Google Search and Discover traffic to publishers dropped 40% year-over-year, while direct and internal traffic grew

The UK's CMA has proposed new rules requiring Google to make it simpler for Android and Chrome users to select alternative search engines or AI platforms.

Google is now displaying external links in roughly 25% of AI Overviews, up from nearly 0%.

Google added newly-launched CrUX ad metrics to its Page Experience documentation without confirming them as a ranking signal.

SERoundtable reports spammers are using Google's public Gemini Notebook feature to generate and publish low-quality pages across search results.