The EU fined Google €890 million ($1B) for self-preferencing its own services in Search results and restricting app steering on Google Play, with 60 days to comply or face penalties up to 5% of global turnover.

Major publishers are considering blocking Google Search over declining traffic value while the EU fined Google $1B for DMA violations.

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.

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.

The FTC and 22 state attorneys general filed suit against Amazon, alleging the company changed its ad auction mechanics to overcharge advertisers by over $20 billion.

A federal judge found Google guilty of ad tech monopoly practices but stopped short of ordering a breakup, instead requiring Google to end practices that suppress publisher ad rates.

Google Ads' email support feature is currently down, returning an error message when users attempt to access it.