When Google launched AI Overviews in the U.S. in May 2024, publisher complaints started almost immediately. By May 2025, Pew Research Center had tracked 68,000 search queries from more than 900 adults ...

Google is updating the links in AI Mode to make them more inviting to click. Google also expanded the Web Guides Labs test to the All tab, though you still need to opt in to try it. Links in AI Mode.

Since last year’s disastrous rollout of Google’s AI Overviews, the world at large has been aware of how AI-powered search results can differ wildly from the traditional list of links search engines ...

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how links appear inside AI search results, which types of sites gained or lost visibility in the March core update, and how Google’s Preferred Sources ...

Google is about to look really different, and if you’re not a fan of the AI Overviews feature, then you’re not going to like what’s coming. At the Google I/O 2026 keynote this week, the company ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a keynote address at Google I/O on May 19, 2026, in Mountain View, California. Roger Lynch, the CEO of Vogue and Vanity Fair parent company Condé Nast, recently ...