Google Search Generative Experience Results Are Not Really Personalized
Google’s all-new search engine, the Search Generative Experience, which began to rollout for some, is really not more personalized than what you get from Google’s traditional search results. Google is currently not offering a more personalized search r…
Microsoft: Bing Chat To Work On All Browsers Soon
Microsoft will bring Bing Chat to all browsers and not force you to use Microsoft Edge to use Bing Chat, in the near future. When exactly, we are not sure, but Bing’s CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, has been saying that on Twitter for numerous weeks now.
Google Bard Can Now Provide More Precise Local Results
Google released an update to Google Bard last night that allows you to share your precise location with Bard for it to give you more accurate and relevant local results.
Google Search Generative Experience Is Missing The Result Count
Google’s new Search Generative Experience seems to be missing one thing that SEOs and reporters often look at: the number of results Google returns for that query.
Google Search Adds More Detailed Car Comparison Tools
Google keeps expanding its car search features, threatening the Edmunds and car websites out there. Here you can see Google showing you car comparison tools and charts to help you pick the best car for your needs.
Google Local Service Ads Mass Policy Violation Notices
Google sent out mass policy violation notices to some Local Service Ads advertisers. The notice is being sent via email and the subject line reads, “Your account has policy violations that need to be resolved.” Google is giving these advertisers unti…
Google Updates Shopping Ads, Free Listings Policy Center & How Shopping Works Documents
Google had updated the Shopping ads Policy Center and free listings Policy Center to “better explain” the policies and how Google enforces those policies, the company posted.
Google Says Charitable Donations In Exchange For Business Reviews Is Against Guidelines
Google has told Joy Hawkins that giving charitable donations in exchange for a positive review on your Google Business Profile listing is against its guidelines.
Google Search Treats .AI ccTLD As gTLD (Domains)
Google has updated its help document to add the .ai generic country code top level domain (ccTLD) to the the list of domains it treats as generic top level domain (gTLDs).
Google Search Console Reporting Some Mobile Indexing As Desktop Indexing
Google has a bug in Google Search Console where it reported some sites being indexed using mobile indexing as being indexed using desktop indexing. I am sure we all have sites that are “mobile friendly” and also show that Google is indexing it using th…
Bing Teases Bing Chat Webmaster Tools Reporting – It’s Almost Ready
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing posted a tease on Twitter of the heavily anticipated upgrade to Bing Webmaster Tools. We are expecting Bing Chat reporting, so we can see impressions and clicks directly from Bing Chat to our sites, like Bing shows us…
Google Search Console Insights Upgrade Adds Insights For Sites Not Associated With Google Analytics
Google announced that Search Console Insights, where the property is not associated with a Google Analytics property, was upgraded to show more insights. Specifically new content performance insights, such as your site’s most popular and trending conte…
Bing CEO: Google Bard Uses A Much Smaller Model Than Bing Chat
Mikhail Parakhin, the current CEO of Bing at Microsoft and former CTO at Yandex said that Google Bard uses a “much smaller model” than Bing Chat. This came after someone complimented Bard for its speed over Bing Chat.
Bing Chat Sports Grounding & Android Widget
Bing Chat is now better at answering sports-related questions with new sports grounding and it also now has an Android search widget. Bing also announced other changes to Bing Chat over the weekend.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 30, 2023
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 Search Console performance report was heavily delayed, Google is (or was) working on a fix…
Vlog #225: Menachem Ani On Google Ads & Structuring Performance Max Campaigns
I went to Menachem Ani’s office, JXT Group, to chat all things paid search. We first spoke about he first got into the Google Ads business, he was doing Google Ads since the early times. He started in the space doing ads for eBay listings…
Google Search Generative Experience Early Complaints & Responses From Google
Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism of this new searc…
Bing Chat Adds Anchor Text Hyperlinks Within Answers
Instead of just showing citations in the footer of the response and answers in Bing Chat, Bing is now showing anchor text hyperlinks as responses. In fact, if you watch the answer being built, Bing Chat will create the actual HTML hyperlink.
Bing Video Search “More Like This” Action
Bing has a feature in the Bing video search results to see “more like this” on video overlays. Plus, there are a few more features here on the video landing page in Bing Video search.
Google: Allow GoogleBot To Bypass Age Gate On Adult Content
Google has updated its SafeSearch, adult content filter, help documentation to say you should not show the age gate prompt to Googlebot. Google wrote, “For content behind a mandatory age gate, we recommend allowing Googlebot to crawl your content witho…