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Career experts say many job applicants are experiencing silence from employers after interviews or applications, leaving candidates uncertain about their standing in a competitive job market. They point to overwhelmed hiring teams, high application volumes, and shifting recruitment practices as contributing factors.
YouTube announced at its Made on YouTube event that Ask YouTube, its conversational AI search feature, will now help users make shopping decisions. Users searching for products can get organized comparisons of attributes and categories, and can ask follow-up questions directly on a video's watch page. YouTube said the feature, powered by a custom Gemini model, was used by over 140 million people in June, up more than 500% since December.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has proposed requiring Google and Android device makers to present search-engine choice screens when phones or Chrome are first set up, followed by annual prompts. The plan also calls for offering users a choice of AI assistants that meet certain security standards, and for requiring search providers to clearly attribute publisher content shown in results. The proposals build on measures introduced earlier in 2026, including a June 3rd rule letting publishers opt out of AI results.
Google is testing a redesigned search experience in Google Messages that shows preview rows of shared photos, videos, links, and places directly on the search homepage, rather than requiring users to tap into separate filter categories. The beta also adds the ability to search within a specific conversation from the main search page and see every matching text message without switching between chats. These changes were found in Google Messages beta version 20260917 through an APK teardown.
An Entrepreneur contributor from Fix Your Search describes a client evaluation process that goes beyond online reviews and websites by physically visiting businesses as a first-time customer would. The method involves timing how long it takes staff to acknowledge a walk-in visitor and scanning the physical space for overlooked flaws like smudged glass, flickering lights or worn signage that owners no longer notice.
Robby Stein, Google's vice president of product for Search, will join a fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, running October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The session, titled 'From MVP to Billions of Users,' will examine how product teams manage the shift from early-stage experimentation to decision-making at massive scale.
Google is trialing a new Discover feature called 'Dive Deeper' that generates an AI summary of a topic instead of directing users to a publisher's article or video. The tool, similar to Search's AI Overviews, is currently being tested with video content, with more formats expected in coming weeks. It also surfaces links to related stories, community reactions, and original sources for users who want to dig further.
A user query on Google about appropriate teen screen time triggered an AI-generated summary instead of the traditional list of website links. The AI response offered a specific number but immediately qualified it, noting factors like sleep, mood, exercise, and school demands could matter more than raw hours.
A team including Eric Ridge and Patrick Reynolds has released TIN, a full-text search extension for Postgres, now generally available for Postgres and Neki databases. It adds a single index type and query operator supporting boolean, phrase, span, fuzzy, wildcard, and regex matching, plus BM25-ranked and count queries.
Google has started actively prompting users on its homepage to set up a video selfie as an optional sign-in method, following its initial announcement of the feature in July. The setup involves recording a short video while turning your head, which Google can use later to verify identity if you're locked out of your account. Google also says the selfie data may be used to estimate a user's age and, with opt-in consent, to improve its broader facial recognition and verification systems.
An Entrepreneur contributor writing for Fix Your Search lays out a practical checklist for business owners to review how they appear online, starting with Google's AI-generated search summary and moving through news mentions, directory listings and Google Business Profile details. The piece frames this audit as the first phase of the author's own client assessment process, aimed at catching outdated or inaccurate information before customers see it.
A marketing strategist warns that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini frequently describe companies inaccurately, citing discontinued products, misattributed positioning, and wrong pricing or locations. He recommends founders run a 'mirror test' by asking multiple AI tools the same questions about their business to see how they're being represented online.