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Google Search expands AI Mode with PDF uploads, planning tools, video input, and Chrome integration, offering new ways to interact with search. The post Google AI Mode Update: File Uploads, Live Video Search, More appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google AI Mode Update: File Uploads, Live Video Search, More via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 29, 2025
Kevin Indig breaks down AI’s toll on traffic, publishers, and organic visibility, and why the second half of 2025 may hit even harder. The post AI Halftime Report H1 2025 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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AI Halftime Report H1 2025 via @sejournal, @Kevin_Indig
Your site lost 30% of organic traffic after a migration.
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Ask An SEO: How Can We Recover A 30% Drop In Organic Traffic From A Site Migration? via @sejournal, @kevgibbo
Google is notifying some advertisers that they do not comply with Google’s EU User Consent Policy, i.e. Consent Mode v2 and that as of July 21st and will turn off personalized and non-personalized ads, remarketing and conversion tracking functionality.
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Google Ads Turns Of Personalization, Remarketing & Conversion Tracking
Google is testing a button to drive more people into AI Mode for shopping help. The button is labeled “Help me shop in AI Mode.” When you click on it, it takes you into AI Mode with the AI Mode shopping experience.
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Google Search: Help Me Shop In AI Mode
Jul 25
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Google has now expanded AI Mode to UK users after bringing it to India last month and the US fully the month prior to that. Google said, “Starting to roll out in the UK today, you’ll see it appear as a tab on your Search results page, and in the Google app for Android and iOS.”
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Google AI Mode Expands To The UK
Google seems to be testing using AI to summarize the menus for local restaurants within Google Search and Google Maps. I believe it still shows the real menu but will add above and between it, AI summaries of those menu items.
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AI Generated Google Business Profiles Menus
A bit over a year ago, we saw Google testing a website link in the hotel local pack on desktop search. Now it seems Google is also testing it on mobile search, unless it was like that then and we didn’t see the mobile version.
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Google Hotel Local Pack Tests Website Link On Mobile
Jul 25
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Google’s John Mueller advises checking whether your ecommerce store is accessible to AI agents. The post Google’s Mueller Advises Testing Ecommerce Sites For Agentic AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Mueller Advises Testing Ecommerce Sites For Agentic AI via @sejournal, @martinibuster