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Apple had its WWDC 2025 event yesterday and actually led off right away with Apple Intelligence and then later spoke about its Apple Visual Intelligence. Basically, Apple said they need…

Google is testing adding product tags to photos within Google Local carousel’s photos. These tags are overlayed on the “explore through photos” unit.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Normally, when I see a lot of chatter within the SEO community, I also see the third-party Google search ranking volatility tools heat up. Now I am seeing the tools…

Lex Fridman had a really great interview with Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai. In that interview, Sundar explained that the “current plan is AI mode” will remain in a separate tab…

Over the past week I’ve been hearing that some Google Business Profiles are vanishing or disappearing. I am told that Google is aware of the complaints and are investigating, but…

Ever want to find query data in Google Search Console where the query is a conversational query style? The long long queries that give you insight into how people may…

Google recently rolled out the Live Search feature in the Gemini app. But now Google was caught testing that Live Search feature directly in the main Google Search app, the…

Bing PubHub is being retired, exactly when, I am not sure, but it is going away. Microsoft posted the notice in Bing Webmaster Tools and it links to a document…

It seems the Google Search Console performance report for Google Discover has reported zero impressions and clicks starting Thursday, June 5th, or has underreported impressions and clicks significantly since that…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is testing replacing the “Google Screened” label with a “Google Verified” label for the Local Service Ads. I am also seeing these results come up with no labels at…

Google is testing a new label on its search ads within the Google Search results that says “Learn more about Sponsored results.” This label is on the bottom right of…

When Google announced at Google I/O the launch of AI Mode, Google also announced a number of new features including the ability for Google to take your query and analyze…

Google and Microsoft Bing has added short videos, also referred to as “Shorts” to their AI answers in search, AI Overviews and Copilot Answers. They display short videos in the…

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 updated its…

Google has updated its search ranking algorithm to “more strongly affect the sites that host explicit videos but don’t allow Googlebot to fetch those video files” which may lead to…

Cyrus Shepard posted about how FTX, you know, the company Sam Bankman-Fried ran, is now suing Neil Patel and his company, for $55 million. There are a ton of whoppers…

Bloomberg’s Emily Chang interviewed Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, last night at the Bloomberg Tech summit in San Francisco. The interview covered a ton of topics and was pretty fast-paced. It…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google Search ranking volatility is heating up today, June 4th. Many of the tools and some of the chatter within the SEO community are showing signs of a Google ranking…

Microsoft is testing putting a shopping bag icon on its “Shop Now” Bing Ads layout. I cannot replicate this but normally Bing shows a button that says “Shop Now” and…

Google is now testing summarizing the stories listed on Google Discover with generative AI. Some are calling this adding AI Overviews to Google Discover, which I guess is about the…

Microsoft is testing a new layout in Bing for the people also ask section. Instead of the carousel card format, Bing is testing more of a list view with the…

Navah Hopkins, someone I have quoted here countless times, and a super respected member of the PPC community, is now the Ads Liaison for Microsoft Advertising. Navah wrote on LinkedIn,…

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. There is a…

Since Google began rolling out AI Overviews in Google Search, publishers, site owners, SEOs, etc have been posting screenshots of their Google Search Console performance reports that show how clicks…

Google has published a new help document named About Video ads across Google surfaces. As you know, Google announced new video ad formats at Google Marketing Live and we’ve seen…

Microsoft is testing using a blue boxed in design for the Bing Search snippet extensions. Normally this would be listed out as text, in a list type of view format,…

Microsoft is now labeling some of the Bing vehicle ads with the condition of those automobiles. They include ‘New,’ ‘Used,’ and ‘CPO’ (Certified Pre-Owned). Also highlights features like ‘Single Owner,’…

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. You can check…

It’s time for the big Google Webmaster report where I recap all the big organic Google Search related news I covered here over the past month. We had Google I/O…

Microsoft is testing a new “Chat with Copilot” section within the Bing Search results. This section will give you query and question ideas that expand your original search query done…

At Google I/O, Google demoed a feature named Gemini Live, where you point your smartphone camera at stuff and then ask Gemini questions about what you are looking at. Well,…

Google is testing a blue “Quick View” button on the popular product listings within Google Search. The funny thing is, prior to 2018, Google did have a quick view button…

Google Lens will soon work on YouTube shorts, all you need to do is pause the YouTube Short, then make a circle on the portion of the video you want…

This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous on Monday and Tuesday, June 2nd and 3rd. Any stories published here will be…

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. If you want…

This week, we covered more Google Search ranking volatility around May 29th. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said web publishing is not dead and had a great interview with The Verge….

Google may extend the Google Search box so you can see more of your longer query. As you know, people are doing longer searches these days, and sometimes, you can’t…

Gary Illyes from Google described how search engine crawlers have changed over the years. This came up in the latest Search Off the Record podcast with Martin Splitt and Gary…

Google has once again confirmed that in order for Google to show your content as a citation or link in AI Mode, it generally needs to be crawled and then…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google Search ranking and results have experienced increased volatility over the past 24 hours or so – the search results are heating up. I am noticing an uptick in SEO…

For the past several months, we’ve been seeing signs that the Google Maps and local questions and answers feature is being phased out. Well, it seems like it is not…

Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed on X that ads can show above/below the AI Overviews or within the AI Overviews but not in both positions at the same time….

Microsoft is testing using alternative names and titles for the related searches section within the Bing Search results. I was able to trigger four alternatives to the normal related searches…

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 CEO, Sundar…

Nilay Patel of The Verge had a great one-on-one conversation with Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO. Nilay did put on the pressure around how the changes with AI Overviews and AI…

With Google rolling out AI Mode in the US and calling it the future of Google Search, many SEOs are worried about how organic search will lead traffic and conversions…

Google Search now lets you see the pricing history and pricing details, including more store details of a specific product, directly from the search results. When you click on the…

Google needs even more queries, the 10% growth isn’t enough, so Google AI Overviews is testing query expansion tabs at the top of the AI Overviews. We’ve seen variations of…

Google announced it will be removing the notifications and email archive section from Google Merchant Center into Google Merchant Center Next on June 25, 2025. After June 25th, Google Merchant…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Microsoft is testing a sticky footer in the Bing Search results that show related searches. So the related searches section sticks to the footer, making these related searches way more…

Google is testing replacing the “Dive deeper in AI Mode” button with “Follow up in AI Mode.” This is the button you can sometimes see at the bottom of the…

Bing added a new section to its search results named “travel stories.” You can see them when you enter in a popular travel country or city, and then look on…

Google AI Overviews can now show an image carousel that you can swipe through to go to images. I am not able to replicate this myself but it seems like…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is testing a new menu, tab bar, under the search bar within Google Shopping. This new bar most visibly has the super G logo and then contains additional options…

Google has confirmed that AI Mode reporting will be coming to Google Search Console. It is currently not yet in Search Console, but it will be coming as part of…

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 there…

This week was a huge week for search; between Google I/O and Google Marketing Live – it was just a lot. We had two unconfirmed Google ranking updates, one on…

Google released AI Mode in the U.S. a couple of days ago and Tom Critchlow and Patrick Stox noticed that Google prevented you from tracking referrer data from AI Mode….

I am seeing some complaints within the local SEO community about a surge or spike in name changes happening to Google Business Profiles. It is unclear how widespread the issue…

Google has added a setting for AdSense publishers to pick the positions of their anchor ads. They can pick from up to six different settings depending on top/bottom or side…

Google is testing a “recently viewed” label in the search results, next to search result snippets that you have clicked on in your recent search history. This is similar to…

Google has added a new display ads option for ad intents. The new option lets you pick between always show display ads with organic search results or show search ads…

Google Search Console’s Discover performance report has a weird bug. It started early yesterday morning where a blue notice prompt would show up and have a mysterious hashtag, with the…

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google has published two new help documents on the topic of AI; one on guidance on using generative AI content on your website and the second on AI features and…

Microsoft is testing a double border style around the Bing Search box. This goes around the main search box but not the auto-complete box, I believe.

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 had a lot of news out of Google I/O, as you would expect. The big item, which we predicted, was that AI Mode is now available to all US…

Surprise, surprise, as I called it, Google is expanding AI Overviews into more regions. I mean, we saw this being leaked a couple of weeks ago, so it is not…

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…

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…