This week we covered the strong search ranking volatility post Google June 2025 core update and it continued through the week, with a spike on Thursday. A Pew Research study on AI Overviews shows clicks significantly drop when AI Overviews are on the page…
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Google Post Core Update Volatility, AI Overviews Kills Clicks, Google Ad Revenue Climbs & More SEO and PPC
In an AI search world, dry facts won’t cut it.
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Experience Forecasting: Content That Enables & Adds Value In The Modern Search World via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
As we reported earlier this week, Google Search ranking volatility was more heated (and for longer) after the Google June 2025 core update completed than during the core update. Well, that volatility continues and it is not just the tools but the chatter within the industry is super high right now.
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Remains Heated – Spiking Thursday
Google finally launched its virtual clothes try-on feature after launching it several times and then demoing it again at Google I/O. Google also launched price alerts to let users specify an amount that will trigger the alert.
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Google Virtual Try-On & Customized Price Alerts Now Live
Google Ads is adding more detailed data to RSAs, responsive search ads, reporting.
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Google Ads RSAs Adding Click & Conversion Data
Google launched a new Search Labs experiment it is calling Web Guide. It basically organizes the web search results for you by category. Google wrote, “Web Guide is an AI-organized search results page that experiments with how we find, surface and organize results from across the web.”
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Google Web Guide Uses Gemini To Organize Your Web Results
I am seeing numerous tests now that seem to prove that OpenAI’s ChatGPT search feature is using Google Search’s index or search results page to serve its own search results.
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Is ChatGPT Using Google Search Results?
Google is now also showing AI Overviews for explanations of lyrics. If you do some searches asking about the meanings of some songs, Google may give you an AI Overview with its answer.
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Google Shows AI Overviews For Lyrics Explanations
Google wrapped Search Central APAC 2025 with insights on serving, ranking, and how it matches queries to content using contextual synonyms.
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Google Search Central APAC 2025: Everything From Day 3 via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW
ChatGPT appears to fall back on Google search snippets when it cannot retrieve data through Bing. The post ChatGPT Appears To Use Google Search As A Fallback appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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ChatGPT Appears To Use Google Search As A Fallback via @sejournal, @martinibuster