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Search Console data from France after Google's July 22, 2026 AI Overviews rollout shows sharp click and CTR drops for many sites, while some sites held steady.

Google's Multiturn ads, which appear on responses to follow-up queries in AI Mode, appear to be live after Google announced them a couple of weeks earlier.

Microsoft is now showing both standard search ads and shopping ads at the top of Bing AI Mode results, which was formerly called Copilot Search.

OpenAI is testing an analytics dashboard inside an unreleased ChatGPT Business Hub that shows businesses how often ChatGPT answers mention them and how many clicks those mentions send.

SERoundtable reports renewed Google Search ranking volatility over the past 24 hours, following a roughly two-week calm after the October 27 update.

Google opened a Search Console opt-out from its AI features to sites worldwide on August 31, following a U.K. Competition and Markets Authority conduct requirement, with page-level grounding controls due by March 3, 2027.

A site that opted out of Google's AI features estimated that AI Overviews and AI Mode accounted for about 21% of its clicks, with a possible lift on regular listings.

Cloudflare's CEO says OpenAI pays for hints that tell its crawler when pages change, and that sites may charge AI agents less when they explain their visits.

Google is testing AI-generated summaries that appear above the sponsored results group and beneath individual ad descriptions in search.

Publisher Ziff Davis says organic Google referrals fell again, around 37%, and points to Search Console's AI report as part of the evidence.

Tripadvisor tied a writedown largely to search changes, expects SEO to weigh on growth next year, and says marketing takes a larger share of its revenue.

Google Ads is testing a beta Asset Activity section in the advertiser console that uses Google AI to report on asset performance, diversity, competitors, and industry trends.

Graphite estimates AI assistants reached 76 billion monthly sessions worldwide and says it can no longer reliably compare AI search use with search engines.

Google may be automatically adding booking links to some local business profile listings, and some of those links return 500 errors.

Google has updated its aggregator unit and supplier unit help documents to include support for 'things to do' queries.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have agreed to support a proposed 'policy token' that lets publishers opt out of AI model training with a few lines of text.

WPP agency Ogilvy launched Echo, an AI tool built with Creative Artists Agency to help marketers meet content needs while protecting consumer trust and talent rights.