Top ways to ensure your content performs well in Google’s AI experiences on Search
As a site owner, publisher or creator, you may be wondering how to best succeed in our AI search
experiences, such as AI Overviews and our new AI Mode.
The underpinnings of what Google has long advised carries across to …
Google Search Tests Link Icon Box With Anchor Feature
Google is testing a new link feature in the search results, it is in the form of a link box, in the search result snippet, that when you click on it, it anchors you down on the page to a specific portion of that text.
Google Tests Removing Site Names From Search Results
Google is testing removing the site names from the search result snippets and just showing the site’s URL at the top – title link – position of the snippet.
Google Tests Search Results Links In Light Blue Cyan Again
Google is once again testing a light blue color, cyan, for its title links in the search results. Google tested this on and off quite a lot over the years, but Google is testing it again.
IndexNow Works With Product Schema; Shopify & Soon Amazon
Microsoft Bing announced some interesting updates for IndexNow including how it works now with product schema and that Shopify now supports it and soon Amazon will. This will help Bing and search engines that use IndexNow have more accurate and up-to-…
Google Ads Graphs Gain Embedded Performance Explanations
Google Ads has added explanations for your performance changes directly in the charts and graphs in your Google Ads console. You can click the highlighed section of the graph to see explanations for your performance changes, like cost increases or decr…
Google AdSense Drops Account Level Control For Non Personalized Ads
Google announced it has deprecated the Account level control for non personalized ads within Google AdSense’s settings in privacy and messaging. Instead, Google said “use the IAB TCF framework for collecting and communicating users’ consent decisions i…
Microsoft Partners With Creators To Promote Copilot Search in Bing
Microsoft’s Jordi Ribas announced they are partnering with creators to showcase how they use Copilot Search in Bing. Copilot Search in Bing was launched in early April, as its new AI powered search feature.
Google Begins Rolling Out Discover On Desktop
Since the weekend, Google has started to roll out Google Discover on desktop in many countries and regions. I personally can trigger it in Google New Zealand and some other locations but I am not yet able to trigger it on Google.com in the United States.
Google Merchant Center Now Recommends Product’s Brand Name In Title
Google has updated its title structured data help document for Google Merchant Center to now recommend you add the product’s brand name to the title of the product when it’s a differentiating factor.
Google Sitemap Error For Some International 5 Character Subdomains
Google has a weird and somewhat limited and rare issue with sitemap files within Google Search Console. These sitemap files cannot be fetched and retrieved by Google Search. The issue seems to be related to 5-character subdomains that are on a Polish …
Google Search Begins Migrating Off Country Specific ccTLDs
A month ago, Google said it would soon redirect its ccTLD, country specific domains, for Google Search to its Google.com domain. So Google.de, as an example, would be redirected to Google.com. Well, that process seems to have kicked off on Friday, May…
Google Ads Spending Bug With New Customer Acquisition Since May 15
Google has a bug with Google Ads where for campaigns running on New Customer Acquisition they are not able to spend the set budget. This bug was confirmed with Google and has been an issue for advertisers since May 15th.
Google Speeds Up AI Mode
Google AI Mode seems like it got a lot faster over the past day or so. Instead of going through the steps of saying thinking about this, searching for results, organizing results, it just now saying kicking off searches and then looking at sites and t…
Google Search Ranking Update Volatility May 16th
As I mentioned in my Friday video, there seems to be a lot of Google search ranking volatility that kicked off on Friday, May 16th and throughout this weekend. The most heated day seems to have been on Friday but the chatter is pretty busy over the wee…
Google’s Pichai: Search Ads With AI Overviews Earn Same As Ads Without
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said that search ads with AI Overviews are at a baseline, at the same level as search ads without AI Overviews, in terms of ad revenue per query. He added, and now it is just about going up from there, and with AI, he does…
Google’s Pichai: Search Ads With AI Overviews Earn Same As Ads Without
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said that search ads with AI Overviews are at a baseline, at the same level as search ads without AI Overviews, in terms of ad revenue per query. He added, and now it is just about going up from there, and with AI, he does…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Rethinking Search, Replacing Reddit, Search Console Annotations & So Much More
This week, we covered, you guessed it, more Google search ranking volatility. Google also said they are rethinking its search stack from the ground up because of LLMs. Google is testing AI Overviews in more regions and languages prior to Google I/O/ Go…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Rethinking Search, Replacing Reddit, Search Console Annotations & So Much More
This week, we covered, you guessed it, more Google search ranking volatility. Google also said they are rethinking its search stack from the ground up because of LLMs. Google is testing AI Overviews in more regions and languages prior to Google I/O/ Go…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 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 confirmed ads with AI Overviews make as much as ads without AI Overviews on the page…