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Google’s own advice on surviving AI search is not a technical roadmap. It is closer to a mindset shift, and it came from an unusually candid conversation between Google Search Advocate Martin Splitt and Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, on the company’s Search Off The Record podcast. Splitt put the question […]
Nikola Todorovic, Director of Software Engineering at Google Search, appeared on an episode of Search Off the Record to discuss how AI evolved inside Google Search. Todorovic leads Google’s SafeSearch engineering team and has worked in the search organization for 15 years. He said machine learning was difficult to deploy broadly across Search because complex […]
On April 16, 2026, Robby Stein, Google Search’s VP of Product, and Mike Torres, Google Chrome’s VP of Product, announced a new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome. In their announcement, the two VPs wrote that the update makes it easier to “access and engage with content and dive deeper into […]
This week’s Pulse covers how AI Overviews affect click behavior, what independent research shows, and what earnings reports from Google and Microsoft reveal about search revenue. For more on this, see our the agentic web is splitting into two bets: identity and guide. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Reid Repeats “Bounce Clicks” […]
This month’s Ask A PPC explores a question many advertisers are starting to ask: “Can AI Mode ads actually drive conversions, or is this just another awareness play?” The answer to this question will vary based on how advertisers define success and what they’re comparing it against. Many accounts measure new opportunities against campaigns that […]
Alphabet reported Q1 2026 earnings, with Google Search & Other revenue rising 19% year over year to $60.4 billion. CEO Sundar Pichai tied the quarter’s Search performance to AI Overviews and AI Mode, saying people are “coming back to Search more.” Q1 revenue was lower sequentially than Q4 2025, when Search & Other came in […]
TL;DR The best companies aren’t panicking. Carta, Ramp, and Webflow are proving that visibility in AI search comes from connected systems where originality, speed, and credibility compound. Search is now an answer engine. Visibility depends on being cited, not ranked. Freshness fuels authority. 70% of AI-cited pages were updated within the past year. Originality wins. […]
BrightEdge published new data showing the different kinds of sites five AI search surfaces tend to show in generated answers. The data makes it possible to see how those differences shape which types of sites each AI engine shows, with strong implications for how to promote to each one. The research focused on five AI […]
A randomized field experiment finds Google’s AI Overviews reduce organic clicks to external websites by 38% on queries where they appear, while self-reported search satisfaction stays nearly unchanged when the summaries are removed. The working paper by researchers at the Indian School of Business and Carnegie Mellon University was posted to SSRN this month. Authors […]
Google announced three updates to Search and AI Mode this week, which Roger Montti reported for SEJ. Reading his article motivated me to examine these updates, the broader pattern, and their implications for search this year. Looking at this in detail, it appears the updates push more of what used to be a results-page experience into […]