Google Just Changed How Homeowners Find Landscape Companies — Is Your Business Ready?

About this episode

Jack Jostes discusses significant changes announced by Google that impact how homeowners find landscape companies.

Google just announced some of the biggest changes to search, AI, and online discovery in more than 25 years. In this episode, Jack Jostes breaks down the four announcements from Google I/O 2026 that landscape business owners should actually pay attention to—and ignores the rest of the hype. From Google's completely redesigned AI-powered search experience to new tools like Gemini Spark, Ask Maps, AI-assisted purchasing, and Ask YouTube, Jack explains what these updates mean for landscape compa...

People in this episode

Host: Jack Jostes

Topics covered

• Google search changes
• landscape business marketing
• AI in search
• online discovery
• landscape industry updates

Keywords

• Google
• landscape companies
• AI-powered search
• online discovery
• Google I/O 2026
• Gemini Spark
• Ask Maps
• Ask YouTube

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Google, Gemini Spark, Ask Maps, AI-assisted purchasing, Ask YouTube

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