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Google has added a Collected Info tab to Business Profiles, showing what its automated assistant learned by calling or messaging the business.

The Information reported on 29 September that Google's AI contribution pilot pays about 100 publishers, from under $1,000 to over $1 million a year.

Advertisers say Google Ads is cancelling promotional credits after the qualifying spend. One $3,200 credit was invalidated more than a month later.

Google DeepMind has published research on a new AI search ranking method that uses one model where systems today use two.

Groupe Le Monde has seen no sudden audience drop since Google's AI Overviews reached France in July 2026, CEO Louis Dreyfus said on September 8. Le Monde gained 24,000 subscribers a month in July and August.

Google stopped showing flight and hotel prices in EU search results on 8 September, under the Digital Markets Act.

Google will allow personalised targeting for alcohol ads on YouTube from 30 October. Poland is one of four countries left out.

Google announced WeatherNext 3 on 3 September and put it behind weather answers in Search, Maps and the Gemini app.

Google has signed a multi-year deal with MrBeast to promote Gemini, Google Health and Fitbit Air. The first video goes out on 5 September 2026.

GA4 reports showed no traffic at all for 1 September. Google has not commented, and nobody knows yet whether the missing numbers come back.

Google has added Gemini 3.8 Flash to AI Mode in Search. It is the third Flash model from Google in about six weeks.

Google is switching AdSense to begin-to-render counting on 17 February 2027. Ads that download but never appear will stop counting.