Search Central Live: Tokyo and future plans for APAC
Search Central Live is back in Asia Pacific throughout 2023 and we can’t wait to meet you in person! We’re now ready to bring the events to more locations in the Asia Pacific region. Specifically, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and Taiwan are on our list.
Vlog #223: Glenn Gabe On Google Broad Core Updates
In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of AI-generated content…
Google Reduces Local Pack Results In Web Search?
Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer local packs for various queries in the Google Search results interface. For the past few days or so, local SEOs have been noticing this trend and it is concerning them and their clients.
Why Google Needs To Encourage Clicks To Publishers In The Search Generative Experience – It’s About Ads & Revenues
There is a lot of concern and worry around the new Google Search Generative Experience and how that might impact traffic to content creators, publishers, site owners, and the web as a whole. I get that new things are scary, but I think the concern may…
Bing Chat Now With Visual Search Comparisons, Knowledge Cards & More
On Friday afternoon, Microsoft Bing announced its weekly Bing Chat enhancements, including more visual results and layouts, knowledge card images and more features.
Google +Topic Search Bar Refinements Finally Goes Live On Desktop
After so much testing and several months after going live on mobile search, Google has announced the +topic search bar refinements are now officially live on the desktop search results.
Microsoft: Dark Mode Coming To Bing Chat
Microsoft will be bringing dark mode to Bing Chat in the future. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, when asked about dark mode for Bing Chat, he said on Twitter, “Coming, man, coming.”
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Generative Experience, Helpful Content Update For Hidden Gems, I/O Google Update, Bing Chat Models & More I/O
What a crazy week with Google I/O, where Search took the spotlight for the first time in a long time at the event. Google also may have rolled out an unconfirmed search ranking update around the same time as Google I/O…
Google I/O Search Algorithm Ranking Update – Unconfirmed
I am seeing signs of another Google search algorithm ranking update touching down over the past couple of days, which is why I am naming it the Google I/O Search Algorithm Ranking Update. This is not confirmed by Google but both SEO chatter and the aut…
Google: Invalid Schema Markup Doesn’t Hurt You
Gary Illyes from Google said that having invalid schema markup does not hurt your rankings or your site. He said the worse case, if Google cannot parse the markup, it won’t use it.
Google Bard Drops Waitlist & Gains Search, Maps, Lens & More Features
Google Bard had a bunch of updates roll out at Google I/O, which I did not cover the other day, because, well, there was a lot of core search I had to cover. Google removed the waitlist for Bard, and added Google Search, Maps, Lens, and other search-r…
Google Reiterates: Google Analytics 4 Deadline Is Not Changing
Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, posted on Twitter the other day saying, “The deadline is not changing,” when asked about a rumor that the GA4 deadline was being pushed off. That rumor is not true she said.
Google Search Pronunciation Practice Feature
Several years ago, Google Search added a search feature to help you pronounce words. Google Search has now added to that feature a way to practice your pronunciation directly in the search results.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 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.
I posted my thoughts on the all-new Google Search Generative Experience, and it might be worth a read…
Google Helpful Content System To Find Hidden Gems In Blogs & Forums In Future Update
Google also announced an upcoming update to the helpful content system (update) that will be released in the “coming months.” This update will find content in hard-to-find places such as forum threads, blogs and other places to show more “hidden gems” …
The Google Search Generative Experience – All New AI Google Search Engine
Google announced a preview, a labs experiment, of its all-new search engine, it is calling Google Search Generative Experience. This is where Google brings in generative AI into the search interface and makes a search interface designed more for a yout…
Now Live: Google Search Perspectives
Also, at Google I/O, Google announced the launch of “Perspectives” and the perspectives filter. We saw this earlier in the week and other variations over the past several months. But now it is officially live and aimed at providing an experience for th…
Google’s New AI-Generated Image Label & Meta Data Required
Google also is now asking you to self-label your AI-generated images as AI generated with a IPTC photo meta data attribute. This way Google can label images as being AI-generated in the image search results.
Google About This Image Snippet Feature
Google has launched the “about this image” feature at Google I/O, it is similar to when Google launched the “about this result” two years ago.
Goodbye FID, Hello INP – Interaction to Next Paint Coming To Google Core Web Vitals
As expected, although it took a lot longer than we thought, Google announced it will be replacing the FID metric with the INP metric for its Core Web Vitals. This won’t happen until March 2024, but it will happen.