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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google December…
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Google rolls out December 2024 core update, weeks after November update, capping off a year of notable algorithm changes. The post Google Rolls Out December 2024 Core Update appeared first…
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google is testing…
Google announced its “new AI model” named Gemini 2.0 and with that confirmed Google has begun testing using Gemini 2.0 to power AI Overviews in Google Search. Sundar Pichai, Google’s…
Google Ads is testing a new asset type named video. It seems Google may be testing allowing advertisers to add video assets to their search ads and other Google Ads…
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After months of testing, and after Google was the first to make this move, Bing has dropped support for its cache operator and the cache link in Bing Search. Bing…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Google is testing adding the ability to track prices, share and save products you are looking at in Google Search and Google Shopping. Google added these buttons for track price,…
Google Search Console has a bug with its date picker, when you want to compare two date ranges. It seems to default to the last month of data in most…
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