Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called the biggest upgrade to the Search box in over 25 years, released first-party AI Mode usage data, and sent mixed signals on llms.txt from…
Google has begun rolling out the May 2026 core update, according to the Google Search Status Dashboard Google also announced the rollout on X through its Search Central account. The rollout may take up to two weeks to complete. Today we released the May 2026 core update. We’ll update our ranking release history page when…
Google began rolling out the May 2026 core update on 21 May, with a two-week completion window. It is the second core update of 2026 and arrived 48 hours after Google unveiled an AI-first Search redesign at I/O. The two events together move both organic rankings and AI Overview citations at once. Most marketing teams…
Google has rolled out a significant upgrade to its Gemini AI platform, enabling users to create full documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDFs directly from a chat interface using natural language prompts. The feature, which became available on April 29, 2026, effectively turns a conversational AI window into a one-stop content factory. In English: you type…
Google Search is getting the “biggest update” to the platform in more than 25 years, the tech giant announced, as its search bar is changing to include artificial intelligence capabilities. At Google I/O on May 19, Google announced changes to its search bar, powered by the company’s newly released AI model, Gemini 3.5 Flash. The…
Google expands AI suite, unveils commerce and analytics tools The company outlined a series of AI-focused platform updates at Google Marketing Live 2026 to support campaign performance, commerce and measurement. (Image: Google) At its Google Marketing Live 2026 event on May 20, the tech company unveiled a wide range of new advertising and commerce tools…
Google released the May 2026 core update today, the company announced. This is Google’s second core update of 2026. It follows the March 2026 core update, and then the March 2026 spam update and the February 2026 Discover update. What Google is saying. Google updated its Search Status Dashboard to state: Released the May 2026 core update. The…
Why 1 in 4 Americans are using AI for medical advice More Americans are turning to artificial intelligence for quick health answers, and in some cases, skipping the doctor altogether. unbranded – Lifestyle Vertical Google Search is getting the “biggest update” to the platform in more than 25 years, the tech giant announced, as its…
Add Techlomedia as a preferred source on Google. Google has announced a new AI-powered image editing app called Google Pics. The app combines generative AI tools with advanced editing features and will integrate directly with Google Workspace apps like Slides and Drive. Google says the new app is powered by its Nano Banana AI model…
Google just announced a smorgasbord of new AI tools for productivity and creativity at its Google I/O keynote on Tuesday, but not many of them are available for free right now. I/O was huge for Gemini superusers, as the flashiest new features are all rolling out to paying members right now. Even Google AI Plus…
