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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…

Google announced its “new AI model” named Gemini 2.0 and with that confirmed Google has begun testing using Gemini 2.0 to power AI Overviews in Google Search. Sundar Pichai, Google’s…

Apple released a ton of new Apple Intelligence features yesterday, including what I’ve been waiting to play with – Apple Visual Intelligence. It seems, at least for now, that Apple…

After months of testing, and after Google was the first to make this move, Bing has dropped support for its cache operator and the cache link in Bing Search. Bing…

We’ve seen our share of Sitelinks tests in Google Search. Including a number of variations around expandable sitelinks. But here is a version where you can click an arrow down…

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This morning we reported about weirdness with the Search Console performance report date picker. Well, maybe it is related to Google just rolling out a new date picker and 24-hour…

Google is testing adding the ability to track prices, share and save products you are looking at in Google Search and Google Shopping. Google added these buttons for track price,…

Google Search Console has a bug with its date picker, when you want to compare two date ranges. It seems to default to the last month of data in most…

Google’s video search results seem to be testing removing the YouTube channel name and video upload date from the search results snippet. I am not sure why Google would remove…

Google has posted a new help document in the Google Merchant Center help center documenting the annotations and badges available both in free and paid Google Shopping results. Google wrote,…

Google now supports even more categories for more types of hours for your business listing. Google added a number of new hour types for religious institutions and restaurants.

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

Google has updated its crawler help documentation to add a new section for HTTP caching, which explains how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. Google also posted a blog post…

In October, Microsoft announced it was testing adding Copilot features to Bing Webmaster Tools. This is not showing Copilot data in the performance reports, but rather using Copilot to ask…

Google Search is testing a new design and user interface for the search tools menu. Instead of it showing below the search bar, it now shows right under the tools…

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. Post November 2024…

The Google November 2024 core update finished on December 5th, but we have continued to see search ranking volatility after the update was finished. That ranking volatility seemed to spike…

Late Friday afternoon, Google quietly updated its expanded site reputation abuse policy notice with a section of 9 FAQs. This includes what happens if you try to move the content,…

Google Search Console may have made a big update to its link counts. I am not sure how widespread this is, and I really don’t not track the link count…

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai was interviewed by New York Times’s Andrew Ross Sorkin. In this interview they spoke about Google’s approach to AI, Sundar’s outlook for the technology, and what…

Google Search Console has dropped a whole section on its side bar navigation. The Legacy tools and reports section has been removed from the side bar. It is unclear exactly…

Google may have dialed back how often they show AI Overviews in Google Search, especially in some verticals like health and finance (YMYL). Ziptie, a toolset that tracks Google AI…

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…

The Google November 2024 core update finally finished rolling out yesterday at around 1:30 PM ET. It took over 23.5 days to roll out, starting on November 11, 2024 at…

With all this talk about clustering and canonicalization today, what about if you get it wrong, or your CMS breaks and serves the wrong thing to Google? We know how…

As part of the topic of clustering and canonicalization with Google Search today, Allan Scott from Google explained how Google Search’s clustering technology works with its localization technology. The answer…

As part of the topic of clustering and canonicalization with Google Search today, Allan Scott from Google explained what he called “marauding black holes” in Google Search. Where Google’s clustering…

Did you know that Google uses around 40 different signals to perform canonicalization in Google Search? This not only includes numerous type of redirects, the rel canonical attribute but also…

Google’s John Mueller explained the difference between clustering and canonicalization within Google Search. He said, “Clustering is basically taking the pages that we think are the same. And then canonicalization…

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Google Search has a new button at the bottom of the search results that shows you if the results are personalized or not and a way to turn off personalization….

As Google continues to test its shopping / e-commerce card format, Google is now testing replacing the “popular stores” section with a “Where to buy” section. I mean, it seems…

Google is testing “view all” buttons in the Google Search results, maybe shopping oriented results, next to search result listings that lead to shopping category landing pages. The view all…

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We are now over a week past the estimated time the Google November 2024 core update was expected to be done and it seems to still be causing a lot…

Google announced that it has modernized and refreshed the emails that are sent out from Google Search Console. Google wrote, “Starting today your Search Console emails are looking more modern…

Bing Search can now place a button under a search result snippet that triggers a site command to restrict the search results to only show results from that domain. The…

We knew Google’s web rendering service (WRS) does its own thing with caching but now a new post from Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt of Google said the “WRS caches…

Google has a newish way to search for events in specific regions. If you do a search for events in a region, like Las Vegas, Google will then try to…

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. Just because you…

Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on why a company is not ranking for its new brand name, saying, “Just because you call your company something doesn’t mean it’ll…

Google is testing a new video format for some YouTube videos that provide “easy to digest” summaries of YouTube videos based on the users queries. This is a pilot that…