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Google What People Are Saying Expandable Carousels

We’ve seen various flavors of the what people are saying sections in the search results before. We’ve even see Google use AI to return results within them. But it seems…

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Google Tests New Shopping Search Filter On Mobile

Google is testing a new filter for its shopping results in the mobile search results. Instead of showing a single filter menu, Google is showing a product image carousel line…

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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: February 13, 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. Reddit blamed Google’s…

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Google Sort By Date For News Is Buggy

Danny Sullivan, the Search Liaison at Google Search, confirmed there is a bug with the sort by date feature in the Google Search news tab. Danny said on Twitter “if…

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Google Doodle For Seasonal Holidays

Google has this interesting Christmas looking Doodle on its home page today with the alt tag that says Seasonal Holidays 2021. When you click on it, it goes to a…

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Google April 2023 Reviews Update Done Rolling Out

The Google April 2023 reviews update finished rolling out yesterday afternoon on April 25, 2023. It took 13 days and two hours to roll out this expanded reviews update, which…

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Programming Note: Offline For Shavuot On Friday

This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous, from Thursday night, May 25th, through late Saturday night, May 27th. Any stories published…

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Google Local Service Ads Mass Policy Violation Notices

Google sent out mass policy violation notices to some Local Service Ads advertisers. The notice is being sent via email and the subject line reads, “Your account has policy violations…

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Microsoft Bing Tests Related Searches On Left

Microsoft Bing is testing placing the related searches list on the left side of the search results page. Normally, Microsoft places these related searches on the right side of the…

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Microsoft: Bing Chat Outperforms GPT-4 But Its Pricey

Microsoft Bing’s CEO, Mikhail Parakhin said on Twitter that Bing Chat outperforms raw GPT-4 but it comes at an expense. He said, “It is outperforming according to our measurements,” when…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: October 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. Google shocked us…

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Google Search Stops Indenting Results

Google has stopped the indented results, something Google has been doing for well over a decade. Instead, Google will just list out the result it would have indented in the…

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New Google Electric Bikes Guidelines

Google has posted new guidelines to the Google Merchant Center for electric or motorized bikes. You must now list the max speed of the electric bike, if you do not,…

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 3, 2022

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 IndexNow, after…

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Huge Drop In Google People Also Ask

Google seems to be showing the people also ask feature a lot less often now on desktop. According to Semrush and RankRanger, it was at about 60% of queries showing…

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Confirmed: Google Ads Advertiser Console Delayed

So while Google Search is currently having massive indexing issues, the Google Ads advertiser console is having issues loading ad spend and other data. Google confirmed the issue saying “affected…

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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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Copilot App To Get Plugin Support

As you know, Microsoft released the Copilot App for iOS and Android but it does not support plugins like the Bing App. But don’t worry, Copilot will soon support plugins.

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Google Business Profile Suspensions Spiking

There seems to be a much higher level of Google Business Profiles suspended in the past couple of weeks than one would typically see. So a higher number of businesses…

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Google Search Full Coverage Label On Desktop

Google since 2019 had this “full coverage” label for news stories that showed up in mobile search results. I am not sure if this ever was presented in the desktop…

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Google Search Feature: Coupons From Stores

Almost a year ago, Google began to integrate clipable coupons into Google Shopping. Well, now it seems that Google is testing showing those clipable coupons directly in Google Search, and…

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Google Christmas Decorations Are Live For 2024

Christmas is around the corner and Google finally posted its Christmas decorations in Google Search today. We already have the Hanukkah decorations live and now we have the Christmas decorations…

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Google Ads Adds Legal Waiver For Images

Google has added a new checkbox for you to comply with when you upload images to Google Ads. This is Google having you sign a waiver that “own all legal…

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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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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 17, 2021

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 now…

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Google On A Site Dropping In Ranking For One Keyword

Gary Illyes from Google spoke about the topic of a website dropping in rankings for a single keyword or single keyword phrase while ranking fine for others. Can it happen?…

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New Google Merchant Center Badge Eligibility Report

Google Merchant Center can now show you which products are automatically eligible for badges. Krik Williams shared a screenshoot showing off this new feature and Search Engine Land received confirmation…