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Google kicked off September with headlines flashing about its ongoing dominance in artificial intelligence. Just last month, it expanded AI Mode in Search to over 180 countries and pumped agentic features into search results. If you opt into the AI Mode experiment in Labs, you now get dining advice tailored just for you with personalized wisdom—and you can share those AI insights with your friends. Major buzz surrounded the Made by Google event, where fresh Pixel 10 phones debuted, powered by the Google Tensor G5 chip and loaded with Gemini Nano features. These phones don’t just snap photos; now you can edit pics with simple text or voice commands, and Gemini Live gives you a more natural conversational assistant. Deep Think, their new reasoning AI tool, became available for Google AI Ultra subscribers and somehow managed to snag top honors at the International Mathematical Olympiad. It’s a flex that cements Google’s position as the ultra brain of Silicon Valley—one that keeps evolving monthly, as noted on Google’s official AI news blog.
Switching gears, the business world is buzzing about Google’s September 2025 crackdown on business profile links. According to Advertising Business, Google imposed strict new daily checks and sweeps on Google Business Profiles—duffed links get you suspended, and even the robots.txt excuse won’t save you. Local business owners are suddenly hyper-aware that to show up in search and maps, their profiles have to be squeaky clean and super optimized. Prospect Genius calls out Google’s August 26 Spam Update, which aims to scrub spammy tactics from local results: phony reviews, keyword-stuffed names, fake locations—the AI system nicknamed SpamBrain is hunting it all. While some scammy profiles do disappear, everyone is hustling to stay compliant lest their business vanish overnight. Visibility Boosters reports local businesses are focused on streamlining their Google profiles and stacking up verified reviews, as the local pack is now determined as much by trust signals as by proximity.
On the developer front, 9to5Google documented updated Google Play services with design tweaks, extra theft protection, smarter phone verification, and a new Play Store task-based search, making everyday user experience smoother and safer. Meanwhile, Google is making waves in Asia with the announcement of its first Chinese-language Search Central Live conference in Hong Kong, scheduled for October. PPC Land revealed that this event will focus on confronting international ecommerce challenges—from SEO myths to cross-border content crawling, with every session presented by Google’s resident search experts.
Legal drama hasn’t knocked Google off its game. Tech Field Day News reports a US judge ruled Google can keep its Chrome browser but must open up parts of its search data to rivals and stop select exclusive deals. No forced sell-off means Alphabet shares got a quick boost, reassuring the market that Google’s golden goose—search—remains untouched for now.
The social media landscape didn’t serve up major drama this week, but Google’s business events and search-centric innovations have small business communities chattering across LinkedIn groups, tech podcasts, and forum threads. A new round of Google My Business workshops is popping up on sites like Eventbrite, promising hopeful entrepreneurs the inside track on the art of getting found online—and avoiding sudden profile wipeouts. As fall rolls in, it’s clear Google is keeping its foot firmly on the gas across hardware, AI, policy, and global outreach—all things anyone with skin in the digital game is watching closely.
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