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Bing Chat May Support Third-Party Plugins Soon

We know that OpenAI’s ChatGPT supports third-party plugins and soon, Bing Chat may also support third-party plugins. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, was asked about the topic and he…

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Google Will Use Generative AI In Search

The Wall Street Journal has an interview with Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, on AI, the future of search and all this Bard and AI stuff. In short how AI might…

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Google Local Pack Displays Booked Reservations

Google has let you book reservations within the local pack and via Google Assistant for a while now. But what may be new is that Google may show you if…

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Google Local Finder With Blended Query Results

I don’t know if this is new (sorry Mordy) but Google is showing this blended local finder result set that seems to bridge two or more different but similar queries…

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Google Ads Tests AI To Help You Create Ads

Google Ads is running a small test to help you create ads using AI. Google Bard does not power this, but it is a form of artificial intelligence designed to…

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Programming Note: Offline For Thursday & Friday

This is a programming note that I will be completely offline on Thursday and Friday (also Saturday) of Passover, from Wednesday night April 5th through Saturday night April 8th. Any…

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April 2023 Google Webmaster Report

Last month was jammed packed with Google search news including the Google March 2023 broad core update starting on March 15th and completing on March 28th. We had the end…

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Bing AI-Generated Stories In Search Results

A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft Bing started to roll out “stories” in the search results side panel. Those stories are AI-generated stories, created by generative AI and not by…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 4, 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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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 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 seeing…

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Bing Chat Gets Hit By Robot Scrapers Too

Since there have been webpages on the internet, scrapers have been out there scraping content off those sites for one reason or another. Well, even Microsoft’s Bing Chat has to…

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Google Maps Blocked 20% More Fake Reviews In 2022

Google released spam and fraud prevention stats for Google Maps and local search. In short, Google blocked 21% more reviews, 5% more photos, 40% more videos, and 5% more fake…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 31, 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 Business Profiles Let’s You Copy A Menu

Google Business Profiles seems to allow some restaurants to copy a menu that it thinks it pulled for that restaurant from another source and use that copied menu to start…

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Bing Tests Official Site Label

Microsoft Bing is testing adding an “official site” label in the search results. If you search for a specific site, you may find that Bing adds to the title of…

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Google Search Tests Products Gaining Attention Carousel

Google Search seems to be testing a new product carousel titles “products gaining attention.” I assume this carousel shows products that are being viewed or clicked on more often than…

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Bing Chat To Ultimately Remove Chat Limits

Right now you cannot sit all day and ask Bing Chat questions, no matter how lonely you are, at some point, Bing will say to give it a break. But…

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ChatGPT Generated Google Business Review Spam

It looks like review spammers are using ChatGPT and other AI tools to generate fake reviews. These reviews are being posted in Google Business Profile local listings and causing a…

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Microsoft Bing Chat May Share Ad Revenue With Publishers

Microsoft may share the ad revenue it generates through the Bing Chat responses with some publishers it obtains that content from. Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft wrote, “exploring placing ads in…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 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 has finished…

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Google Perspectives, About This Author & More Goes Live

Google has launched the new perspectives feature, added an “about this author” section, globally rolled out “about this result” and made it easier to access “about this page” in the…

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Bing Chat Math Results Rolling Out Nicer Formatting

Microsoft Bing will soon be rolling out cleaner and nicer math result formatting. Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft Bing said this is already out to 10% of users for all chat…

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Bing Chat Bests Google Bard Says SEOs

By now, many of you, not all of you, have played with both Bing Chat and Google Bard. So far, about 70% of SEOs find Bing Chat to be better…

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Local Ranking Study For 2023 From Whitespark

The folks over at Whitespark has published there 2023 local ranking factors study, where they asked dozens of local SEO experts to rank what they think are the most important…

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Google Currently Looking Into AMP Support in GA4

As you know, Google Analytics 4 does not support tracking AMP pages. Well, Google’s Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, said on Friday that Google is “currently looking into it and will…

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Bing Chat Image Creator Now Working

A few days ago, I reported that Bing Chat has now integrated the Bing Image Creator tool. But the truth is, it was not integrated, not until at least after…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 23, 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. Microsoft’s CEO of…