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Google is testing a new sub or secondary menu under the search bar in Google Search. This secondary menu, or sub-menu, is below the main search vertical options and is…

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

Google is testing adding the ability for you to add your own annotations to the Google Search Console performance reports. This is one of the requests SEOs have been asking…

Google is rolling out a new feature for Google Business Profiles named What’s Happening. This feature is for bars or restaurants to better promote events, deals, and specials prominently at…

Microsoft is going to do away with the Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs as of August 11, 2025. Microsoft posted a notice on its API documentation pages with…

Remember the Power Pair from Google Marketing Live 2024? Well, that and several other items of discussion were found in internal emails at Google about the GML 2024 event. It…

Google is also testing a new pagination bar with page numbers and previous and next icons, instead of the “more search results” button. Bing was recently just testing this too…

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

Google Search may be pushing out another search ranking update of sorts, I am seeing more signs of tremors and volatility over the past 24-hours. Some of the tools are…

Google has updated its Google iOS app and with that, the most noticeable change was it updated the super G logo, with a more blended version of the logo. I…

Google made what I would consider a logical clarification to its image SEO best practices help document. It now says don’t upload the same image under different URL/file names to…

We’ve only covered the Department of Justice vs Google documents here and there but here are some documents that may be of interest to the community here. Google said Navboost…

Ryan Moulton, a Google Search engineer who worked on Google’s search rankings algorithms for over 18 years now, went to X to call out some of what the courts are…

Google’s John Mueller explained that just because you use hreflang tags on your pages, it doesn’t mean those pages will be indexed and/or ranked in Google Search. He said on…

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

Google is testing ways to get more people to try AI Mode with a new AI Mode button in the Google Search bar on the Google home page. We’ve seen…

Google seems to be on the verge of rolling out AI Overviews in within Google Search in more countries and regions. We are seeing signs of Google testing AI Overviews…

Google has confirmed a “rare” bug with Google Ads reporting where it can lead to over-reporting click-through rate percentages. Brad Geddes posted about the issue on LinkedIn, and Ginny Marvin,…

Google is testing a new recipe search feature that seems to be powered by AI Overviews, it also seems to be a Search Labs feature. This allows you to see…

Google has a new beta feature to encourage searchers to add comments and have discussions around a specific topic. It is called “Discussions” and has a beta label on it….

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

It’s been calm for the past two weeks but we are seeing Google ranking volatility hit on May 8th. Google held another creator summit, this one in Washington, D.C. Apple…

Google is showing the number of followers for a Facebook profile in the Google Ads, the search ads. We saw Google testing this for organic / free results two years…

Did you know that you can quickly add parameters to the end of your Google Search URL to see search results in a specific language and/or country? Yes, you can…

Google said it is now able to catch “20-times the number of scammy pages,” that it did in the past, leading to a reduction of “these scams by more than…

Google AdSense announced that the Auto optimize feature is now configurable at the site level. Google moved it out of the Experiments section and made several improvements to Auto optimize.

Microsoft is testing a new pagination bar for its Bing Search results. Instead of the left arrow, page numbers and then right arrow, Bing is testing showing a “Next” 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. Google Search ranking…

It has been a couple of weeks since we last reported on a Google search ranking update, I bet a ton of you were wondering if I was feeling off….

Google has launched several new charts within the Google Ads interface. We recently saw the table tree view (which was not 100% new, I was told) and now we are…

Google is testing new buttons and tags on its local listings and local ads. These include a new “read reviews” button, various appointment tags and other business descriptive tags.

Yesterday, Apple’s Eddy Cue said searches on Google via Safari were down last month for the first time in 22 years. Then later, Google issued a statement saying there was…

Google is testing a slightly different layout for its search result snippets. Google seems to be indenting the title link, URL and description to the right and placing the favicon…

Google Business Profiles has another bug, this time with the toggle to hide or show the business address. The toggle for “Show business address to customers” just does not work…

Google Analytics real time reporting seems to be lagging again this morning. I woke up to a ton of complaints on social about the real time reporting reports in GA4…

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

Google held another Google Creator Summit where they invited 7 creators on a fully paid expense trip to their Washington, D.C. office to spend the first two days in some…

Google is testing showing a large “Sponsored results” header in the search results that can lead to more search results and grouping various Google search ads together.

Google has announced a new Google Ads search campaign feature named AI Max. Google says AI Max for Search campaigns is a “new, one-click feature suite” that brings you a…

Google is testing moving the about results text, where it shows the count of results, to within the search tools menu. So when you click on “Tools” under the search…

Google is testing showing images within the sitelinks carousel in Google Ads and sponsored results. We’ve seen images in sitelinks before, numerous times, but here is a version of them…

Google has a “new feature,” as it labeled it, within Google Merchant Center, for event promotions. This allows you to promote an event, such as a sale, promotion or occasion,…

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

Here is a weird one – doing a site command and Google presenting an AI Overview summary of the results. In this case, the AI Overview was dead wrong –…

Google is now sending emails to business owners when a Google Business Profile information edit was rejected. The email subject line says “A recent information edit was rejected,” and then…

For the past week or so, news publishers from Brazil have not been happy with Google. It seems that Google Discover is broken for a lot of Brazilians, showing irrelevant…

We’ve seen variations of Google’s popular products section in the search results show both article and video content reviews. But now we are seeing another format for it, one that…

Google is testing a new ad groups interface for the Google Ads Search campaigns console. This seems to be a simpler interface with fewer options than the current version.

Jerry Dischler, the almost 20 year Google executive, is reportedly leaving Google a year and a half after he stepped down from that position. Jerry Dischler was involved in a…

Six years ago, Google dropped some of its search tools date filters and then added new operators for before: and after: that let you filter content by specific dates. Well,…

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…