AINewsnow

Google moved to inline citations in August. CTR quadrupled. Here's what to optimize for now.

In August 2026, Google changed how AI Overviews display citations. Instead of a source list at the bottom of the card, citations now appear inline, as numbered links embedded directly in the AI-generated text, next to the claim they support. Early data from publishers who shared Search Console numb…

Read the full story at DEV Community — AI ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-10-31 08:00 · DEV Community — AI
    Google moved to inline citations in August. CTR quadrupled. Here's what to optimize for now.

More stories

  1. Mistral releases weights for trillion-parameter 'Le Chonk' model — Mistral AI News
  2. Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon, a cybersecurity-focused frontier model — Google DeepMind Blog
  3. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic to honor shared robots.txt opt-out for AI training — OpenAI News
  4. Google says AI search features are reducing search revenue as Q3 losses widen — Ars Technica AI
  5. US tech stocks fall as earnings misses deepen AI spending concerns — Financial Times AI
  6. Finnish police open criminal probe into Google data center forest clearing — The Hill Technology
  7. Reddit shifts to primarily logged-in experience as AI search cuts traffic — Axios AI+
  8. Google adds hundreds of textbooks from OpenStax and S Chand to Gemini Notebook — Google: The Keyword

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →