Google rolled out AI Overviews and AI Mode in France on July 22, 2026. Search Console data reveals some big drops in clicks and click-through rate, but not all sites dropped.
Generative AI tools sometimes describe companies and products with false information. Nile's LLMO project leader explains the state of those errors and what companies can do about them, based on support work for hallucination countermeasures.
At the November 2026 MarTech Conference, panelists discussed topic architectures for decentralized channels and how to show commercial influence beyond direct clicks. They described buyers meeting a brand in an AI-generated answer and in private channels before arriving at the site without an attribution trail.
GetMint's Joan Burkovic explains how large companies organize their visibility in AI answers, covering customer needs, measurement, sources and coordination across teams.
Google acknowledges that clicks in AI Mode pay less than classic paid search clicks, because AI Mode pushes the search earlier in the buying journey. Advertisers are being told to test whether discovery-stage spend still pays, Search Engine Journal reports.
The publisher pointed to Search Console's AI report.
ASKUL's B2B online store now supports a ChatGPT plugin. Shoppers can explore and compare products in a conversation.