Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Google's Q2 2026 search ad revenue grew 14.5% to $81.6 billion, driven by AI Overviews and AI Mode adoption.

A court ruled against Google on key Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims in its lawsuit against SerpApi, the scraping tool.

Business owners report their review replies have vanished from Google Business Profiles, though replies remain visible in incognito mode and the issue appears widespread.

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 and ChatGPT are separately testing whether moving citation cards from top to bottom of AI-generated answers affects user click behavior.

A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuit against SerpApi, ruling that publicly accessible search results and snippets are not copyrighted works Google can legally protect.

Google Ads now prevents appeals of policy violations older than 6 months, effective July 21, 2026.

Google refreshed its crawl budget guidance to clarify that all sites start with the same conservative crawl capacity limit, which can expand automatically if demand and health metrics support it.