{"id":9922,"date":"2026-06-13T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=9922"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:41:27","slug":"google-ai-mode-tests-citation-counts-amp-favicons-under-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=9922","title":{"rendered":"Google AI Mode Tests Citation Counts &amp;amp; Favicons Under Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-robot-with-calculator-WBIgxhrG.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Robot With Calculator\" title=\"Google AI Mode Tests Citation Counts &amp;amp; Favicons Under Results\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google is testing moving the results count with favicons from above the citations and links cards in the AI Mode results, to under\/below the citations and links cards. I am not sure if this will make a difference either way to publishers, but Google is always testing changes.<\/p> <p>This test was spotted by Brodie Clark at SERP alerts and he posted some screenshots on X. Here is what the test looks like with the counts\/favicons on the bottom:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-mode-citations-count-bottom-WeZnMHSW.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Mode Citations Count Bottom\" title=\"Google AI Mode Tests Citation Counts &amp;amp; Favicons Under Results\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Here is what it typically looks like:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-ai-mode-citations-count-top-SBTcZQZp.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Ai Mode Citations Count Top\" title=\"Google AI Mode Tests Citation Counts &amp;amp; Favicons Under Results\u63d2\u56fe2\" \/><\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Mode #Tests #Citation #Counts #ampamp #Favicons #Results1781322087<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is testing moving the results count with favicons from above the citations and links cards in the AI Mode results, to under\/below the citations and links cards. I am not sure if this will make a difference either way to publishers, but Google is always testing changes. This test was spotted by Brodie Clark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[877,10412,4529,3147,75,1561,308,1706],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-ampamp","tag-citation","tag-counts","tag-favicons","tag-google","tag-mode","tag-results","tag-tests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}