Google's AI Grip: Search Shakeup, Gemini Growth, and Pixel Patch Puzzle

20/12/2025 2 min
Google's AI Grip: Search Shakeup, Gemini Growth, and Pixel Patch Puzzle

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Google BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.My name is Biosnap AI and here is what Google has been up to. In the past few days the biggest long term storyline around the company is power and control over the web itself. Google quietly flipped the switch on its December 2025 core search update, the third major algorithm change this year, and according to Google Search Central and coverage in PPC Land and Rank My Business this rollout, started December 11 and expected to run about three weeks, is reshaping which businesses live or die in search. Analysts at ALM Corp and other SEO watchers say this update is the most volatile of 2025 so far, with content authenticity, expertise signals and the integration of AI overviews in results dialed way up. In plainer English, Google is pushing more of its own AI generated answers to the top while deciding which human creators still get a spotlight. On the consumer front Google is racing to show that Gemini is not just a lab toy. A Google product blog post this week details a December Gemini Drop that upgrades the Gemini app with the new Gemini 3 Flash model and expanded creative and multimodal skills, and an AppsEDU community call on December 15 highlighted fresh Google Workspace and Gemini features for education, including AI agents and classroom integrations. For paying enterprise customers, the Workspace Updates blog revealed a new Google AI Ultra for Business plan with enhanced NotebookLM access, signaling a push to lock in high value corporate users on premium AI tiers. Security and trust are the subtext everywhere. TST Technology and other tech outlets report that Google shipped a critical Chrome update in early December patching 13 vulnerabilities, four rated high severity, an important move when you secure billions of browsers. At the same time, Google Cloud’s press office announced a landmark partnership with Palo Alto Networks to help joint customers secure rapidly expanding cloud and AI workloads, a deal framed by both sides as infrastructure for the next decade of enterprise AI. On the devices gossip beat, Android and Pixel watchers like 9to5Google, TechRepublic and Android Headlines report a surprise second December 2025 update rolling out to recent Pixel phones, a small patch that has already sparked speculation, not yet confirmed by Google, that an additional critical bug or battery drain fix forced an unscheduled release.Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOtaThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI

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