In addition to the latest Lens feature today, Google Search is rolling out “Organized with AI” and ads in AI Overviews.
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The Search widget offered by the Google app on iPhone and iPad now offers customizable shortcuts, including to Gemini.
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On Saturday evening (PT), a large number of Android users are seeing the Google app repeatedly crash (“Google keeps stopping”) when they attempt to search.
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Rolling out starting today, Google Search results will now directly link to The Internet Archive to add historical context for the links in your results.
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Google Search is home to a number of built-in tools, with the stopwatch and timer recently getting a redesign.
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Back in 2018, the Google app on Android introduced the ability to customize the Search bar widget, but a redesign takes away most of the options.
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Following the US launch in May, Google Search AI Overviews are coming to six more countries, while links will appear in a new “right-hand link display.”
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For queries that you don’t want saved to Account history, the Google Search app on Android is testing a rather prominent shortcut to “Chrome Incognito.”
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Starting back in 2020, Google Maps and Search gained the ability to show the boundaries of nearby wildfires. Now, support for wildfire info in Google Maps and Search is expanding to more countries through Europe and Africa.
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Besides partnering with NBC and Team USA, Google is celebrating the Paris 2024 Olympics across its major services.
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Reddit can be a valuable source for information from real people, which is why Google is spending millions on a deal with the platform. But, now, Reddit has started to block many of its results from showing in other search engines properly.
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Back in November, Google Search Labs launched a Notes experiment and it’s now coming to an end with the feature ultimately not launching.
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The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad, which basically is its own browser, now offers customizable homescreen icons.
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After introducing in 2021 and 2022, Google is rolling back continuous scrolling on the Search results page.
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Google will start rolling out public, searchable “profiles” in Search that will show your movie and TV reviews as well as notes in Search starting on June 24.
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The Google app on Android is showing a persistent Search bar at the bottom of any web result or Discover article you open.
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Introduced in 2020, Hum to Search is an underrated capability and Google has now given it a delightful animation.
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Google launched AI Overviews in mid-May to all users and, following some viral mistakes, it seems the company has pulled back, as new research shows it may be appearing in merely 15% of search queries.
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While Search Labs is most closely associated with generative AI, Google also uses it to test other features, with the latest being “Auto Dark Mode” on the iPhone.
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Google already surfaces air quality in a number of ways, and it’s now being added to the Weather card in Search results.
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If you’ve noticed some weird behavior in Google Search today, the company has just confirmed that limited outages are causing “some features” to not work properly while some users are reporting problems with Discover and News.
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Google this afternoon published a long response about AI Overviews and their accuracy. The Search feature launched at I/O 2024 in the US and has been criticized for some high-profile mistakes.
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For the past several years, Google Search and Maps has offered a Business Messages capability that lets customers reach out to stores, restaurants, etc. via text chat. This is now shutting down in July.
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On Monday, internal documents describing what factors Google Search takes into consideration when ranking and displaying web results leaked.
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