There is a switch inside Google Search Console that removes a site from AI Overviews and AI Mode without touching its rankings, which is a client-side failure mode we had not accounted for and a correction to something this radar said on 10 August.

Google's help documentation describes a per-property setting with three values: the default, which is include, an explicit exclude, and inherit from parent. Exclude stops a site's content appearing in AI Overviews, AI Mode and the generative AI features in Discover, and stops it being used to ground answers in those features. Google is explicit that this costs nothing in ordinary search, verbatim: "This control only affects whether your content can appear in certain Search generative AI features; this control isn't used as a ranking or inclusion signal affecting other parts of Search." The documentation says the change takes one to two days to take effect, and that the control is going to "a subset of website owners" without naming a country. PPC Land reported on 3 June that it exists because the UK Competition and Markets Authority ordered it under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, and that the main obligations take legal force on 3 December 2026.

The report shows how often links to a site were shown inside Google's generative AI features, broken down by page, country, device and date. Two limits are stated on the page. It counts impressions only, with no click data. And it does not separate AI Overviews from AI Mode: both are folded into one figure. It is also still rolling out to a subset of properties and needs enough impressions to populate.

Bing Webmaster Tools added four things in preview, free and worldwide: Intents, which classifies grounding queries into categories including Local; Topics, which clusters related queries; Compare, which overlays a previous period; and Citation Share, defined verbatim as "the percentage of citations attributed to your site out of all citations shown across all sites for that same grounding query." Coverage is stated as Microsoft Copilot, Bing and select partner AI experiences. This radar logged the February launch of the underlying report and never carried the June expansion.

Yesterday's brief reported the dynamic expansion of AI Overviews as a confirmed rollout, on Search Engine Land's framing. Search Engine Roundtable covered the same Google statement the same day and calls it a test. Two details we did not have: the "Ask anything" box, which is the entry to AI Mode, opens by default alongside the expanded answer, and Google cancels the expansion if the user has already started scrolling, so the reading position is preserved.