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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 7, 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 launched Gemini,…

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Google SGE Tests Export To Gmail & Google Docs

Google SGE, the Search Generative Experience, is testing the ability to export the responses it provides to your queries to Gmail and Google Docs. There is an export button on…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 6, 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. Bing launched Deep…

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Google Search Lite Knowledge Panel Snippet

Google is testing a lite version of a knowledge panel, maybe a knowledge panel “snippet” in the mobile search results. It is a snippet that looks like a sub-knowledge panel…

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Google Search “You Visit Often” Label

When Google announced its more personalized search experience last month, Google said it would show you results you visit more often at the top. Google said those results would be…

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Google How-To Rich Results Also Returning To Search?

As a reminder, in August, Google stopped showing the How-to rich results on the mobile search results, and then in September, they did the same for desktop results. Well, they…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 5, 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 expanded its…

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December 2023 Google Webmaster Report

Here is the December 2023 Google webmaster report for all of you. Here I recap what happened and changed with Google Search on the organic space over the past month…

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Google SGE Tests Search By Image Feature

Google SGE, the Search Generative Experience, is testing the ability to not only type your questions with text but also to upload images to your query. So yes, Google SGE…

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Google Groups Gets Ranking Boost In Google Search?

It seems like Google Search is now giving its old Google Groups forum area a massive ranking and visibility boost in the Google Search results. This started a couple of…

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Google Search Central Countdown 2023 Microsite

Google launched a special page on its Search Central portal with a countdown to 2023. This page has these hidden doors that contain resources that they found interesting or were…

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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 1, 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. I am celebrating…

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20 Years Covering The Search Industry

20 years ago tomorrow (December 2, 2003), I started this blog aimed at archiving some of the best discussions within the search marketing community…

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Google Pay Accepted Labels In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted”…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 30, 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…

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Google Ads API 2024 Schedule

Google has published its tentative schedule for the Google Ads API release dates and sunset dates for 2024. Google publishes this annually in order to “bring greater clarity to your…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 29, 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…

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GPT-4 Turbo Coming To Microsoft Copilot / Bing Chat

Microsoft will be bringing GPT-4 Turbo to Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. It is unclear when Microsoft will update its AI models from GPT-4 to GPT-4 Turbo, but we…

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Google Search Console Down Again For Many

Google Search Console has been having reliability issues since yesterday, as we covered. It is currently down for many users across the world. The outage started again this morning at…

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Google Search Console Currently Down

Google Search Console seems to be down right now. If you try to access it, you will get a 500 server error. I suspect Search Console will be back up…

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Google Tests Line Separators Between Sitelinks

Over the past week or so, Google has been testing line separators between Sitelinks in the Google Search results for snippets. This feature test really gives a lot of screen…

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New Google Ads Value Based Bidding Guide

Google has released a new four-page PDF document named Testing value based bidding using Google Ads campaign experiments guide. This document can be useful for those who want to test…

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Google Tests New Flight Prices Rich Result?

Google may be testing a new type of rich result for flight prices. This test shows a section under the flight search snippet that contains the dates, trip details and…

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Google Removed The Robots FAQs Document

Earlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 22, 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 is testing…

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Google “Simple Search” – New Search Refinement ...

Google may be testing a new “Simple Search” feature that may dumb-down the search results when you want something more simple. Google shows the “Simple Search” +Topics refinement button at…

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Google Fast Pickup Or Delivery Search Box

Google is testing a new section to show which products they have in their index that are available for fast pickup or fast delivery. Google already knows how long it…

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Google Bard Can Now Understand YouTube Videos

Google Bard can now respond with answers based on the spoken words in a YouTube video. Google said, it is “expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so…

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Google Search “Ask A Doctor” PPA

Google Search has what looks like the people also ask (PPA) section but titled “Ask a doctor.” I am not sure if this is new, because I suspect since I…