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Google is testing a new format for the Things to know section where instead of showing the results in a list view, Google is showing them side-by-side.

Martin Splitt from Google replied to a question on LinkedIn about what we should be concerned about when it comes to rendered and indexed. One of the questions was about…

I don’t think this is super new but did you know Google Search can show people also searching images, not just people also ask, not just people also search. And…

Google is testing arrow buttons icons at the end of the title link in the search result snippets. Google is also testing them in Sitelinks. I guess<< this is a way…

Similar to the Amazon-style Google product search result carousel snippet, we are seeing other variations of it. This shows products from the retailer; within the search result snippet, you can…

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. DOJ asks the…

Google AI Overviews seems to be slower with removing citations/content from its index that it serves for answers, when compared to web search. This includes when a page or section…

Google launched a new feature in the Google App for iOS named Page Annotation. When you are browsing a web page in the Google App native browser, Google can “extract…

The Department of Justice has asked the judge in the Google monopoly ruling case to force Google to sell Chrome, restrict Android from serving Google Search, and ban its default…

Google Search is testing showing icons and labels in the sitelinks within the search results snippets. I am seeing icons for a phone, price tag, fork/knife, map pin and information…

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Google has updated its site reputation abuse policy to expand what is included in abuse. It now includes third-party content that has first-party involvement or content oversight. Google also dropped…

Google announced new shopping features through Google Lens to help with in-store shopping and local shopping. Google said, “Google Lens can quickly show you product insights tailored to the store…

Google has updated its guide to Google Search ranking systems to mention at the top of the page that it uses both page-level and site-wide signals for search rankings. There…

Is OpenAI, its ChatGPT service, taking market share from Google? Well, maybe. Rand Fishkin of Sparktoro posted his assumptions based on a mix of data from SimilarWeb and Datos that…

Microsoft is testing categorizing the videos within its Bing video search results. Bing’s video search interface can show at the top a featured video for the query, then trending videos…

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Over a year and a half ago, Google told us they would be dropping the page experience report from Google Search Console in the “coming months.” Well, it took many…

Google has begun testing removing EU-based news publishers in Google News, Google Search, and Google Discover for 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and…

There are new reports that Google is showing more and more YouTube videos in Google Discover. There is also a new study that says YouTube is the most cited source…

Google may be testing removing the “more results” button from the people also ask results within Google Search. In some searches, on some browsers, I see the “more results” button…

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. We are finally…

Last week we covered how Google’s John Mueller cautioned about using Google Trends for content ideas. Google’s John Mueller also agreed that this can be an issue for Google Search’s…

Some are seeing Microsoft placing ads in the Bing Search results mixed in between the organic results. Google has been testing this for a while now, calling it dynamic ad…

Google Search has been placing trending labels in the search results for a while now. But there is a new variation of that, showing a “Trending this week” label in…

Google has been telling us for many months that they will be rolling out ads for AI Overviews. Last month, Google said they will soon show in the US mobile…

The Google November 2024 core update started rolling out Monday, November 11, at 3:30 pm ET and we saw some movement begin around Wednesday/Thursday but it was not that widespread….

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Google launched the November 2024 core update earlier this week, and we are now starting to see movement and ranking shifts because of it. Google AI Overviews is testing using…

Google Maps will now show you if you can find products nearby, like you’d see in directly in Google Search and Google Shopping. This “Products nearby” carousel now shows up…

Google has released a native app for Google Gemini for iPhone devices. This comes after Google added Gemini to the Google app on iOS, created a native Gemini app for…

Google sent emails to some Google Merchant Center advertisers and free users about a new feature in Chrome where the Google web browser will showcase your promotions directly in the…

Google seems to be testing a new AI chat feature for e-commerce searches and retailers that is titled “Get help from Google’s sales assistant.” This will launch an AI chat…

Bing Search has updated its autosuggest (auto complete) search bar to include rich entity cards and popular follow-on searches directly in the suggestion pane. Jordi Ribas, the Head of Search…

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. The Google November…

As you know, the Google November 2024 core update started rolling out Monday, November 11, at 3:30 pm ET. So far, some sites are seeing really big movements, like massive…

Google’s John Mueller cautioned about relying on and overusing Google Trends for content ideas and generating content for your website. John said that it is “easy to go overboard with…

Google has announced an expansion of anchor ads named collapsible anchors. Collapsible anchors automatically enlarge the ad height on mobile devices for better viewability. Your users can collapse them to…

Google is testing using a larger but thinner font for the search results snippets. I am not sure which one I like better, one looks like a normal font, and…

Microsoft seems to be testing a new section in the Bing Search results titled “content from.” This shows more links to popular sections from that site, based on the user’s…

Google is testing more of those expandable sections in the mobile search results. We have seen them for ads/sponsored listings and other topics but now also for short videos, articles…

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This week, Google sent an email to some Google Ads advertisers warning that they may lose access to use Customer Match with their ads cause harm to users or create…

Google will be changing how it handles the first-party cookie controls on AdSense sites. Google said, “We’re making some changes to how first-party cookies are managed in your AdSense account…

A couple of months ago, we reported how Google Search will label if an image was AI-generated, edited by photo editing software or taken with a camera by working with…

Google has added a new promotion type to Google Merchant Center named “Sale events.” Sale events are a type data that you can submit on Google and are shown on…

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 released the…

Google has begun rolling out the third core update for the year, the November 2024 core update. This update started to roll out on November 11, 2024 at around 3:30…

Google’s John Mueller posted some SEO advice on how to handle version history pages, for product releases, specifications, APIs and other version history. This advice is pretty similar to how…

The meanings of words and brands can change over time. The terms can drift to different meanings. Term drift happens, although it is rare amongst words and less rare with…

A couple of weeks ago, Google announced the new features for travel search ads through integration with travel feeds. These may now be out in the wild, as we are…

Google Search has been rolling out this new expandable section in the search results titled “current sales.” I guess Google is able to figure out what is a sale and…

Google is showing both seller ratings and product ratings on a single Google Shopping Ad unit. It is a bit weird to see both ratings, and it can potentially 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. I posted the…

While Google has yet to confirm a Google search ranking update, we have seen tremendous volatility in the Google Search results this month. Google did however confirm it can downgrade…

Google may be testing displaying sponsored labels in different positions within the local map finder view. Some of the ads have sponsored labels on the left side, where it lists…

HARO, Help a Reporter Out, now known as the Connectively Platform is being discontinued, and shut down, on December 9th. For SEOs, it was a way to get attention and…

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…

This week in search we covered the election day Google Search ranking volatility. We also had a status update on where those helpful content update victims are currently sitting. There…

Google will stop supporting the Google Local Service Ads app starting on January 6, 2024. An email sent to advertisers said, “On January 6, 2025, we will be turning down…

Google seems to be testing the ability to have a conversation with the Google Search app, where it Google Search continues to adapt and refine the search query, as you…

Google’s Gary Illyes and John Mueller, along with Bing’s Fabrice Canel and probably other representatives from these search engines spent time in Dublin this week to attend the IETF 121…

Microsoft Bing has these AI-powered buying guide that can show up at the top right section for some e-commerce related queries. Microsoft spoke about these buying guides back in June…

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Google is testing showing AI Overviews and generative AI results directly in the people also ask section. People also ask generally are featured snippet powered but now Google is testing…

Google Search can show who wrote the review directly in the search results snippet. Google has this “reviewed by” rich result element next to some search results that names the…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about when it makes sense to host images or other content on separate subdomains or domains. John said it makes sense if Google is having…

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 is…

I know we are coming off a heated and very nerve-wracking election day but I am noticing some big Google Search ranking volatility kicking up in the past 24-hours. It…

I’ve been wondering how the majority of sites hit by Google’s September 2023 helpful content update are doing. Glenn Gabe is tracking about 400 of them, so he provided an…

Microsoft announced its monthly Microsoft Advertising updates and while we covered some of these before, we did not cover the changes to Shopping Audience campaigns. Microsoft made a couple of…

Google has been rolling out a new Google Shopping interface, we’ve covered it numerous times, and I think it is now rolled out. But Google is now promoting the new…

Google can show a bag icon on some of the sponsored search shopping ads. This can show next to the “Shop now” text, where you can either go to 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 seems to…

Google may be pushing out a new Search Console feature where for the partial data, the most recent data it has, which was not yet finalized, shows up as dotted…

In April, Google moved the search results estimated count (the about X results) section to only display it after you click on the “tools” search option. Well, now, in some…

After a month or so of testing, it seems like the “sponsored” labels are rolling out across Bing’s search ads. I am now seeing them across all browsers and searches…

A couple of weeks ago, Google created a proposal on the schema Github proposing expanding and enhancing shipping data in schema.org. One of the enhancements is a new schema type…

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 discussion…

As many of you know, OpenAI launched Search within ChatGPT last week. And as many suspected, the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI seems to still be strong, because it seems…

Google is testing a new feature in the AI Overviews within Google Search. There is this “highlight” button that when you click on, it lets you highlight text in the…

Google has made a small update to its crawl budget documentation page to add a best practice is to have the same links on both the mobile and desktop version…

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. We are seeing…