Google’s New AI-Generated Image Label & Meta Data Required
Google also is now asking you to self-label your AI-generated images as AI generated with a IPTC photo meta data attribute. This way Google can label images as being AI-generated in the image search results.
Google About This Image Snippet Feature
Google has launched the “about this image” feature at Google I/O, it is similar to when Google launched the “about this result” two years ago.
Goodbye FID, Hello INP – Interaction to Next Paint Coming To Google Core Web Vitals
As expected, although it took a lot longer than we thought, Google announced it will be replacing the FID metric with the INP metric for its Core Web Vitals. This won’t happen until March 2024, but it will happen.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 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.
Bing Chat AI model improvements will improve Bing’s core search algorithm…
Bing Chat AI Improvements Will Improve Bing’s Core Search Algorithm, But…
Did you know that some of the improvements being made to the Bing Chat AI models will lead to improvements to the Bing Search core ranking algorithms? Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said this on Twitter yesterday.
Google I/O Is Today – Watch The Keynote Here
Google I/O kicks off today and we are all expecting really big Google Search-related news today. Typically, I/O is focused on everything but core search but today, we are expecting the all-new search engine, Magi, and a bunch of new AI-focused search f…
Google: High Quality Content Might Still Be Of Low Value To The Web
Google’s John Mueller had one of his good oneliners again. He posted a reply on Twitter saying, “something can be high-quality content with a lot of information for users and still be of low value for the web.”
Google Tests “Show More” Button On People Also Ask
Google Search is testing adding a “show more” button on the “people also ask” section of its search results. When you click on the button, it will load more results underneath it.
Google Finally Unofficially Comments On Drop in FAQ Rich Results
Over the past month or so, we’ve been seeing a huge drop in the number of FAQ rich results Google has been displaying both on mobile search and now desktop. Google has not commented or said anything on the topic, that is until now.
Google Maps With Addresses In Multiple Languages
Google can show your business address in more than one language within Google Maps and the Google local search results. So if you have a hotel, Google might be able to show the address both in English and the local language, like French in our example…
Microsoft Advertising Ads For AI Chat Solutions
Microsoft Advertising announced a new ad solution for AI-powered chat experiences and solutions. Microsoft said this is a new way to help monetize online services, apps, and publishers monetize chat platforms.
Google Business Profile Conversion Actions & Chats In Google Ads
Anthony Higman shared a couple new Google Ads and Google Business Profile items yesterday on Twitter. One on Google Business Profile conversion actions within Google Ads and the other are chat details in Google Ads.
Microsoft: Bing Chat AI Models May Be Updated Three Times Per Year
Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search, said on Twitter that Bing Chat’s various AI models take months to train and thus you might see updated models released to the public maybe three-times per year.
Microsoft: Bing Chat Growing Faster Than Servers Can Handle
Microsoft Bing Chat is growing so fast that the team can’t add enough GPUs fast enough to keep up with the growth. This leads to some Bing Chat experiences being slow and a bit laggy. But Microsoft is aware and hopes to be able to improve here.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 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.
With Google I/O around the corner…
Vlog #222: Glenn Gabe on AI Content, E-E-A-T & The Future
In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of AI-generated content…
Is This What Google Search May Be Launching At I/O?
For the past couple of weeks now, we’ve been hearing reports of how Google will change Google Search in the wake of AI and changes in searcher behavior. As many of you know, I cover a ton of Google Search user interface changes and I put together a co…
Bing Search “Learn More On” & Microsoft Edge Deal Days
Microsoft Bing is testing a new section named “Learn more on.” This section seems to give you search refinements and expanders to find more information related to your original query. Bing is also adding a box named “Microsoft Edge Deal Days” to some s…
Google: hreflang x-default Can Help Feed URLs To Google It Might Not Otherwise See
Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google Search blog about some of the more “hidden” advantages of using hreflang x-default value. As Gary noted on LinkedIn, “incidentally, it can also help with feeding Googlebot URLs that the poor thing otherwise …
Google Search Snippet With Visual Explore Features
We have seen the Google Explore feature many times, but here is a similar explore feature but as a sub-feature of a single search result snippet. Google is testing showing a scrollable snippet that is more visual and interactive.