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Google Ads, Performance Max, Search, Shopping and Demand Gen, plus the AI Overviews and AI Mode changes reshaping search advertising. The Keyword covers every product update, policy change and measurement shift Google makes to its ad platform.

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November 6, 2026

Google Adds Home Services Booking to AI Mode in the US

Google is making the software home service businesses already pay for their way into AI search.

October 31, 2026

Google Opens AI Mode and Gemini to Outside App Developers

Google is selling more ads inside AI Mode while keeping the apps it hands work to free of advertising.

October 29, 2026

Google Launches Multiturn Ads in AI Mode Follow-Up Questions

Google is turning the whole AI Mode conversation, not just its opening query, into ad inventory.

October 29, 2026

Google Expands Ads in AI Mode to Ten Markets Outside the US

Google is spreading AI Mode ads abroad as growth in its core Search advertising business slows.

October 26, 2026

Google Brings AI-Written Review Summaries Into Search Ads

Google, not the advertiser, now has the final say over part of what a paid Search ad tells a searcher.

October 17, 2026

Google Tests Ads in AI Mode for Personal Intelligence Users

Inferences from Gmail and Google Photos can now help decide which ads appear, not just which answers do.

October 12, 2026

Google Pilots Local Coupons Billed Only When Redeemed

Charging only for a redeemed coupon would tie a Search ad directly to a sale inside a physical store.

September 25, 2026

Search Console Now Reports Traffic From Image Searches

Image-led search has sent clicks to websites for years with no line of its own in Google’s reporting, leaving site owners unable to tell which pages a camera found.

September 23, 2026

Google Lets UCP Merchants Send Shoppers to Their Own Carts

Cart transfer gives retailers a way into Google’s agentic checkout without handing over the final step of the sale.

September 23, 2026

Google Rolls Out Merchant Center AI Performance Insights

Share of voice in AI shopping answers is now a number retailers in five markets can track against their competitors.

September 23, 2026

Google Tests Paying Publishers for Content in AI Answers

A payout line inside Search Console is the first sign of how Google might put a price on the content its AI answers are built from.

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July 31, 2026

Google Extends Its AI Ad Descriptions to Shopping Ads

Google is moving from ranking the copy advertisers write to writing part of it itself.

July 31, 2026

Big Tech Ad Revenue Grows Double Digits in Q2 2026

AI ad tools moved from testing to default across all six platforms in the twelve months since Q2 2025.

July 29, 2026

Google’s AI Overviews Now Appear in 43% of Searches

Google is turning its results page into a destination that answers queries directly, leaving the websites it indexes with less of the traffic search once sent them.

July 29, 2026

Google Ads Adds AI Content Labels to Its Asset Studio

Regulators in the European Union, India, and New York now require advertisers to disclose AI-generated ad creatives, and Google is turning that obligation into an account setting.

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July 24, 2026

Google Is Expanding AI Max to Shopping Campaigns

As shoppers lean on longer, natural-language searches, Google is retooling more of its ad campaigns to match intent instead of exact keywords.

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July 23, 2026

Publishers Weigh Blocking Google Over AI Search

Search once turned readers into subscribers and ad revenue for news sites, but organic traffic has fallen sharply since AI answers began resolving queries on the results page itself.

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July 23, 2026

Google Ads Adds Video Campaign Groups for YouTube

Google is moving large YouTube advertisers away from managing reach one campaign at a time, extending its push toward automated, portfolio-level media planning.

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July 21, 2026

Google Is Adding a Top Stories Carousel to AI Overviews

News publishers gain a fixed placement inside Google's AI answers, the surface where their links have been hardest to win since AI Overviews launched in the U.S. in 2024.

July 17, 2026

Google AI Max: How It Works In Search Campaigns

Google’s updated guidance explains how AI Max works, how it differs from Performance Max, and how advertisers can enable it.

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