Google AI Overviews Go Deeper With Gemini 2.0?
In early December, Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, said Google is starting to test powering AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0. Well, we may be starting to see some of that in the wild, with much deeper and detailed AI Overviews and citations.
Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 21%
Microsoft reported its second quarter 2025 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 21%. The previous quarter it was up 18%, then 19% but before than it was 12% and 8% – so things are looking more positive.
Google Expands Site Reputation Abuse Enforcement To German Sites
Google has once again expanded the reach of its site reputation abuse policy, beyond the US enforcement from from May and beyond limited European regions last week – we are now seeing enforcement in the massive German market.
Google Search Console Reports Latest Update In 30 Minute Intervals
Google may have pushed some improvements to the reporting system within Google Search Console. Now Google can show how soon the report was updated within a 30 minute interval. So instead of showing last updated 3 hours ago or 4 hours ago, as an example…
Google Ads Clarifies Docs Around Placement Exclusions After Confusion
Earlier this month, the Google Ads industry had a lot of confusion around if and in what cases the Google Ads API accept or support placement exclusions for Performance Max campaigns. Well, Google’s Ginny Marvin clarified this the other day in an email…
Google AI Overviews Now Providing Programming Help
Google AI Overviews, even when not signed into a Google Labs project, is providing coding and programming examples and help. This started sometime yesterday, I believe, and before, I believe you had to opt into a Search Labs experiment to trigger this.
Google: SEOs Can Spot Made For Search Engine Content Quickly
John Mueller from Google noted that he finds it “interesting” how those who spend time in our industry “can often recognize made-for-search-engine content fairly quickly.” Meaning, we are good at seeing a piece of content on the web and knowing if it w…
Google Ads New Used Since Column For PMax
Google Ads is testing adding a new column to its Performance Max reports named “Used Since.” This column is visible on the asset level and it shows the date an asset was added.
Google: Merging Content More Challenging Than Site Moves For SEO
John Mueller from Google said that merging content is always more challenging than a basic site move. Meaning, when you take a look at your content on your site and decide to merge a bunch of the content into fewer URLs, that takes longer for Google t…
URL Is Unknown To Google In Search Console Means URL Has No Priority
Gary Illyes from Google said that if a URL has a status within Google Search Console as “URL is unknown to Google” that means that URL is really unknown to Google and has zero priority within Google Search systems.
Google Business Profiles Now Allows Bulk Managing Special Hours
Google has added a method to bulk manage the special hours for all the businesses you manage in Google Business Profiles. You can easily copy special hours from one business listing to others.
Google Search Tests Frequently Saved Label On Local Results
Google Search is testing the frequently saved label not just in the main search results but also on the local results, the places section, of the Google Search results.
Google Search Ranking Volatility Spiked Friday Jan 24 Through Weekend
Google Search may have pushed some unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update or tweak around Friday, January 24th. I briefly mentioned this on my Friday video but I felt it was worth kicking up here as its own story.
Yahoo Search AI Chat Expanded & Adds AI Answers To Search
Yahoo is continuing its AI Chat features within Yahoo Search, while also incorporating AI Answers into its search results. The AI powered answers and chat seemed to be powered by OpenAI.
Bing Tests AI Answers Sources Section In Carousel View & Videos
Microsoft Bing is testing placing the sources section of its AI Answers in a carousel view, instead of a list view. This let’s you scroll through the sources as opposed to just seeing them below in a list view.
Bing Tests Black Organic URLs & Green Sponsored URLs
Microsoft is testing different colored URLs for its organic (free) results and its sponsored (paid) results. The organic URL slugs are bold black colored and the sponsored URL slugs are bold green colored.
Google Search Tests Jobs At Similar Employers
Google is testing a new job carousel in the search results titled “jobs at similar employers.” This likely pulls from the Google Jobs postings schema and more but it can come up if you are just searching for products from that company.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, European Manual Actions, Quality Raters Updated, Bing Hides Google & Yahoo AI Chat
Google search ranking volatility is heated this week, but some of the tools are having issues tracking them. Google is sending out penalties, manual actions…
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Gain 11 New Pages
On Thursday, January 23rd, Google updated its search quality raters guidelines PDF document. The last time Google updated this document was for the March 2024 spam update changes, over ten months ago. This update seems to focus on on spam and adds som…
New Google Ads Performance Max Features
Google announced a number of new Google Ads Performance’¬’ Max’¬’ features with the aim to provide advertisers with more control, transparency, and actionable insights within Performance Max campaigns, the company said. These include updates around m…