Venkat
Senior writer covering browsers and search
Search Engine Watch
Venkat is a senior writer at Search Engine Watch whose reporting follows browser developments, emerging features and changes across the search industry. His published work covers AI search, search interfaces and PPC developments. Paid Media Collective credits his reporting on sponsored recommendations appearing as conversational follow-ups in Google AI Mode.
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AI Mode ads can read like the next step in a conversation
Venkat’s search examples show sponsored recommendations framed as conversational follow-ups. The useful creative question is whether an ad makes sense after the user’s preceding query, rather than only beside a conventional keyword result.
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