Google Search Product Listings 3D & 360 Imagery Are Different
The other day, I reported that Google was testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label. Well, I may have been wrong because 360 and 3D may be different and not the same. We are now seeing Google show both 3D and 3560 labels on product listings in th…
Google Business Profile Bug: Unable To Invite New Owners
Google Business Profiles has a bug that prevents you from inviting a new owner to your Business Profile listing. You can invite new managers, but inviting new owners does not currently work (at least when I wrote this story).
Google Business Profiles Panel Tests Image Slider
Google is testing adding an image carousel directly in the business profile panel. So at the top of a business profile listing you see these business images. In this test, you can swipe the images to see more.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 25, 2023
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 past two days we noticed yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update…
Programming Note: Offline For Shavuot On Friday
This is a programming note that I will be completely offline for the holiday of Shavout/Shavous, from Thursday night, May 25th, through late Saturday night, May 27th. Any stories published here will be scheduled, written beforehand…
Google Search Algorithm Ranking Volatility May 22 & 23 – Not Confirmed
I am seeing signs of another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update, this one kicking off on May 22nd and continuing over the next few days. This one is unusual in that I see significant chatter amongst the SEO community but some of the mo…
Google Job Search Bug Won’t Show Recent Job Postings
There was a bug with Google Jobs Search that wouldn’t show new or recent job listings from the past three days. The issue has been going on for the past several days and after four or so days of it being an issue, Google finally fixed it at around 2pm…
Google Search Interactive Suggestions For Your Search
Google is testing a new feature named “suggestions for your search.” It is an interactive and visual feature to help you expand and dig deeper into your search process. In this case, this is to help you buy a home.
Google Bard Gains Images With More Coming Soon
As Google announced a week or so ago, Bard now can show images in the responses. Jack Krawczyk said on Twitter that you can “click an image to see the source for each one,” and that “Bard includes images in relevant responses and also when you specifi…
Google Trusted Store Badge Replaced With Top Quality Store Badge
Google has replaced the “Trusted Store” badge in the product results within Google Search with a “Top Quality Store” badge. Google said, “there’s no action you need to take, and the update will not affect your performance metrics at all.”
Google Search Topic Authority Ranking System (Not New)
Google posted a new blog post about an old ranking system it has not talked about before named “topic authority.” Initially, everyone thought Google was announcing a new search ranking algorithm update, but no, Google’s Danny Sullivan clarified on Twit…
Google Ads In Search Generative Experience – What They Look Like
Google showcased some additional Google Ads sponsored search ads in the new Google Search Generative Experience yesterday at Google Marketing Live. Google made a point to say these ad positions and features will likely change as Google continues to ex…
Google Ads Conversation Experience To Create New Ads & Automatically Created Assets
Google announced a bunch of new AI features for Google Ads at Google Marketing Live yesterday, including a new conversation Google Ads tool and also improvements to Automatically Created Assets (ACA), amongst some other things, which we covered today o…
New Google Merchant Center Next To Replace Classic Merchant Center
Google announced Google Merchant Center Next, a more lightweight, easier-to-use version of Google Merchant Center at Google Marketing Live. Google added, “while we’re simplifying, the features that larger retailers rely on aren’t going anywhere.”
Google Ads Generative AI Performance Max & New Google Product Studio
Google will roll out generative AI for Google Ads Performance Max and a new Google Product Studio. The company announced these two recent changes at Google Marketing Live, in addition to all the other coverage we are posting today with that event.
Bing Search Is The Default Search Engine For ChatGPT
Microsoft announced yesterday a lot of AI news, like Google Ads did, but the big news at least for us is that Bing Search is now the default search engine for OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Google Search Console Reporting Glitch With Video Traffic May 4-17
Google Search Console confirmed it had a bug in reporting video-specific traffic in the performance report between May 4th and May 17th. Google seems to have resolved the issue going forward but your reports between May 4 and May 17 might be lower tha…
Google Rich Results Test Tool Gains Brings Back Code Button
Google has added back the edit code button to the Rich Results Test tool. Ryan Levering from Google posted this news on Mastodon saying, “Excited for this new button in Rich Results Test that makes it easier to test fixes to live code.”
Bing Search Tests Blue Highlighted Text In AI Chat Answers Within Search
Microsoft Bing is testing highlighting portions of the AI chat answer in blue, the one embedded in the Bing Search results. Bing Search started to test embedding its Bing Chat AI answers into the Bing search results two months ago and now Bing is test…
Google Featured Snippets Puts Vertical Lines Between Answer & Images
Google now shows vertical lines between the featured snippet text and the featured snippet images. This is on the full-width featured snippet, which has a horizontal line below the featured snippet, separating it from the main search results. Now Goog…