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Google announced today that Search, News, and Discover will be “removing links to Canadian news publications” in response to a new law.

In a bid to have Search surface more authentically human content, Google is experimenting with a quick way for people to create and read “Notes” that contain “helpful tips about an article or topic from both experts and everyday people.”

Right before the holidays come barreling in at the end of 2023, Google is revamping how deals and products are displayed in Search and Chrome’s shopping UI. It’s simple – here’s how to navigate the new look.

The Google Search Generative Experience (SGE) is getting a huge international expansion in over 120 new countries and territories and a handful of new generative AI-powered features.

As holiday shopping gets underway, Google is rolling out new features, like in-browser price insights, across Chrome and Search.

Ahead of the busy holiday shopping season, Google today announced a number of product updates, like updating Knowledge Panels for retailers with a “Promotions” section.

Google is updating its Search Generative Experience (SGE) with an AI image generator, as well as text generation. The idea is to let you get things done right from Google Search.

Announced at I/O in May, Google is now rolling out an “About this image” tool that you’ll find in the three-dot overflow menu of Search photo results.

The Google.com homepage has largely been a simple search box for almost the entirety of the company’s history, but it seems it might be getting an overhaul sometime soon. Following similar tests last year, the Google Search homepage has been spotted testing out a new layout that’s nearly identical to Google Discover on Android.

Google is continuing to expand the Search Generative Experience (SGE) by letting teens in the US sign up for it.

TikTok has taken the world’s attention in a big way, and for younger audiences, the app has almost become a go-to for all information, including for searches. Now, TikTok is start to integrate Google Search results in “some markets.”

To celebrate Taylor Swift’s 1989 album re-release, Google is offering up a new easter egg in Search. After a collective of fans solve all 33 million puzzles, Google has a surprise waiting. Hours in, and it’s already almost one-third done. Here’s how to get in on it.

Emoji Kitchen debuted a couple of years ago as a part of Gboard for Android, introducing the truly delightful ability to mash together different emoji into a single sticker. Now, Emoji Kitchen is officially coming to the web (and, in turn, iPhone) by way of direct integration into Google Search.

Earlier this year Google announced that Search would start, by default, enabling a SafeSearch setting that blurs sexually explicit images and content that appears in search results. Now, the company is confirming that the change has been rolled out.

Following the May launch in the US, Google is giving the Search Generative Experience (SGE) an international launch in India and Japan, while the company also shared early user research.

Google Search results are about to become a bit more social, as the company’s next Labs experiment is an Instagram Stories clone to add public “Notes” about particular webpages.

The Search Generative Experience (SGE) that Google is testing out with some users shows an interesting future for the world’s most popular search engine, but one that also wasn’t really showing its source links very clearly at first. Now, though, Google seems to be testing more prominent links in SGE.

Last year, Google stopped developing an “Assistant Memory” feature that would have presumably served as a new cross-service bookmarking system. The old approach is still around and is now called “Google Saved.”

Google last updated its logo in 2015 following the Alphabet reorganization. Some people now think they’ve spotted a new design in testing, but Google is not getting a new look.