Gemini

A blueprint-style illustration of Chrome's new tab page with an inline Gemini AI prompt box, a tab-picker dropdown, and a webpage rendered in a side panel.

Chrome's New Tab Page Is Now a Gemini Prompt Box (All 3.5 Billion of Them)

On April 16, 2026, Google changed the default behavior of Chrome's new tab page for US English users. Clicking the AI Mode button no longer loads google.com/search. It opens an inline Gemini prompt box with Deep Search, Canvas, Nano Banana 2 image creation, and a plus

Pop-art illustration of a Gemini diamond sorting ad rectangles while red DISAPPROVED stamps hit individual ads and a tilted scale shifts from suspensions to disapprovals

Google's 80% Cut in False Ad Suspensions Came From Moving the Enforcement to the Ad Level

Google blocked 8.3 billion bad ads in 2025 and suspended 24.9 million advertiser accounts, according to its 2025 Ads Safety Report published April 16, 2026. Gemini-powered review cut incorrect advertiser suspensions by 80 percent year-over-year. The same week, a London agency saw more than 1,500 ads disapproved

Blueprint-style diagram of AI search traffic flows from Gemini, Perplexity, and ChatGPT to websites with varying stream widths

Gemini vs Perplexity Traffic: Raw Clicks vs. Real Value

Gemini Flipped the Traffic Scoreboard in Four Months In August 2025, Perplexity was sending roughly three times more referral traffic to websites than Google Gemini. By January 2026, Gemini had overtaken it, sending 29% more visitors globally and 41% more in the United States. That reversal happened in about four