Google released its much anticipated AI Mode, which is in beta now, but it super cool. Google AI Overviews are now powered by Gemini 2.0. Google had more search ranking volatility this week

Google sent out emails to Local Service Ads advertisers notifying them that their Google Business Profile accounts are not affiliated to your Local Service Ads account.

Google Ads has updated its interface for when you select when you want your ads running in specific regions/locations. Now, it has a button to “add locations in bulk,” which should help you add locations faster.

Google may be bringing channel reporting to the Google Ads Performance Max campaigns.

Google has shut down, turned off, and disabled, its new page annotations feature. The feature where Google hijacked your content, placed links in your content, links you didn’t add yourself, and directed your content to Google Search.

Google has this new “Know before you go” section in the search results. I mean, it is new for search, not new for Google Maps and not new for local. But I’ve never seen a Know before you go box in the search results before.

Microsoft is now showing why it selects or chooses to show a specific ad directly in the Bing search results. When you click on the arrow down by the URL of the search ad snippet, you will get window dialog that may explain why the ad was shown.

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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.