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Google recently said it made Search “much faster,” at least that is what Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google Search said on social. There is a larger blog…

Google Merchant Center has added a new report named popular products report. This report will show you your popular products, popular brands, top-selling products, etc, all on Google.

Google’s John Mueller was quick to debunk a claim that owning an .esports domain will have no positive SEO effect. He said on Bluesky, “There’s no positive SEO effect from…

Google Ads seems to be rolling out the expected age exclusions feature for Performance Max, PMax, campaigns. In January, Google told us it would be coming and then we saw…

Google has been rolling out its new full-width redesign of Google Discover. But the issue is that it is taking publishers’ images and cropping them to fit this new width.

A US judge ruled Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some ad tech. This is the second time a judge ruled Google willfully engaged in monopolistic practices. The…

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

Google is sending some of its advertisers personalized emails about how they can boost their ads performance by following a few steps. The email is titled, “Your step-by-step guide to…

Google has released version 19.1 of the Google Ads API, v19.1 added 11 new features, removed 0 features and changed 23 different features. This goes across assets, campaigns, Demand Gen,…

As I covered yesterday, Google is going to redirect its ccTLDs to Google.com. And as I reported yesterday, Google also said “it won’t affect the way Search works.” Despite Google…

Google launched its shopping / e-commerce card in the search results as a test several months ago. Since then, the card has undergone various tweaks. Now, Google is testing showing…

While you can access Google AI Mode directly at google.com/aimode, there is currently no way to go direclty to something like google.com/aimode?q=QUERYGOESHERE. But that might come, said Robby Stein, VP,…

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’s been about a week and what would be do without reporting on yet more Google Search ranking volatility… I am seeing signs of a Google Search ranking update and…

CNBC reports Google has been sued in the UK for <<£5 billion ($6.6 billion) in potential damages over allegations that the U.S. tech giant abused its “near-total dominance” in the…

Google.com will soon be the only way to access Google Search. The ccTLD versions of Google will redirect to Google.com. That means if you try to go to Google.ca, Google.fr….

Google has released its annual Google Ads Safety report and the big number that stands out to me is that Google has suspended over 200% more advertiser accounts in 2024…

Google is testing a “new” label in the search result snippets. Several people are noticing this “new” label next to search result snippets that have new content.

We know Google loves to link to its own search results from the AI Overviews, and we have seen those links sometimes go in a loop of sorts. But did…

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 Financial Times…

The Financial Times has a detailed interview with the newish Head of Google Search, Elizabeth Reid. The interview can be gated, so here are some of the quotes that stood…

As you know, Google is okay with linking its AI Overviews back to more Google Search results. But is Google okay with linking the same query, to the same query,…

Google said it again – structured data does not help your site rank any better. John Mueller of Google said this on Bluesky, “Structured data won’t make your site rank…

There seems to be a bug that is impacting the first image in the product snippet image carousel set. I was notified about this a few times in the past…

Google is testing a new shortcut location for AI Mode in the Google App on Android. Google is placing the shortcut button directly in the search bar.

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

Google released a new Google Ads ad strength guide and best practices document. The document should help you improve your overall ad strength in Google Ads.

Google is testing yet another search feature that generates new queries on Google Search. This one is named “Ask a follow-up” and they are sported with the Gemini stars next…

Microsoft is testing yet another variation for its favicons in the Bing Search snippets. This one uses a dark gray background, with a circle formatted favicon, next to the search…

Google is experimenting more with shopping carousels, this time, showing products and then which articles are recommending those products. These can be shown in best of articles and recommended in…

Microsoft is testing trending icons on Bing Search’s related searches section. We’ve seen both Google and Bing use trending icons in various search features over the years, but now Bing…

This is a programming note that I am completely offline for the Passover holiday today. In fact, this post was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today – so you…

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 officially…

This week, we covered yet again some more Google search ranking volatility. Google Discover will be coming to the desktop version of Google’s homepage. Google Search Analytics API now shows…

Recently, I’ve been complaining that Google is linking many of its search features back to more search results, this is also includes the AI Overviews. Well, Bing Search is also…

A month ago, we reported that Google was testing linking words in the AI Overviews back to its own search results. We felt this set a horrible message but hey,…

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

It’s been about a week since we reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking update and well, now I am seeing multiple signs of an unconfirmed updates of sorts. I…

Google announced a number of new goals and image controls that are now available on Google Ads Performance Max campaigns. Google added customer lifecycle goals and reporting and additional image…

Google Search is testing a new expandable carousel that says “more from” a specific retailer. When it loads, it loads more products in a carousel beneath the search result snippet…

Google sent out emails yesterday through Google Merchant Center inviting some brands to manage and edit their brand content on Google Search. I suspect this is the visual brand profile…

Google has finally rolled out API access to its 24-hour data feed of Search Performance data. And it is two days more than we expected, with Google giving us this…

Google is testing various link formats in AI Mode. Initially Google launched AI Mode with those tiny paperclip links, but Google, like they’ve done in AI Overviews, is testing in…

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

We’ve seen Google test showing Google Discover on the desktop home page for years now but Google has now confirmed it will be bringing Discover to its desktop Google.com home…

I am hearing reports that Google is showing driving direction request data on the Google Business Profile API for Service Area Businesses (SABs). SABs do not get a directions button,…

Google seems to be rolling out a new metric in the Google Business Profiles performance report for “messaging clicks.” This was a feature we had in the old Google My…

Google has been using AI to write parts of the knowledge panels for some time now. But now it seems, when Google does that, it will show references and link…

Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, said that the Google Ads team is working on improvement the advertiser support experiences and some improvements have been rolling out. “There are ongoing efforts…

Google AdSense has a new version of rewarded ads – not the Rewarded Ad Gate beta program that we covered in 2022 but the AdSense rewarded ad units beta program.

Google has made a number of updates to its Merchant Center product data specifications, including some that went into effect on April 8th and some that will go into effect…

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 AI Mode…

Google announced that AI Mode now lets you search by uploading a photo or image from your device. Before the new AI Mode only allowed you to search with text,…

Google Search is not just having its AI Overviews link back to itself but also search features like Things To Know. This is all while Google touts how it is…

Google released its annual metrics on how well it did with fighting spam on Google Maps. In short, Google said it blocked or removed more than 240 million policy-violating reviews,…

Google has updated its Google Ads policies around suspensions yesterday. While no changes have been made to enforcement of these policies, Google has really updated a lot of the content,…

Pretty much every data provider that tracks AI Overviews in Google Search are showing that Google is showing AI Overviews more often today than they were a month ago. I…

Google announced it has refreshed its Shopping tab listings report which it initially launched in November 2022 and renamed it to the Merchant opportunities report. The refreshed report now includes…

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

On Friday afternoon, Danny Goodwin covered a 170 or so page PDF that Search Engine Land received from an anonymous tip named “Preference Ranking Guidelines.” It looks to me similar…

Google can show search ads with video formats. I mean, Google has been doing this for a while now, but they are kind of rare to see. This latest one…

After initially going live on Wednesday morning, Microsoft did not officially announce the launch of Copilot Search in Bing until late Friday afternoon. Microsoft said, “Copilot Search seamlessly blends the…