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Google is expanding advertisements inside its AI Mode search experience beyond the United States to 10 additional countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Singapore. The company also announced plans to bring AI Mode ads to Brazil, Mexico, and the United Kingdom later in the fourth quarter of 2026. Simultaneously, Google is launching multiturn ads in the US, which will display sponsored results during follow-up questions. [2][3][5]
The sponsored listings, which Google says are clearly labeled, integrate conversational discovery ads and highlighted answers powered by Gemini to answer complex search prompts. Unlike standard search ads that show once, the new multiturn format will appear on every follow-up question and response. Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler said that click-through rates for sponsored product listings in AI Mode match those of organic listings, and Google research claims users consider the placements appropriate. [2][3][5]
The international rollout comes as Alphabet works to improve monetization for its AI offerings. While Alphabet announced that total Search query volume reached its highest year-over-year growth rate in five years, Search advertising growth slowed to 12 percent year-over-year in the third quarter. [2][4][5]
Google is bringing ads to AI Mode globally as it admits that the new take on Search brings “lower monetization,” all while $GOOG stock is seeing a fairly major drop.
via 9to5Google
Google's AI Mode has answers, and advertisers have some suggestions too.
via Android Authority
The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
via TechCrunch
That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud
via The Register