Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed on X that ads can show above/below the AI Overviews or within the AI Overviews but not in both positions at the same time. She wrote, “Your ad could trigger to show either above/below AIO or within AIO, but not both at this time.”
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Google: Ads Can Show Above/Below or Within AI Overviews But Not Both At Same Time
Google is updating its Unapproved Substances section of the Healthcare and Medicines policy in June to allow the promotion and serving ads for Melatonin.
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Google Ads To Allow Melatonin Ads Beyond US & Canada
Google is testing another search results snippet hover effect. This one will color the background a light gray shadow like color. We’ve seen variations of this before (see articles below).
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Google Search Results Light Background Shadow Color On Hover
Microsoft is testing using alternative names and titles for the related searches section within the Bing Search results. I was able to trigger four alternatives to the normal related searches header.
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Bing Tests Related Searches Alternative Texts
Google’s Thematic Search patent describes a system that closely parallels how AI Mode’s Query Fan-Out technique generates summaries The post Google’s Query Fan-Out Patent: Thematic Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google’s Query Fan-Out Patent: Thematic Search via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Struggling to prove content’s revenue impact?
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Clicks Don’t Pay the Bills: Use This Audit Framework To Prove Content Revenue [Mozcon 2025 Speaker Series]
Google AI Mode traffic bug fixed after organic search was mislabeled as direct traffic in Analytics. The post Google Fixes AI Mode Traffic Attribution Bug appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Fixes AI Mode Traffic Attribution Bug via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
New study of 25,000 searches shows that top Google rankings still matter for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI search results. The post Is SEO Still Relevant In The AI Era
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Is SEO Still Relevant In The AI Era? New Research Says Yes 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. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2025
Nilay Patel of The Verge had a great one-on-one conversation with Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO. Nilay did put on the pressure around how the changes with AI Overviews and AI Mode in Google Search are impacting publishers in a very negative way, but Sundar seemed unconvinced that web publishing is dead.
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Google’s Sundar Pichai Doesn’t Think Web Publishing Is Dead