Microsoft Shows How Ads Are Chosen In Bing Search
Microsoft is now showing why it selects or chooses to show a specific ad directly in the Bing search results. When you click on the arrow down by the URL of the search ad snippet, you will get window dialog that may explain why the ad was shown.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 6, 2025
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.
Google launched its AI mode, but it is in beta and you need to be added to a waitlist…
Google AI Mode – It’s Here – Here Is How To Access It
Google has officially announced Google AI Mode, after hearing rumors about it for months and then seeing leaked screenshots of it a few weeks ago. Google said AI mode gives you more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities so you can ge…
Official: Google AI Overviews Powered By Gemini 2.0
In December, Google told us they are testing powering AI Overviews using Gemini 2.0. We think we even saw Google testing this in the wild with deeper AI Overviews with tons of links. Well, now, in the U.S. AI Overviews are officially powered by Gemini…
Google Search Tests More Favicon Designs
Google is testing more favicon designs within Google Search. I mean, we cover these way too often but hey, I like favicons, don’t you?
Bing Ads Auto Expanding Sitelinks
It looks like Microsoft is testing search ads that auto expand to reveal sitelinks under those ads within the Bing Search results. You don’t need to click or do anything and the ad will dynamically expand to show more sitelinks underneath the search a…
Google Search Liaison Gets An Assist
Rajan Patel, a VP, Engineering for Search at Google and the Co-founder of Google Lens, is now also offering an assist to Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liason. For the past several weeks, Rajan Patel’s X profile also was tagged as being associated w…
Early March Google Search Ranking Volatility
I’ve been watching the volatility ever since the unconfirmed February 26th or so ranking volatility when the tools didn’t show much of a spike but the chatter was super high. Well, the tools started to show the spike around March 1st and the chatter i…
Google Products Top Insights Using Generative AI
Google is now using generative AI, and labeling it as such, within the Google Search product details overlay. When you click on a product listing in Google Search, the overlay window has a section called top insights. That section can be generated us…
Google Business Reviews Gain Expressive Reactions
Google now supports expressive reactions for Google reviews on mobile search and maps. This shows up when viewing a Google Business Profile’s reviews on mobile.
Google Search AI Overviews For Movie Reviews
Google is now showing AI Overviews within the movie review summaries in Google Search. Under the review summaries is a disclaimer that reads, “Al overviews are experimental.”
Google Shopping AI Vision Match, Try Out New Looks & Try On Expands
Google announced a number of updates to Google Shopping and Search with AI enhancements and expansions. Specifically rolling out vision match, a new try out new looks feature and expanding the try on feature to more clothing.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 4, 2025
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.
Google posted new data that says they answer over 5 trillion queries per year…
Google Answers Over 5 Trillion Searches Per Year
Google has posted some fresh data, saying they answer over 5 trillion searches per year. The last time we saw this data was in 2016, when Google was at 2 trillion searches per year and then 1.2 trillion in 2012.
Report: 1/3rd Don’t Use Google Search All That Much
A new report released by Rand Fishkin at Sparktoro with the help of Datos’ panel measure web browser activity showed that about 1/3rd of active web users don’t use Google all that much, by that much it means they only do 1-20X searches per month.
Google Merchant Center Next Updates Product Analytics
Google has made a number of updates to the product analytics section within Google Merchant Center Next. Organic conversions have been renamed to Purchases. Plus, Google lets you specify it’s traffic to PDPsm instead of products, and labels.
Google Business Profiles Create QR Codes For Reviews
Google added QR codes that you can give your customers to quickly leave you a review for your business on Google Search and Google Maps. This can be accessed in your Google Business Profiles under the reviews section.
Google: 10% Of Younger Google Searches Start With Circle To Search
Did you know that 10% of all searches on Google from a younger audience start with Google’s new circle to search feature? That is what Roma Datta Chobey, the Managing Director at Google India, said last week.
Daily Search Forum Recap: March 3, 2025
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.
Google Ads stopped running for many advertisers over the weekend…
March 2025 Google Webmaster Report
It is time for the monthly Google Webmaster Report. We are now in March as we continue to wait for the first Google core update of 2025. We did have a number of big unconfirmed Google updates, as documented below.