Google now defines and addresses AI-generated content in the quality rater guidelines. Guidelines say AI tools are allowed, but content must provide unique value. Three new spam types are included: ...

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Friday designated Google with a special status in the market for online search that would enable the regulator to enforce stricter ...

Numerous studies indicate that the shift to AI search features and the use of AI chatbots are killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in ...

Following the US and India (earlier this month), Google Search is now launching AI Mode in the UK. Compared to AI Overviews at the top of a Search results page, AI Mode offers a more Gemini ...

A class action lawsuit filed Wednesday in the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal claims Google abused its position to restrict competing search engines. The suit is being brought on behalf of all ...

In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow. But by the ...