Category: Google

Google is testing a new AI Mode widget within the main search results that drives searchers away from the core search results and recipe listings/cards and into AI Mode, which then shows those horrible AI-generated Frankenstein recipes.

Google seems to be rolling out a new format for some of the AI Overviews it shows within search. This format shows a drop-down, expandable, accordion-style interface that you can expand to show more.

Google seems to be rolling out a new format for some of the AI Overviews it shows within search. This format shows a drop-down, expandable, accordion-style interface that you can expand to show more.

Google announced it updated AI Mode to link to more recipe sites and bloggers. “Starting today, when you search for meal ideas like ‘easy dinners for two,’ you can tap on the dish to see links to relevant recipe sites, plus a short overview of the dish…

Google announced it updated AI Mode to link to more recipe sites and bloggers. “Starting today, when you search for meal ideas like ‘easy dinners for two,’ you can tap on the dish to see links to relevant recipe sites, plus a short overview of the dish…

Google is testing bolding the site names in the search results. We’ve seen Google bold many other elements of the search result snippet, but I don’t think I’ve covered Google testing bolding the site name portion of the search snippet.

Google Search may have rolled out an update for the images it shows in the search results All tab. For some queries, Google is showing a full-width image pack, but with only four wider images, not the five images we saw before.

Google has reportedly confirmed that the Google Discover feed has recently increased how often it shows social media posts in the feed. We covered this in January, and while we know Google does show social media in the Discover feed, it seems Google i…

Google AI Mode doesn’t always pass referrer data from the links on the sidebar. This is supposedly being looked at by the Google Search team and hopefully will be fixed soon, if not, already.

Google seems to be rolling out colorful sections in the knowledge panels. Sometimes you will see gray, sometimes blue, sometimes orange and sometimes green and maybe more. We saw this on mobile over a decade ago, so this does seem new, especially on d…

There is a Google patent named AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user. It describes the use of AI to create custom landing pages and when a user performs a search, Google Search sends the user to the AI-generated page instead of the page…

Google might be allowing publishers to claim their profiles and publications on Google Discover. I mean, there were forms of this for Google News, Google Business Profiles, even Google Search over the years, but there are hints this is coming to Google…

The Google Search team and the Google Ads team released two different videos this week that I thought you should all listen to, at least in the background. In short, Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes from the Google Search team spoke about how browsers pa…

Google is testing adding “web mentions” to the retailer store page under the reviews section. I cannot replicate this yet, but web mentions shows what people are saying about the retailer on sites like Reddit and other social platforms, whereas reviews…

Google announced updates to Circle to Search where it now doesn’t just look at the part you circles but apparently the whole image, so it can get more context. “New multi-object image search helps you find more items from one picture at the same time i…

Reuters has a headline that reads Exclusive: Google to test changes to search results, source says as EU fine looms. This confuses me because I thought Google had been testing this for a couple of years now.

Google is showing a “See more” button in some of the AI Mode results. This has been happening for almost the past month on desktop and probably mobile. It seems to come up more often for shopping related results, to load more products from the Google S…

Google’s AI Shopping tab is now pushing shoppers and searchers to find more products. The prompt responses to your queries can display “Show more products” and other links to get you to view more products.

Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented the issue at around 1:30 am ET on Wednesday, February 25th and said it was resolved a minute later.

Google is testing removing the dates from the articles shown in the Google Discover feed. This is a limited test, Google confirmed, to see the impact of removing the date value.