Matt Southern

1 week ago | searchenginejournal.com | Matt Southern |Loren Baker |Jenise Uehara Henrikson |Brent Csutoras

Google is rolling out Search Live with voice features through its AI Mode Labs experiment. You can now have natural, spoken conversations with Search while receiving web links in real-time. The was previewed at Google I/O and is now available today for U.S. users. You can access the feature by opening the Google app on Android or iOS. Tap the new “Live” icon under the search bar, as shown below. Once started, you can ask questions out loud and get AI-generated audio responses.

1 week ago | searchenginejournal.com | Matt Southern |Loren Baker |Jenise Uehara Henrikson |Brent Csutoras

Google has updated its Search Console documentation, confirming it includes AI Mode data in Performance reports. This is a change to note when reviewing your metrics, as it may impact traffic reporting patterns. AI Mode is Google’s interactive AI-powered search experience, which builds on AI Overviews to provide more detailed responses. The feature breaks questions into smaller topics and searches for each one at the same time.

2 weeks ago | searchenginejournal.com | Matt Southern |Loren Baker |Jenise Uehara Henrikson |Brent Csutoras

Google has launched Audio Overviews, a new test feature in Search Labs. It creates audio summaries of search results using Google’s latest Gemini AI models. Audio Overviews turn Google Search results into audio content. When Google thinks an audio overview might help, you’ll see an option to create a short audio summary right on the results page.

2 weeks ago | searchenginejournal.com | Matt Southern |Loren Baker |Jenise Uehara Henrikson |Brent Csutoras

Google announced it will phase out support for seven structured data features to simplify search results. This change, rolling out in the coming weeks, will affect the appearance of search results but will not impact rankings. Why Google Is Making These Changes? Google is discontinuing certain structured data types due to their low usage in search results. The company stated that this decision will streamline the results page and focus on more valuable experiences.

2 weeks ago | searchenginejournal.com | Matt Southern |Loren Baker |Jenise Uehara Henrikson |Brent Csutoras

Google has confirmed an ongoing disruption that is preventing some results from appearing in Google Lens, Discover, and Voice Search. According to the company’s Search Status Dashboard, the incident began on June 12 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time. A follow-up entry posted at 1:16 p.m. states:At press time, the disruption is still marked as “Incident affecting Serving,” meaning the underlying services remain online but are not consistently delivering results.