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.
Google Local Business Panel: Chat With Live Agent
Google has been rolling out “chat with live agent” buttons in some local business panels within Google Search. This seems to be part of the Google Business Profile messaging platform.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 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.
The Google May algorithm update is heating up even more…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Unconfirmed May Google Update, Bing Chat Opens To All, E-E-A-T Factors & Syndicated Content
This week, I posted the monthly Google webmaster report for May 2023. Google may have pushed out an unconfirmed search algorithm update on May 1st and 2nd…
Google: We Do Not Trust Links From Spammy Sites
In the latest Google SEO office hours, Google said that Google does not trust outbound links from a site they think is spammy. Duy Nguyen from the Google Search Quality team said this at the 35 second mark into the video.
Google Early May Search Algorithm Unconfirmed Update Heats Up
Earlier this week, we reported on an unconfirmed Google search ranking update on May 1st and 2nd. Well, throughout the week, things have heated up a lot more, and we are seeing more volatility reported by the tools and more SEO chatter within the comm…
Google Video Structured Data No Longer Requires Descriptions
Google has updated the video structured data to say that the description property is no longer a required field. Instead, Google moved the description property item to the “recommended” section, from the “required” section of the help document.