Bing Tests Bold & Colored Hover Styles On Snippets & Related Searches
Microsoft is testing new hover effects and styles in the Bing Search results. Specifically, when you hover over the URL of a snippet, it will bold and underline the result. And then on related searches, Bing is using a blue and orangish styled backgro…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 17, 2025
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 Console is now counting AI Mode impressions, clicks and position…
Google Search Console Now Counting AI Mode Clicks, Impressions & Positions
Google has now officially confirmed that Google Search Console is counting AI Mode data. Google said, “AI Mode is now counting towards totals in Search Console.” We saw this when AI Mode went fully live in the US late last week, which Google announced…
Google Business Profiles Rolls Out New Interface For Google Posts
Google has rolled out a new interface to view your historical Google Posts within Google Business Profiles. Now the interface is a scrollable list view.
Google Search Previously Visited Links Issue
Google is investigating reports of a number of searchers seeing that all the links shown in the Google search results are marked as previously visited. When you click on a link in a browser, often the link is colored purple next time you see that link,…
Some Google Knowledge Panel Buttons Going To Wrong Sites
A few months ago, Google added big blue buttons to the knowledge panels within the Google Search results but now, some of those knowledge panels buttons are taking searchers to the wrong site or a site that does not exist.
Google Ads New Step-By-Step Conversion Setup
Google Ads is refreshing the interface for the conversion actions and conversion setup process. It is a new step-by-step process that is much easier to use than the old version.
Google AI Mode Within People Also Ask & Chrome
Just like Google had AI Overviews (also featured snippets) in the People also ask section of Google Search, Google is now testing AI Mode within People also ask. Plus, Google is testing it in the Chrome search auto-suggestions drop down. I guess this i…
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 16, 2025
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 testing AI audio overviews…
Google Search Tests Audio Overview
Tired of all that reading in the Google Search results, is it too hard to read the AI Overviews? Well, Google has a solution for you, they are called “Audio Overviews.” Google will generate an audio version of an AI Overview type of response, that soun…
Google Merchant Center Updates Some User Interface Elements
Google has made some more minor changes to the Google Merchant Center user interface. Specifically, Google moved where the merchants access settings section is and also updated the sidebar with collapsible menu items.
Bing Tests Dropping Microsoft Name From Bing Search Box
Microsoft is testing removing its own name from the Bing search results box at the top left of the page. So it just says Bing, with the Microsoft logo next to it, when it normally says Microsoft Bing with the Microsoft logo next to it.
Google Ads Tests New Charts Interface For Campaigns
Google Ads seems to be testing a new charts and graphing user interface with larger boxes and visuals in the campaign tab. It also seems to give you new ways to layout the data and visualize the data in these charts.
ChatGPT Updates To Improve Tracking In Analytics With More UTM Parameters
OpenAI has updated the ChatGPT interface to add additional UTM parameters to help with tracking more clicks from ChatGPT to your website. Now, under the “more” section, those links contain these UTM parameters, before they did not.
OpenAI Improves ChatGPT Search Quality
OpenAI announced it has released several improvements to the ChatGPT search response quality. These improvements include “more comprehensive, up-to-date responses,” according to the AI company.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 13, 2025
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 had some serious issues with Google Search, Discover…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google AI Mode Search, Apple Intelligence Updates, Google Live Search, AI Content, SEO & Google Ads
This week in search, we of course covered some Google search ranking volatility. Google Search had serving issues across Google Search, Discover and Google Lens yesterday. Google’s Sundar Pichai said AI Mode…
Google Is Now Rolling Out AI Mode In The US
At Google I/O, Google said it will roll out AI Mode to all users based in the U.S. Well, that rollout seems to have started some time yesterday. If you try to go to AI Mode in the U.S. when signed out of Google or in incognito mode, it should work for…
Google Drops Support For Seven Existing Structured Data Markups
Google has yet again dropped support for more of its structured data elements/markup that it uses for rich results in the search results page. Google calls this “Simplifying the search results page.”
Google Ads Shows Audience Size For Custom Segments
Google Ads is now showing the estimated audience size in the custom segments for some advertisers. This can help you see if the reach will be large enough for you to properly test the campaign.