Google confirmed it's dynamically expanding AI Overviews to full-screen responses on some queries, eliminating the "Show more" button and pushing organic results further down the page.

Google is rolling out new Search Console reports that let site owners separately track impressions from AI-powered search features like AI Overviews and Discover.

Google's third spam update of 2026 finished rolling out Friday; Gemini 3.7 Flash now powers AI Mode, while multiple other search, ads, and crawler changes roll out across platforms.

Google is rolling out a Search Console toggle that lets website owners opt out of AI Overviews and AI Mode, starting with UK testing.

Google has activated SAFE, an AI spam detector designed to catch AI-generated content spam, likely integrated into its broader spam-fighting efforts.

Google Search experienced unusual ranking spikes this week while the company released remedies for its ad tech monopoly ruling and launched an AI publisher payment pilot.

Search Engine Journal rounds up the week's major SEO shifts: Google's August spam update, generative UI reaching AI Overviews, a new Preferred Sources button for reader control, and an unexplained collapse in Reddit's ChatGPT citations.

Google is rolling out image generation within AI Overviews using its Nano Banana model, potentially reducing clicks to publishers and Google Image Search.

Google deployed Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite to Search, a court dismissed its scraping lawsuit against SerpApi, and Google Ads enforced new appeal deadlines and reorganized features.

Google has scrapped a test that auto-generated AI images summarizing recipes in Search, after creators objected that it bypassed their original photography and content work.

Google announced Friday that Search is now running on Gemini 3.7 Flash, its newest AI model designed for coding and agentic tasks.

Google is rolling out its latest Gemini 3.7 Flash AI model to Search's AI Mode today for paid Pro and Ultra subscribers globally in English.