Google Search Snippets You May Like Label
Google is testing a new label for its search results snippets, this one is named “you may like.” I am not sure how Google knows you may like this search result snippet, unless this is a variation of how Google names the “you visit often” label?
Google enhances Local Services Ads with auto-selected photos
Automatic photo selection for Local Services Ads, aims to boost engagement and ad rankings for businesses that upload high-quality, images to their profiles.
Google declared a monopoly: industry reactions and implications
Digital marketers highlight uncertainties about long-term implications, potential market disruptions, and challenges in determining meaningful penalties.
Advertisers react to Google Reporting and Product Listing glitch
Concern raised among advertisers have been about data privacy, competitive intelligence, and Google’s transparency in handling the situation
Google Ads recovers from major reporting glitch
The glitch exposed some advertisers to others’ data & some couldn’t edit product groups. Most services are now restored and credits promised to those affected.
Google Trends Rolls Out New Trending Now Design
Google Trends began rolling out a new design for the trending now page a day or so ago. The new design seems to give you more filter options and provide more keyword data on the same page.
Google Search Console launches recommendations
This is an experimental feature, so you might not see it yet.
Report: Google Search traffic and queries not impacted by new competing AI search engines
New data from Datos’ clickstream panel analyzed by Sonata Insights showed Google traffic grew over the year, despite all the new AI competitors.
Google Removes See Results About Title From Mobile Search Results
Google has dropped the title from the “see results about” disambiguous search feature in the mobile search results interface. The feature is still very much alive, but on mobile search, Google removed the title of it and just shows the feature. On desk…
Google Shopping Product Images Showing User Review Images
Google seems to be showing photos from reviews from actual users in the Google Shopping product image carousel. So when you click on a product listing and then swipe through the images, you may see actual photos submitted by users from their reviews.
Google Local Knowledge Panel Interactive Card Interface
Google seems to have launched the interactive knowledge panel layout for local knowledge panels in Google Search. This design is from a couple of years ago but now seems to be rolling out for the local version of knowledge panels.
Google Tests Explore More With Search Section
Google seems to be encouraging searchers to search more for more types of queries with a new “Explore more with Search” carousel. It shows the searcher other topics, with photos, on what they can search on.
Reddit CEO to Microsoft and AI search engines: Pay for our content
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman does not believe all web content – especially theirs – is free for AI models and search engines to crawl and use.
Google Tests Sitelinks Pill Formats On Desktop Search
A few weeks ago, we saw Google testing pill formats, bubble formats, for sitelinks in the mobile search results. Now Google is testing that format on the desktop search results.
Google Knowledge Panels Tests “Videos From” Section
Google is testing a new section on knowledge panels named “videos from.” This section can contain videos from the brand’s social channels. This seems to be a larger extension of Google showing social posts from the brand’s channels, maybe?
Google updates deepfakes search algorithms and controls and expands About this image
Google is making it easier to remove deepfakes and also expands About this image to Circle to Search and Google Lens.
Google Improved Autocomplete Predictions After Trump Criticism
Over the past few days, Google has come under fire over its autocomplete predictions in Google Search around former President, Donald Trump. In the wake of the issue, Google updated its autocomplete prediction system to make improvements in these cases.
Google “Hidden Gem Stores” Search Feature
Google seems to be testing a new search feature named “Hidden gem stores.” This shows you shopping and merchant listings from various stores and brands. This does not seem to be the Google hidden gems algorithm, but rather just a fancy title for a se…
Google May Replace X (Twitter) With Latest Posts From
Google Search may be replacing the heading for “X (Twitter)” posts with “Latest Posts from.” This would be a step to removing more X branding from the Google Search results page.
Google Discover Promoting AI Overviews In Search
Google Discover is now pushing users to see AI Overviews directly in the Google Search results. As you scroll through the Discover feed on Google.com, you may see a promotion of sorts to learn more about a topic through the lens of AI Overviews.