AI Mode self-citations tripled in nine months. Google Maps launches Ask Maps with Gemini. Reid describes new audio and video indexing. Branded filter goes live.

Google answered questions about Search Console's brand queries filter after announcing the feature was now available to all eligible sites.

While previous embedding models were largely restricted to text, this new model natively integrates text, images, video, audio, and documents into a single numerical space — reducing latency by as muc ...

For years, Google Maps has been able to surface nearby coffee shops and provide turn-by-turn navigation. What it couldn't do was answer complex questions that blend ...

Nine bugs were found in Google's Looker Studio which could have allowed outside access.

Google Maps Adds Conversational 'Ask Maps' AI Search Arabian Post. Alphabet Inc. has introduced a conversational artificial intelligence feature called“Ask Maps”, marking one of the most significant c ...

Google Maps debuts Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered AI chatbot for conversational local searches. Now available in the U.S. and India on Android and iOS devices.

AI search expands the long tail into endless prompt variations. Here’s how fan-out queries, grounding, and task completion ...

ShinyHunters take the blame, saying they grabbed GCP credentials in the Salesloft Drift fiasco.

Perplexity announced Computer for Enterprise at its Ask 2026 developer conference, launching a multi-model AI agent with ...

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