Earlier this month, Google announced new ways to control how Google’s general search AI features (like AI Mode and AI Overviews) can use your content and link to your content. Well, Google has released a super detailed help document explaining how it all works, including how to access it, the controls, what it does, the time it takes, the property inheritance, and how to submit feedback.
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Google’s Deep Dive On Google Search Generative AI Controls
Google is testing a button in the AI Overview within Google Search that takes you to the web only tab. As a reminder, the web only tab does not have any AI search features or other search verticles, it only has the web search results.
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Google AI Overviews Tests Button To Go To Only Web Results
Google has released version 24.2 of the Google Ads API, this is a minor release with dozens of updates. This update includes “critical security updates, new AI transparency features, reporting enhancements, and powerful planning insights,” Google announced.
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Google Ads API Version 24.2 Now Available
Running ads on every platform? Here’s how to build a measurement framework that compares performance fairly across Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
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How Do I Effectively Measure Campaign Success Across Multiple Platforms? – Ask A PPC via @sejournal, @navahf
Google’s John Mueller explained when Google will count an impression for a web page within the generative AI features in Google Search. In short, there needs to be a link to your site being shown in AI Overviews / AI Mode for it to show as an impression in the new Google Search Console AI performance reports.
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Google: When AI Performance Reports Count Impressions
Google is testing autocomplete within the Ask Anything follow-up box within Google Search’s AI Mode. So when you start to type a follow-up question, Google will suggest autocomplete suggestions.
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Google AI Mode Ask Anything Box With Autocomplete
The page indexing report within Google Search Console is now two weeks delayed. It is stuck at June 11, 2026, for me, and has not been updated in 14 days. Google has been reporting issues with Search Console often enough, so this is not unusual, but this delay is significant enough to cover, since we are now at the two-week mark.
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Google Search Console Page Indexing Report Delayed By Two Weeks Again
WP Rocket now offers free CDN, lowering the barrier to meaningful performance improvements on the most important pages.
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WP Rocket Now Offers Free CDN For Your Most Important Pages via @sejournal, @martinibuster
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WordPress developers question whether the platform’s AI ambitions are pulling attention away from what users have been asking for all along.
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WordPress Developers Say New AI Feature Does Not Belong In Core via @sejournal, @martinibuster
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Two SMX Advanced talks on AI search reveal why technical roadmaps stall without internal coalitions to move them forward. The post AI Search Optimization Isn’t The Hard Part – It’s Getting Buy-In appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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AI Search Optimization Isn’t The Hard Part – It’s Getting Buy-In via @sejournal, @gregjarboe