Google Ads Arrive in Search AI Mode "Thinking" Results as Monetization Race Begins
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Google Ads Arrive in Search AI Mode "Thinking" Results as Monetization Race Begins
#Google #AI #GoogleSearch #AdTech #Gemini3 #ThinkingMode #DigitalMarketing #SearchAds #AgenticAI #SearchEngines #OnlineAdvertising #Monetization
MediaPost: Google Begins Displaying Ads In ‘AI Mode’. “Google has begun displaying ads in AI Mode, the company’s AI search engine, placing them at the bottom of the responses on the page. Ad results labelled with the sponsored tag resemble the organic link cards that serve up above.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/22/mediapost-google-begins-displaying-ads-in-ai-mode/
The Post (New Zealand): Lunchtime read: US drug dealer branded a killer by AI sues Google . “[James] Keene’s lawsuit is one of at least six complaints that have been filed so far in the US by Americans who say they have been defamed by AI, according to the Stanford law professor Eugene Volokh. The alleged libels are attributed to an occasional tendency by AI large language models to suffer […]
Search Engine Journal: LLMs.txt Shows No Clear Effect On AI Citations, Based On 300k Domains. “A new analysis from SE Ranking suggests the llms.txt file isn’t delivering measurable benefits yet. After examining roughly 300,000 domains, the company found no relationship between having llms.txt and how often a domain is cited in major LLM answers.”
Microsoft Claims AI Search Traffic Converts at 3x Rate, Defying Publisher 'Collapse' Narrative
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Reuters: Baidu’s third-quarter revenue falls 7% as ad slump offsets cloud growth. “Chinese search engine Baidu reported a 7% fall in quarterly revenue on Tuesday, dragged down by its advertising business amid sluggish demand, although its cloud division posted strong growth.”
Mashable: Why does Google AI Overviews say ‘Call of Duty 7’ doesn’t exist? Wishful thinking, perhaps. . “For the past few months, searching ‘Black Ops 7’ on Google has returned a bizarre response from the search engine’s Gemini-powered AI Overview, which insists the game doesn’t exist.”
Perhaps it would be useful to have some user-friendly generic DB client (is there some manner of schema description format spec that could be of use here?), such that the usual mostly-standard formats for dumps can be viewed by users that decide to torrent or otherwise download the dumps.
(No, the average user is not going to get much use out of even just SQLite, nevermind PostgreSQL dumps. I do not represent the majority.)
This would permit such sites to hard-limit the number of concurrent or total queries without a complete loss of availability.
Making said client compatible with updatable torrents (bep49 could be used for this too) would be even better (there is a dearth of such torrent clients as of currently).
#SearchEngines #Torrents #Crawling #Crawlers #DoS #WhyInlineTags
Search Engine Land: Most ChatGPT links get 0% CTR – even highly visible ones. “Newly revealed data exposes how little traffic ChatGPT drives to publishers. Spoiler alert: The gap between visibility and clicks is huge. A leaked file reveals the user interactions that OpenAI is tracking, including how often ChatGPT displays publisher links and how few users actually click on them.”
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