Google I/O is underway and it’s a parade of new products and features. And as you can imagine, everything has an AI label on it and is infused with Gemini, Nano-Banana, and other Google AI variants.
Google has announced that it’s reformatting some of its AI Overview results to accentuate experts and the wisdom of the crowds. This notably puts Reddit front and center in terms of an authoritative source of knowledge for granular natural language queries, which are the active ingredient in AI search.
Google continues to add functionality to AI Mode. The latest enticing offer is the ability for users to ask the AI engine about availability of nearby products, including what’s currently in stock. This brings a longstanding functional aspiration for Google together with its latest AI-focused and buzzy products.
Google’s latest fusion of AI – Search Live – is now available publicly and globally. For those unfamiliar, this is Google’s multimodal-AI play that lets users combine visual, conversational text, and voice to prompt Gemini.
Google Maps just got smarter. The company announced that Maps will get a new Gemini-powered ‘Ask Maps’ feature that makes the UX more conversational. This is just the latest in a sequence of updates that bring more AI to Google Maps, and the latest development in the ongoing mapping wars.
Google has quietly introduced a change to its review ecosystem that could have outsized implications for local businesses and local SEO: users can now display
Google and Apple have announced that Gemini will be the brains behind Apple’s long-awaited and AI-upgraded Siri. It will power Apple’s flagship personal assistant and elevate it to the standards of the AI age.
Just a few weeks after the latest batch of Gemini-centric updates in Google Maps, it’s out with a new set of features. True to the mapping wars, these are meant to gain an edge on Apple Maps, and the other challengers.
In the whole “AI is eating the world” progression, the latest thing to be swallowed is shopping. The thought is that you can do all your shopping end-to-end within your AI engine of choice – from research to price comparisons to transactions. We round up the latest market moves.
The latest product in the prolific Google Labs does just this. Known as Pompelli, the joint effort from Google Labs and DeepMind automatically assembles ad campaign creative assets like banner ads. Like several multi-step agentic AI tools that are developing, it turns detailed prompts into action and output.
The language around AI “killing” search is beyond hyperbolic. Every week, articles declare that LLMs will replace Google, website traffic will all but disappear, and the
Though Apple talked a big game when launching Apple Intelligence, it hasn’t stuck the landing. And now, there’s evidence of an alliance with Google to outsource AI functionality to Gemini. What does it all mean?
Google received some good news in the form of a stay of divestiture for its Chrome browser. Though it still faces punitive and preventative antitrust measures, the biggest bullet has been dodged.
Google this week added to its rapidly expanding AI arsenal with a set of tools for generating talking-head videos. Use cases include product how-tos, support modules, or spokesperson-based video ads. This update adds avatars and other features to Google’s existing and underexposed Vids tool.
Google’s AI Mode just took its latest steps forward. And these steps involve both global and local expansion. For the former, it’s available in more countries. And for the latter, its agentic functions are now more capable for typical local search needs, like finding restaurants and booking appointments.
Is the elevated use of AI engines and their citations offsetting the effects of zero-click search? In other words, organic traffic from Google is declining per the above. But does greater ChatGPT usage – and resulting referrals and traffic – counterbalance those declines.
oogle’s drone delivery division, Wing, just pushed things forward in localized aerial eCommerce delivery, in partnership with Walmart. This follows similar moves and geographic expansions from Amazon, signaling an ongoing land grab – or airspace grab – in last-mile delivery to local markets.
One looming question in Google’s AI embrace is how it impacts the way it serves ads. Google took steps to answer this question over the past week. We assemble the evidence.
During this week’s I/O keynote. Google brought the transformative AI-centric search paradigm, AI Mode, from open beta (Google Labs) to widescale availability, at least for U.S. users.
Google is combining AI Mode with multimodal search, which lets you search across media formats, including text, images, and video. What does this combination mean on a surface level and in terms of Google’s AI evolution?
