Google Ads added a new channel control for Demand Gen to show ads in Google Maps. Some advertisers see the ability to select Maps as a placement in Demand Gen.
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Google Ads Adds Google Maps Channel For Demand Gen
Google Search has been sending 25 percentage points less traffic to news publishers over the past two years, according to the folks over at Newzdash. In 2023, Google Web Search made up over 51% of traffic from Google surfaces to news publishers; that number is now down to 27%.
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Google Search Traffic To News Publishers Drops From 51% To 27%
Google is testing prefilling the search bar in a new Chrome tab, with teasers to encourage you to search deeper with AI Mode.
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Google Search Bar Tests Teases For AI Mode With Animation In Box
Have you seen those Google Discover notifications that pop up and seem like news notifications from the Google app but what they do is drive you into Google AI Mode.
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Google Discover Notifications That Go AI Mode Responses
A new dataset of 300K viral YouTube videos suggests that faces in thumbnails perform about the same as without them, with larger differences by niche. The post Do Faces Help YouTube Thumbnails
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Do Faces Help YouTube Thumbnails? Here’s What The Data Says via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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. We had big Google search ranking volatility over the weekend, likely from the end of the December core update…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 22, 2025
Learn why AI works best as a support tool, not a decision-maker, and why misplaced trust in autonomy is risky. The post Ironman, Not Superman appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Ironman, Not Superman via @sejournal, @DuaneForrester
Google is testing appending “learn more” links to the end of the Google search ads text. So the Google Ad will have its normal ad description and at the end, Google is testing adding “Learn more” with an arrow to the right, in blue anchor underlined text.
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Google Tests Learn More Links After Ad Text
GMBapi posted data that looks at tens of thousands of Google Business Profiles across multiple countries and showed that review deletions have increased significantly over the year, compared to previous periods.
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Report: Google Deleting Local Reviews More Than Ever
Google quietly updated its AI Overviews ad documentation to say that ads in AI Overviews are supported in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, and US.
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Google Expands Ads In AI Overviews To More Countries But Not For Sensitive Verticals