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Welcome to this week’s Pulse. Google is laying more groundwork for agent-led shopping, Google Trends is getting a Gemini helper inside Explore, and Google appears to have responded to a report we covered last week on AI Overviews health queries. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) Brings Agent Checkout […]
Google has announced an update to Google Trends, its comparative search volume tool, which will now include AI suggestions to help contextualize searches, and give you more insight into relative Search interest and engagement. The big functional change is that Google’s added a suggested terms for comparison option in the right-hand side bar within Trends. […]
Google is disputing claims that its new AI-powered shopping checkout work could enable what critics describe as “surveillance pricing” or other forms of overcharging. The back-and-forth started after Lindsay Owens, executive director of consumer economics think tank Groundwork Collaborative, criticized Google’s newly announced Universal Commerce Protocol and pointed to language in its public roadmap about […]
Google has announced some new updates to its Veo AI video generation tool, with Veo now able to create videos based on reference images, generate vertical videos, and upscale clips to 1080p and 4k resolution. Veo 3.1 is Google’s most powerful AI video generation system to date, and could be a valuable tool to have […]
Right now, we’re dealing with a search landscape that is both unstable in influence and dangerously easy to manipulate. We keep asking how to influence AI answers – without acknowledging that LLM outputs are probabilistic by design. In today’s memo, I’m covering: Why LLM visibility is a volatility problem. What new research proves about how […]
As the online shopping process evolves, Google is looking to help retailers tap into the latest era of AI-assisted discovery, and maximize sales opportunities via AI-assisted means. This week, at the National Retail Federation conference, Google has announced a range of AI-based features for retailers that are designed to provide more connection opportunities in the […]
Apple is partnering with Google to power its AI features, including a major Siri upgrade expected later this year. The companies announced the multi-year collaboration on Monday. Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology will serve as the foundation for the next generation of Apple Foundation Models. “After careful evaluation, Apple determined that Google’s AI technology […]
In my last post, I referenced how there is now a growing split between the “human” web and the “agentic” web, where AI agents are becoming an additional audience/profile alongside the “traditional” human visitors we have been optimizing for for years. This shift is now becoming more aggressive, especially when it comes to the transactional web […]
Google announced tools that let shoppers complete purchases directly within AI Mode and chat with branded AI agents in Search results. Users can purchase from eligible product listings on Google. Retailers are still the seller of record, while the checkout happens on Google surfaces instead of the retailer’s website. Universal Commerce Protocol Powers AI Mode […]
ChatGPT accounted for 64% of worldwide traffic share among gen AI chatbot websites as of January, while Google’s Gemini reached 21%, according to Similarweb’s Global AI Tracker. Similarweb’s tracker (PDF link) measures total visits at the domain level, so it reflects people who go to these tools directly on the web. It doesn’t capture API […]