Google’s release schedule now has more entries than the Fast & Furious franchise.
Say cheese: Google Pics, Google’s powerful new image creation and editing tool, is rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Plus most Workspace business customers.
It works inside Docs and Slides now, with Drive coming. And it looks like there will be no more tab switching for mock-ups and social posts.
Your reviews are writing ads without you: Google Ads is now labeling a “What customers love” section as AI-generated from store rating reviews.
This means that your review corpus is becoming ad copy you never approved. Go read what it’s saying about you.
Receipts, at last: Search Console’s generative AI performance reports rolled out worldwide on August 31. You get impressions, pages, countries, devices, and dates for AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Finally, numbers.
Skip the shortcut: John Mueller tested Markdown files for AI crawlers and found only SEO tools requesting them.
His advice: log your accept headers first, before building files for bots that may never ask.
Brussels is watching Google too, not just ChatGPT: EU regulators are surveying publishers on Google’s AI search opt-out.
Publishers’ answers could decide whether Google adds to its €10 billion antitrust tab. Let’s wait.
