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 22nd Jul 2026Google's conversational AI search: availability by country and platform, feature rollouts, and what it means for traffic.
Updated 17th Jul 2026Google search chief Nick Fox said AI features send "billions of clicks to websites every week", the company's first specific figure for AI-search referrals. Google shared no underlying data, and Search Console still reports AI-feature impressions rather than clicks.
Google began rolling out connected apps in AI Mode: link Instacart, Canva or YouTube Music and Search can add groceries to a cart, pull up design templates or build a playlist inside the conversation. US only at launch, with more partners promised.
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute gave AI Overviews and AI Mode its lowest rating, "Unacceptable Risk", after 2,624 test interactions. AI Overviews routed only 58% of crisis prompts to appropriate resources, and Google called the methodology flawed.
Google is bringing image generation directly into AI Overviews, turning a text prompt into a custom image with its latest Nano Banana model. It rolls out over the coming weeks in English, in every region that already supports image creation in AI Mode.
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute gave AI Mode and AI Overviews its lowest rating, "Unacceptable Risk", after 2,624 test interactions. AI Mode did better than AI Overviews but still failed all five severe-harm "Red Lines" and completed 100% of the homework assignments given to it.
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