Google Search Live Gets a Gemini Audio Upgrade for Smoother Replies

Search Live gets an upgrade with Gemini 2.5 native audio, delivering faster, more natural voice conversations and hands-free ...

How to trigger the secret 6-7 trend Easter egg on Google Search

The viral dance craze has officially taken over the search engine. Here is how to trigger the "6-7 Trend" Easter egg on ...
Wired

With AI Mode, Google Search Is About to Get Even Chattier

Google’s new chatbot-style AI Mode search experience, previously an experiment, is launching for US users. Publishers and marketers will have to adjust their search strategies once again. Google is ...
The New York Times

Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution.

AI Mode excels at tasks like product research for online shopping. But it falls short on basic web searches. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology writer and the ...
CNET

Google Search Changes Are Killing Websites in an Age of AI Spam

Google's major search algorithm updates this past year have left many smaller websites with no other choice than to lay off staff. The internet is worse for it. Imad is a senior reporter covering ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Now Counting AI Mode Clicks, Impressions & Positions

Google has now officially confirmed that Google Search Console is counting AI Mode data. Google said, "AI Mode is now counting towards totals in Search Console." We saw this when AI Mode went fully ...
Android Authority

Is Google AI Mode better than regular Google Search? I tested both, and there's a clear winner

If you’re a regular user of Google Search (which you almost certainly are), you’ve likely noticed Google’s consistent push for more AI features on the search engine. At last year’s Google I/O, Google ...