Google is testing a new version of the mobile search results snippets where the URL is now blue, still clickable. Also, a variation where they are switching the placement of the URL and the site name.

Microsoft Advertising has temporarily suspended the ability for agencies to send out client connection requests.

Google seems to have added a new section to music knowledge panels named “Behind the music.” It seems that this is generated using Google’s Gemini AI and gives you a bit of background on the song.

Microsoft is now showing two rows of shopping ads at the top of the Bing Search results. There is even an option to expand them to show more ads.

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Google AI Overviews reaches 1.5 billion monthly users with Alphabet’s Q1 earnings showing 10% search revenue growth.

Google reported earnings and their ad revenue is up again year-over-year, with an increase of 8.5%, and overall revenue is also up 12%. I should note, it is down from Q4 because Q4 is always Google’s best performing quarter, which is why you don’t really compare the it to the last quarter, but rather the same quarter from a year ago.

YouTube AI Overviews are now being tested in search results, highlighting relevant video clips from searches.

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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…