Google updates, AI search changes and search industry data, tracked daily by the Keywords Everywhere team.
Every confirmed core and spam update: live rollout status, full history back to Panda, and what each one means.
Updated 7th Jul 2026Where Google's AI answers show up, how often, what they do to clicks, and every major change since launch.
Updated 29th Jul 2026Google's conversational AI search: availability by country and platform, feature rollouts, and what it means for traffic.
Updated 29th Jul 2026Similarweb's 2026 Generative AI Landscape report puts AI Overviews on 43% of US searches, up from 15% a year earlier, and AI Mode visits at 279 million a month against 126 million in June 2025. It is the highest prevalence figure on this page, and Similarweb has published no methodology behind it.
The European Commission fined Google 890 million euros for self-preferencing its own services in Search and for Play Store steering, its first Digital Markets Act penalty against the company. The decision covers classic results, and the Commission said it will consider how Google plans to apply the same principles to AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Google switched on AI Overviews and AI Mode in France on July 22, two months inside the September 23 deadline it had given French publishers. France was the last major market with neither feature, held back for two years by the press neighboring-rights standoff.
Google launched AI Mode and AI Overviews in France on July 22, two months inside the September 23 deadline it had given French publishers. France was the last major market without either feature, kept waiting two years by the press neighboring-rights standoff.
USA Today, People Inc and Reuters put their names to what publishers have been saying privately: after two years of AI answers absorbing referral traffic, blocking Google's crawler is a live option. Nobody has done it, and one crawler still feeds both ordinary Search and the AI answers.
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