Google may be rolling out updates to its hotel search results based on the European Commission’s requirement for Google to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Google is now sending out notifications when a review is not posted after a user tries to submit a review on a Google local business profile. The notice says “review not posted,” and adds “Our automated systems removed this content because it seems that the content may not follow our Maps content policies.”

Google has released version 25 of the Google Ads API, this is a major release with dozens of updates. This update includes changes to campaigns, planning, reports, conversions, and more. Google now breaks down the change log based on breaking changes, features and updates (that do not break anything) and more.

Google is testing using rounded corners for the stories and cards that show up in the Google Discover feed. Google normally shows the images for the stories as rectangles but now we are seeing Google round out the corners and add white borders to the edges of the images.

OpenAI has added a new tooltip to the conversions column within the ChatGPT Ads Manager.

On Alphabet’s Q2 call, Pichai named coding an area to improve, saying Google needs Gemini 4 for the next frontier, as 3.5 Pro stays delayed.

Alphabet’s Q2 Search revenue rose 17% to $63.27 billion, its first easing after four quarters of acceleration. Google credited retail and Gemini integration

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Google reported its earnings today, its Q2 2026 earnings report showed search ad revenues up by 14.5% at $81.6 billion and overall revenue was up 24% at $119.8 billion. As you know…

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