Google has expanded AI Mode to 180 countries, up from being available in the US, UK and India. Google also announced new agentic capabilities and personalized responses, and a new way to share AI Mode responses.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Discover has these new publisher entity pages with follow counts...
This week, we did a check in on the ongoing Google Search ranking volatility. Google AI Mode expanded to 180 countries, added agentic experiences, got more personalized and gained sharable links. ChatGPT may be...
Google is now showing the deals and loyalty benefits details in the retailer/merchant knowledge panels. Plus, Google Shopping Ads show a "discount code" link that opens a dialog box with the code and a button to "continue to site."
Google seems to be testing a new publisher entity landing page from the Google Discover feed. When you click on the publishers name from your Google Discover feed (it is a test, you may not see it live), you are taken to this new publisher landing page that has the publisher's name, logo, follow button, social counts and recent social shares.
Google Ads is testing displaying how many visits a specific ad or website or landing page has received in the past month. The label would say, "X visits in the past month" right below the unit.