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 head of search, Liz Reid, was interviewed about Google Search, AI, ad clicks, publishers…

Google is now sending push notifications to some users that direct that user to a search within AI Mode. Yes, Google is pushing users to do queries in AI Mode using push notification services from the Google app.

Now if you manage multiple Google Business Profiles, when you add a Google Post, Google will let you quickly add that same Google Post to other Google Business Profiles that you manage.

Liz Reid VP, head of Search at Google, was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal’s Bold Names podcast. They spoke about AI, AI Search, how ads are impacted by AI results and other Google features, and AI-generated content’s impact on the web and search, plus more.

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we covered the new Google Ads label, which Google says improves navigation but in my opinion…

Google has updated its Google Merchant Center policies to now allow for the sale of physical goods subscriptions. Google said this “will be available to all eligible Shopping ad merchants in the United States.”

Google Ads will be updating the Google Ads Healthcare and Medicines policy to reflect the changes it will require to the approach to advertiser use of prescription drug terms.

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. Bing now supports the data-nosnippet HTML attribute…

New data from AlsoAsked put AI-generated people also ask in Google Search at 38%. These are people also ask responses labeled as AI generated and that number jumped from 17.8% just a few months ago.

Microsoft has added support for the data-nosnippet HTML Attribute for Bing Search. This was previously not supported but yesterday, Microsoft announced it is “introducing the data-nosnippet HTML attribute.”

Google has updated the list of Google products and services that use the Google Read Aloud user agent. The updated page also says that the “service provides an audio version of web pages by understanding their content through help of AI” but adds, “no data from the page is retained for AI model training.”

Google has released version 22 of the Google Ads API, this is a major release with dozens of updates. Updates include smart bidding exploration expansion, improvements to DemandGen, PMax campaigns, App campaigns for installs, and more.

Google added Nano Banana Gemini image features to Google Search through Google Lens. There is a new option named Create mode that unlocks the Nano Banana feature.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

When you go to the Google AI Mode home screen, the quick way to do that is to go to google.com/ai. You may see a small disclaimer under the search box that says “Based on your Google activity.”