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Google I/O 2025 Search Ranking Volatility Heats Up

Google Search seems to be super volatile today and yesterday, so I will call this the Google I/O 2025 Google unconfirmed update. I am seeing a spike in chatter within…

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Google AI Overviews Tests Hidden Links

Google seems to be testing hiding the citations, link icons, for the AI Overviews default view. So when the AI Overview first loads in the Google Search results, the link…

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Google Begins Rolling Out Discover On Desktop

Since the weekend, Google has started to roll out Google Discover on desktop in many countries and regions. I personally can trigger it in Google New Zealand and some other…

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Google Speeds Up AI Mode

Google AI Mode seems like it got a lot faster over the past day or so. Instead of going through the steps of saying thinking about this, searching for results,…

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Google Search Ranking Update Volatility May 16th

As I mentioned in my Friday video, there seems to be a lot of Google search ranking volatility that kicked off on Friday, May 16th and throughout this weekend. The…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2025

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 confirmed ads…

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Bing Shopping Tests Shading Site Names

Microsoft is testing shading the site names, the brand names, of retailers in the Bing Shopping search results. So the name Amazon is in a blue shaded background color as…

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Google Search AI Shuffle Button

Google is testing a “Shuffle” button in some of its AI generated answers within the Google Search results. When you click the shuffle button, it seems to redo or change…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2025

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 rethinking…

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Google Ads New Ads Funded By Details

Earlier this month, Google updated its Ads Transparency policy to specify that it will display the payment profile name as the payer name for verified advertisers. Well, now we are…

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Google Search Testing New Sub/Second Menu

Google is testing a new sub or secondary menu under the search bar in Google Search. This secondary menu, or sub-menu, is below the main search vertical options and is…

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Google Business Profiles What’s Happening Feature

Google is rolling out a new feature for Google Business Profiles named What’s Happening. This feature is for bars or restaurants to better promote events, deals, and specials prominently at…

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Bing Search APIs To Retire August 11, 2025

Microsoft is going to do away with the Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs as of August 11, 2025. Microsoft posted a notice on its API documentation pages with…

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Google Tests New Pagination Bar On Mobile

Google is also testing a new pagination bar with page numbers and previous and next icons, instead of the “more search results” button. Bing was recently just testing this too…

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Google Updated Its Super G Logo In The iOS App

Google has updated its Google iOS app and with that, the most noticeable change was it updated the super G logo, with a more blended version of the logo. I…

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Google: Stop Using Different URLs For Same Image

Google made what I would consider a logical clarification to its image SEO best practices help document. It now says don’t upload the same image under different URL/file names to…

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Google: Hreflang Doesn’t Guarantee Indexing

Google’s John Mueller explained that just because you use hreflang tags on your pages, it doesn’t mean those pages will be indexed and/or ranked in Google Search. He said on…

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Google Ads With Number Of Followers

Google is showing the number of followers for a Facebook profile in the Google Ads, the search ads. We saw Google testing this for organic / free results two years…

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Google Search Country & Language Parameters

Did you know that you can quickly add parameters to the end of your Google Search URL to see search results in a specific language and/or country? Yes, you can…

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Google AdSense Auto Optimize Adds Site Level Controls

Google AdSense announced that the Auto optimize feature is now configurable at the site level. Google moved it out of the Experiments section and made several improvements to Auto optimize.

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Bing Search Tests Next/Prev Pagination

Microsoft is testing a new pagination bar for its Bing Search results. Instead of the left arrow, page numbers and then right arrow, Bing is testing showing a “Next” button…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2025

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 Search ranking…

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Google Ads New AI Max For Search Campaigns

Google has announced a new Google Ads search campaign feature named AI Max. Google says AI Max for Search campaigns is a “new, one-click feature suite” that brings you a…

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Google Ads Tests Sitelinks Carousels With Images

Google is testing showing images within the sitelinks carousel in Google Ads and sponsored results. We’ve seen images in sitelinks before, numerous times, but here is a version of them…

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New Google Merchant Center Event Promotion

Google has a “new feature,” as it labeled it, within Google Merchant Center, for event promotions. This allows you to promote an event, such as a sale, promotion or occasion,…

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Google Site Commands Display AI Overviews

Here is a weird one – doing a site command and Google presenting an AI Overview summary of the results. In this case, the AI Overview was dead wrong –…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 2025

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…

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Google Tag Gateway For Advertisers & More

Google announced a number of new tag, analytics and data strategies on Friday including a new Google tag gateway for advertisers. Google tag gateway for advertisers allows you to run…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 2, 2025

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 AI Mode…

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Bing Tests Half Underline For Search Bar

Microsoft is not only testing removing the name “Microsoft Bing” from its search bar and logo, Microsoft is also testing shortening the underline under the search tab to about half…