feature.
InternationalGoogle Adds Property-Override Alert to AI Controls
Google now flags it in Search Console when a child property overrides the parent generative AI setting.
InternationalGoogle AI Overview Antitrust Suit Dismissed — "An Expectation Is Not an Agreement"
Penske Media's antitrust lawsuit against Google over AI Overviews, covering Rolling Stone and Billboard among its titles, was dismissed for failing to show a formal agreement existed.
InternationalGoogle AI Overviews Jump From 26% to 80%+ of Branded Queries in a Month
DemandSphere data shows AI Overviews appeared on branded search queries at a rate that jumped from 26% to the 80% range over the course of September.
InternationalChatGPT Captures 95% of AI Referral Traffic — More Than 22x Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude Combined
BrightEdge's August data shows ChatGPT accounted for 95.1% of AI referral traffic, up 101% since the start of the year.
InternationalHP to Preload Perplexity on New PCs While 7 Publishers Keep Suing It
HP is preloading Perplexity onto new PCs' taskbars, even as The New York Times, CNN, and five other publishers continue pressing copyright lawsuits against it.
InternationalChatGPT's Reddit Citations Collapse 86% in a Month
A PromptWatch analysis found ChatGPT's Reddit citation share fell from 3.83% in late July to 0.52% by mid-August, while Google's AI products declined only modestly over the same period.
InternationalYouTube's 'Ask YouTube' Hits 140 Million Monthly Users, Up 500% Since December
At Made on YouTube 2026, YouTube said its conversational search feature Ask YouTube surpassed 140 million monthly users in June, up more than 500% from December.
InternationalGoogle Pushes Search Ads Auto-Migration Deadline to February 2027
Google delayed the automatic migration of Dynamic Search Ads to AI Max from September 2026 to February 2027.
InternationalGoogle Confirms Reddit Gets "No Special Preference" in Search
Google says Reddit receives no special treatment in search rankings, a statement made amid Reddit's complaints about insufficient search traffic.
InternationalEU Designates ChatGPT a "Very Large Online Search Engine"
The EU has designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the Digital Services Act, the first such classification for an AI chatbot.
InternationalGoogle Puts Gemini 3.8 Live Behind "Search Live"
Google is powering AI Mode's conversational "Search Live" feature with Gemini 3.8 Live, which can switch between 97 languages mid-conversation.
InternationalGmail Search's AI Overviews Expand Beyond the US
Google is rolling AI Overviews in Gmail search out globally for paid plans, with full rollout starting September 21.
InternationalA 41-Day Test Finds AI Crawlers Miss Links Injected by JavaScript
GPTBot and ClaudeBot found 0% of JavaScript-injected links in a 41-day test. Even Google's indexing crawler reached only 2%.
InternationalGoogle May Be Blocking Search Scrapers More Successfully
SEO tool vendors report Google search data collection got noticeably harder starting around September 13.
InternationalGoogle Tests AI Summaries in Discover With Dive Deeper
Google is testing a Dive Deeper feature that shows an AI summary screen in Discover instead of the article.
InternationalPublishers Block Training Bots, Allow Answering Bots
Publishers are blocking training crawlers like GPTBot while leaving search-answer bots open, new data shows.
InternationalGoogle Tests AI Overview Format for Local Knowledge Panels
Google is testing an AI Overview label and chat-style expand button on mobile local knowledge panels.
InternationalOpenAI Adds "Sponsored Agents" to ChatGPT Ads
OpenAI adds a conversational "Sponsored Agents" feature and new measurement tools to ChatGPT ads.
InternationalGoogle Expands Agentic Commerce for Holiday Shopping
Google expands seller tools for performance, YouTube ads, and checkout ahead of the holidays.
InternationalGoogle Eases Login and Follower Bar for Search Profiles
Google rolls out unified login, a lower follower bar, and a design refresh for Search profiles.
InternationalTwo GEO Experiments Challenge AI Visibility Advice
Two GEO experiments found third-party citations matter far more than owned content for AI visibility.
InternationalGoogle Tests Paying Publishers Through AI Contribution Pilot
Google is testing a pilot that pays publishers for AI-generated content contributions.
InternationalGoogle Analytics Launches Customizable Dashboards
Google Analytics (GA4) now has a Dashboards feature that brings key metrics and charts together on a single screen.
InternationalGoogle AI Mode Begins Testing Text-Link Ads
Google is testing ads that look like text links inside AI Mode answers, marked with a small Sponsored label.
International131 SEOs Surveyed, Search Intent Tops Ranking Factors
A survey of 131 SEO professionals about Google ranking factors found search intent received the highest rating.
InternationalGoogle Ads Data Shows Query Length Shift Since AI Mode
Further's Jason Tabeling analyzed Google Ads data showing search queries getting longer since AI Mode.
InternationalGoogle AI Overviews Now Answer 97% of Related Questions
A new study finds Google AI Overviews now generate 97% of People Also Ask answers in search results.
InternationalOpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to Europe, India, MENA
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Europe, India and some countries in MENA, with new targeting and conversion tools.
InternationalGoogle Adds Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode, Fixes Link Bug
Google added Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode on September 2. It fixed a missing-link bug the very next day.
International95% of ChatGPT Users Use Google, Queries and Clicks Fell
Similarweb, Bocconi University, Pew and arXiv data show user counts, queries and clicks moving apart.
InternationalProduct Pages Get 24.1% of AI Citations, Reddit 4.2%
Ten Speed counted 7,387 AI citations from 170 prompts: product pages led at 24.1%, community sites got 4.2%.
InternationalSearch Console Generative AI Reports Now Available Worldwide
Google opened Search Console generative AI reports to all sites on August 31. Click data is still missing.