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Bing Chat Adds Favicons To Links

Microsoft has added favicons to the links within Bing Chat / Copilot. Favicons should make the links beneath the AI-generated answer more clickable and noticeable to users.

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Google Tests Recipe Carousel Navigation In Search

Google is testing a navigation slider feature in the recipe images within the recipe search results. This illustrates to searchers that they can swipe over the image to see additional…

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Google Local Pack With Websites For Places Box Beneath

Google seems to be testing a new box underneath the local pack that is titled “websites for places.” It shows websites that represent the place listings showing in the local…

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Google Showing Less Image Boxes In Search Results?

Google may be showing fewer image boxes in its search results. SimilarWeb’s RankRanger tool and Semrush tool shows a large drop in the number of image boxes Google is showing…

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Google Search Kwanzaa Decorations Are Live For 2023

Kwanzaa is coming up next week and Google has launched its Kwanzaa decorations for its search results. Just like Google did with Christmas decorations and Chanukah decorations. Search for Kwanzaa…

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Google Search On When Special Characters Don’t Work

Gary Illyes from Google explained how Google Search may or may not handle special characters within Google Search. He explained this in the latest Google SEO office hours at the…

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Bing On Holiday Lockdown – Slows Production Releases

Microsoft is currently on a holiday lockdown for Bing, Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO, Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, wrote on X, “Holiday lockdown…

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Bing Local Businesses For Christmas Search Section

Bing is showing a box in its search results for “Local businesses for Christmas.” This box shows Christmas-related stores, such as groceries, bakeries, etc, that are open now.

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Google Advertiser Verification Program To Accept DBAs

Google Ads has this advertiser verification program and now advertisers can use their DBAs (“doing business as”) or trade names for that verification. Google said these names are accepted if…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 21, 2023

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 had…

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Google Tests Search Snippet Overlay With Site Preview

Google may be testing a new search result snippet interface that overlays more details about that search snippet. It is like a preview feature when you hover over the search…

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Bing Tests Three Dots On Search Result Snippets

Google has added three verticle dots to its search results snippets for years now. It seems like Bing is testing three dots but in a horizontal format. How is that…

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Google Search Having Indexing Issues This Morning?

Google Search may be having issues with indexing or serving this morning. I am seeing tons of reports from SEOs on X that Google is having indexing issues, tons. So…

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Google Search Christmas Decorations Are Live For 2023

Christmas is in five days and today Google has launched its Christmas decorations for Google Search. As an FYI, Google launched the Chanukah decorations on December 3, 2023 but now…

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Google: No SEO Is Perfect

Google’s John Mueller said in the last Google SEO office-hours from December 2023 that there is no such thing as perfect SEO. He said, “in fact no SEO is perfect.”

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Google Ads Tests New Advertiser Identity Verified Label

Google is now testing a new label, in text format, that reads advertised identify verified or identify verified on individual Google Ads in the search results. Previously we saw blue…

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Google Search Tests New Health / Medical Design

Google is testing a new design and layout for its medical and health-related results in the mobile search results. The new design looks like some other user interface tests we’ve…

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Google Analytics 4 Subproperties Now Integrates With AdSense

Google announced additional integration support between Google Analytics 4 and AdSense. Google originally added integration in June 2023 between GA4 and AdSense but now “if you’re using GA4 subproperties or…

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Volatility Holiday Surge

You’d expect that the Google search ranking volatility would calm as we get closer to the holiday break, Christmas timeframe. But no. Google’s search ranking volatility is ever so heated,…

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Google Merchant Center Browsing Experience BETA Card

Google Merchant Center is beta testing a new score card to help merchants understand how their browsing experience score is doing. This card is called “Browsing Experience” and it shows…

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Google Top Stories Adds Video Labels

Google can now show video labels or indicators to some news stories in the top stories section of Google Search. The video label is added under the snippet on the…

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Google Search Console API Is Delayed

For the past few days or so it seems that the Google Search Console API has been delayed. There has been complaints about this on social media and in the…

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Google Local Notice When Review Posting Is Turned Off

At the beginning of this year we covered the updated posting restrictions guidelines for Google Maps where Google said they can turn off posting for a particular place. Well, we…

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Google: You Can Publish Both PDF & HTML Formats

Google’s John Mueller said it is fine to publish some content in both PDF and HTML formats. He said both “can be shown independently in the search results.” If Google…

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Google Ads Step-By-Step Guide To Business Operations Verification

Google Ads will make it easier to complete the business operations verification. Google will add “a step-by-step guide to complete business operations verification, clarify reasons for failing business operations verifications,…

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Google Tests Shaded Tiled Product Results Grid

Google Search and its shopping results have been pretty wild over the past year or so and Google keeps on testing new features in this area. Now we are seeing…

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Google To Rename “Parasite SEO” In Near Future

There has been a bit of controversy over the name parasite SEO in the industry and Google itself doesn’t like the term either. So they said they will be renaming…

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Bing Chat / Copilot Now Testing Notebook Feature

Microsoft Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat, is currently testing a notebook feature and hopes to fully roll out that feature in a “few weeks.” This began testing when Microsoft…

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Google Shopping Results Listings Membership Extension?

A month ago we reported that Google Shopping results had a space for joining membership programs from stores. Now Google is showing these in some shopping listings (not ads) as…

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OpenAI On ChatGPT GPT-4 Getting Lazier

OpenAI responded to the complaints that ChatGPT’s GPT-4 is getting “lazier.” The AI company responded to X saying, “we’ve heard all your feedback about GPT4 getting lazier! we haven’t updated…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 8, 2023

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’s November 2023…