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Google is shipping a wearable feature that attempts to track insulin resistance without a needle, a lab requisition or a finger-prick device.

For 41 minutes, Google told anyone who searched Sam Altman's name that he was dead. The Knowledge Panel republished a vandalised Wikipedia edit automatically, and no one at Google touched it.

For 25 years, two buttons sat beneath the Google search bar: "Google Search" and "I'm Feeling Lucky." One of them is now missing from a live test running on the world's most visited page.

Local Services Ads have occupied their own corner of Google's advertising empire since the product launched as a stripped-back, pay-per-lead offering for tradespeople and household-service businesses. That separation ends.

Your Google Business Profile ranking used to be the scoreboard that mattered. That scoreboard now has a rival, and it is winning by a wide margin.

Website owners can finally see how much of their Google traffic comes from AI answers, and the new numbers explain where the missing clicks have been going.

Google's search results page looked meaningfully different by mid-2025. AI Overviews and AI Mode had taken up residence at the top of the page, synthesising answers from across the web and presenting them directly to users before a single blue link appeared.

Google confirmed in July 2026 that Local Services Ads will cease to exist as a standalone product, with all campaigns automatically converted into a specialised Performance Max campaign type configured for pay-per-lead goals.