Category: Google

Danny Sullivan is no longer the Google Search Liaison. He is switching roles within Google to work on new projects on the Google Search team. Danny Sullivan started at Google over seven years ago, and was very public-facing up until several months ago.

Google has replaced the promotions section in the merchant local knowledge panel with a deals section. There are still clipable coupons but it is renamed “Deals” instead of it saying “Promotions.” There is also a new green percentage icon next to each …

Google is testing a sort by button filter at the top right of the Google Shopping interface. This is instead of Google putting the sort by on the left-hand bar, with all the other filters.

Google is testing a clickable version of the sub-menu within Google Shopping, next to the G super logo we spotted before. This menu is below the other menu and lets you filter down by product sub-category.

Google is testing a new section in the search results titled “Posts on Reddit.” This section seems to maybe replacing or be in addition to the Discussions and Forums section, which also shows Reddit threads in a dedicated section.

Google announced that the full version of Search Live, with video and not just audio, is now rolling out this week on mobile in the U.S. for users enrolled in the AI Mode Labs experiment. This was demoed by Google at I/O in May, Google released the aud…

Google AI Mode added the ability to upload PDFs and images for your queries. Google also added a Canvas feature to help you plan things while you are asking AI Mode questions. Finally, Google upgraded Search while browsing to add in AI Mode.

Google is testing a button to drive more people into AI Mode for shopping help. The button is labeled “Help me shop in AI Mode.” When you click on it, it takes you into AI Mode with the AI Mode shopping experience.

Google has now expanded AI Mode to UK users after bringing it to India last month and the US fully the month prior to that. Google said, “Starting to roll out in the UK today, you’ll see it appear as a tab on your Search results page, and in the Googl…

Google seems to be testing replacing the three vertical dots next to the search results snippets with a question mark icon. Clicking on that triggers the about this site feature.

Google finally launched its virtual clothes try-on feature after launching it several times and then demoing it again at Google I/O. Google also launched price alerts to let users specify an amount that will trigger the alert.

Google launched a new Search Labs experiment it is calling Web Guide. It basically organizes the web search results for you by category. Google wrote, “Web Guide is an AI-organized search results page that experiments with how we find, surface and org…

Google is now also showing AI Overviews for explanations of lyrics. If you do some searches asking about the meanings of some songs, Google may give you an AI Overview with its answer.

Google has released an alpha version of an API to access Google Trends data – the Google Trends API. “This new API will help Researchers, Journalists, and Developers to understand Search behaviors and patterns,” said Daniel Waisberg of Google.

Pew Research Center released a report that showed Google searchers who encounter an AI Overview are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one. The study showed that 8% clicked on links to websites when an AI Overvie…

Google is testing adding more links within the search results snippets. Google is showing a “see more” link that will jump you to the section on the web page related to the piece of content you are seeking. Plus, other hyperlinks within the search resu…

Google is testing replacing the “More” button under the search bar within the search results page with at least two different options. One is “More filters” and the other is “Show more.”

Google’s John Mueller said it may make sense to noindex your LLMs.txt file. This way, the file doesn’t get indexed by search engines, and then somehow a user lands on it and is confused.

Google has uploaded a new logo for Google Search Console. The logo looks like a variation of an analytics logo with a magnifying glass, with blue, green, yellow and a smidge of red in the logo.

After months of testing, it seems Google is rolling out a button for AI Mode directly in the search box on Google’s home page – on Google.com. This seems like a big deal to me, and goes along with AI Mode being the first tab in the main search results.