Google is charging searchers to access the latest and best of its AI Mode and Deep Search. Google released Gemini 2.5 Pro for AI Mode and Deep Search for Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers.

Several weeks ago, we reported Google was testing AI-generated summaries for Google Discover.

Earlier this year, Google released a new search labs feature named Ask For Me. Google would call local businesses to get the information you need and then send it to you, without you having to pick up a phone

Traditional ranking metrics are less reliable in today’s AI-driven SERPs. Understand why average position misleads and what to track instead.

Google is testing much larger favicons in the Google Search results on mobile. We’ve seen Google test variations to favicons and sitenames countless times and covered a lot of them here but this version has Google using a really large favicon and sometimes removing the site name completely.

For the past couple of years, we’ve seen Google show QR codes you can scan and email or text this number to call features in the Google Ads. Google’s Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, confirmed that these actions are indeed tracked by Google Ads, down to the conversion, if you set those up.

Google’s June 2025 core update is now done rolling out, it took 16 days and 18 hours to complete. The core update started on June 30, 2025 at around 10:34 am ET and ended on July 17, 2025 at around 4:18 am ET. Google posted saying, “The rollout was complete as of July 17, 2025.”

Google’s June 2025 core update is now done rolling out, it took 16 days and 18 hours to complete. The core update started on June 30, 2025 at around 10:34 am ET and ended on July 17, 2025 at around 4:18 am ET

Google’s John Mueller answers whether it is okay to show logged-out users different content from what is in the structured data. The post Google Answers Question About Structured Data And Logged Out Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller answers whether it is okay to show logged-out users different content from what is in the structured data. The post Google Answers Question About Structured Data And Logged Out Users appeared first on Search Engine Journal