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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Google Extends Its AI Ad Descriptions to Shopping Ads
Google is moving from ranking the copy advertisers write to writing part of it itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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