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Google is updated its Google Ads trademark policies to do away with the ability to have industry-wide blocks for trademarked terms. Instead, you will need to do this on the…

This week we had yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update in the middle of the week. The Google Search Generative Experience AI snapshot answers are now twice as fast….

Google has released its first set of quality updates to the new Search Generative Experience that began to rollout a few weeks ago. The most noticeable update is that it…

Google announced a few news-related updates, including that the Google News Showcase is finally coming to US news publishers, an updated follow tab in the Google News app, and survey…

Google’s Gary Illyes said in an SEO office hours video that having multiple navigation menus will have no impact on your SEO performance. That means no positive or negative impact…

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 Ads API…

Google has released a major release for its Google Ads API, version 14. Version 14 brings new recommendation types, account-level negative keywords, offline conversion, GA4 data, and much more.

A few months ago, Google changed when it shows video thumbnails in its search results to only show the video thumbnail when the video is part of the page’s main…

John Mueller from Google said there is no such concept at Google on the topic of “index bloat.” He said Google’s “systems don’t artificially limit the number of pages indexed…

Google’s Gary Illyes said in a SEO office hours video that you may want to consider consolidating pages that end up in a host group in the Google search results….

Google announced that they added Implicit Code Execution to Bard, making Bard 30% more accurate in internal logic challenge tests. It basically made Bard better at math and data analysis….

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

Microsoft has temporarily disabled the share feature in Bing Chat where you can share your chats with friends over email, social, etc. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing said on…

Microsoft Bing Search is testing showing fewer options in the search bar menu below the search box. We saw this with Bing Image search before and now we are seeing…

Bing seems to be testing placing labels that describe the search result listing, on the left side bar of the search result listing. It seems the label will help define…

Google Search now labels some of its translations as being verified. When Google Search translates words or phrases, Google may show a “verified” label and write “This translation was verified…

Google seems to be testing a new setting icon on recipe search results. I am not able to replicate it but recipe gear icon shows options for about this receipt,…

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. Seems like there…

The Google Ads interface and advertising console is currently down. It has been down for the past 40 minutes or so, going down a bit after 9am ET.

The new Google Search Generative Experience started to rollout to some users and while there are some legit complaints, overall, it seems like many SEOs are not too impressed with…

Google Search can now show you both e-book and physical hardcover book availability at a library near you. In 2017, Google offered this feature for e-books but now it seems…

The other day we reported that Google was showing 3D product images not just on mobile search but on desktop. Now, Google is testing showing a QR code that the…

It has actually been a couple of weeks since we last reported on a Google search ranking update, May 22/23rd, so it has been a while. But I am seeing…

Google Ads now lets advertisers sync columns and segments across the same or different accounts, using MCC accounts. There is this option to let you choose which account to apply…

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. Bing Chat increased…

Bing Chat now can handle 30 chat turns per conversation, up from 20, and a total of 300 chats per day. Also, the travel results can be more visual and…

Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit, when it comes to SEO, do not pick a cheap domain on a TLD that is overrun with spam. The question that was asked…

Google Business Profile listings in the Google mobile search results never showed videos in the image portion of the listing that were longer than 30 seconds. Now, it seems Google…

Google posted an update that it is currently working on linking your Google AdSense account with your Google Analytics 4 property as it offers with Universal Analytics 3.

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 may be…

Google Search is now rolling out more featured snippets, this is not the new perspectives that it said would be coming at its Google I/O event, despite what I wrote…

Google’s all-new search engine, the Search Generative Experience, which began to rollout for some, is really not more personalized than what you get from Google’s traditional search results. Google is…

Google has updated its Google Ads healthcare and medicines policy, specifically around animal medications. Google said it clarified the restrictions around prescription animal medications that are not prone to human…

I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for June and as you can imagine, it was a big month. Google launched the Search Generative Experience for some…

As expected, with Google I/O this month, we had a pretty busy month. We saw the all new Google Search Generative Experience demoed, and a few weeks later, Google started…

Microsoft will bring Bing Chat to all browsers and not force you to use Microsoft Edge to use Bing Chat, in the near future. When exactly, we are not sure,…

Google released an update to Google Bard last night that allows you to share your precise location with Bard for it to give you more accurate and relevant local results.

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

Google’s new Search Generative Experience seems to be missing one thing that SEOs and reporters often look at: the number of results Google returns for that query.

Google had updated the Shopping ads Policy Center and free listings Policy Center to “better explain” the policies and how Google enforces those policies, the company posted.

Google keeps expanding its car search features, threatening the Edmunds and car websites out there. Here you can see Google showing you car comparison tools and charts to help you…

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…

Google has told Joy Hawkins that giving charitable donations in exchange for a positive review on your Google Business Profile listing is against its guidelines.