This week we covered more about changes in Google search rankings. Google said billions of clicks are sent to websites every week through AI search. Major publishers are fed up and are strongly considering blocking Google search completely. Google Search uses the latest Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite model. Google’s revenue was about $120 billion, with advertising revenue up 14.5% and searches up 17%. The European Commission has fined Google $1 billion for anticompetitive behavior in Google Search and Google Play. Google’s lawsuit against SerpApi was dismissed on the grounds that Google cannot own the copyright in search results. Google has updated its crawl budget documentation. Google will notify you via email if your review content is not posted. Google has another review bug, this time regarding review replies. Google is changing hotel search results beyond DMA requirements. Google Local Services Ads is moving to Google Ads. Google Ads dispute limit is no longer 6 months. Google Ads AI Max shopping campaigns are now available. Google has warned against uninstalling and reinstalling the Google and YouTube Shopify sync apps. Google comparison list ads will be changed to CSS product list ads. Google AdSense related search formats will be retired on August 6th. Bing is testing a button that opens sitelinks in search. Bing is testing the images section of the shopping panel. ChatGPT results show two ads from two different advertisers. That was the search news at this week’s Search Engine Roundtable.
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