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Google says it’s saving files and media uploaded during searches in user search history to train AI and improve the experience after announcing the change last month. Search history will include pictures, screenshots taken with Circle to Search, and audio files used in voice searches, but you can disable that.

Google is in the early days of testing a new behavior in Chrome that sends users straight to AI Mode, bypassing the standard Search experience.

Google today announced “Search profiles” as a new way for website owners and creators to “shape their presence on Search.”

Google announced today that it will let publishers determine whether their websites appear and are used by AI Mode and AI Overviews, independently of regular Search results.

After introducing for regular Search results, Google is bringing Preferred Sources to AI Mode and AI Overviews.

Google Search is adding two new settings related to your history and personalization. The aim is to provide users with “more control over saved history and personalized recommendations.” This is rolling out over the coming weeks, and users are beginning to receive email and in-app notifications.

AI in Google Search can be useful, but it’s also one of those “love it or hate it” tools. If you’ve been wanting to turn AI Overviews in Google Search off, though, there’s a pretty easy way to do that.

In a slightly funny twist, it’s been highlighted that Google’s AI Overviews currently break when you use words such as “disregard.”

As the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaches, Google is announcing a partnership with the US Men’s and Women’s National Teams to integrate additional themed features into Google Search.

Thanks in part to tools like Nano Banana, AI-generated content is more unavoidable than ever. As announced at I/O, Google is doing its part to help curtail the situation it’s played a part in, building on top of SynthID with some new AI verification checks.

Google Search received big updates at I/O 2026. For starters, AI Mode is now powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash globally and has over 1 billion users every month.

Launched in the second half of 2025, Google is now expanding its “Preferred Sources” tool in Search to all users in all languages across the globe.

Google’s expansion of AI Mode continues today with an integration into the Search bar on Android devices.

Google is adding a new tool to Search that should allow users to save a little bit of cash on their upcoming summer vacations.

After testing got underway in September, the “Google app for desktop” is now launching for “Windows users globally in English.”

Websites that engage in “back button hijacking” might soon appear less prominently in Google Search results as part of a new spam policy. 

Google Search has started testing the use of AI to replace headlines and website titles, a change that seems both unnecessary and a slippery slope.

New data shows just how impactful AI has been to the web, with Google Search referrals falling off of a cliff while traffic from AI source links are next to nothing.

Google has pulled the plug on a “What people suggest” feature in Search that would use AI to summarize health tips from real users on Reddit and other communities online.