Google’s Pichai: Search Ads With AI Overviews Earn Same As Ads Without
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said that search ads with AI Overviews are at a baseline, at the same level as search ads without AI Overviews, in terms of ad revenue per query. He added, and now it is just about going up from there, and with AI, he does…
Google’s Pichai: Search Ads With AI Overviews Earn Same As Ads Without
Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said that search ads with AI Overviews are at a baseline, at the same level as search ads without AI Overviews, in terms of ad revenue per query. He added, and now it is just about going up from there, and with AI, he does…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 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 confirmed ads with AI Overviews make as much as ads without AI Overviews on the page…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 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 confirmed ads with AI Overviews make as much as ads without AI Overviews on the page…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Rethinking Search, Replacing Reddit, Search Console Annotations & So Much More
This week, we covered, you guessed it, more Google search ranking volatility. Google also said they are rethinking its search stack from the ground up because of LLMs. Google is testing AI Overviews in more regions and languages prior to Google I/O/ Go…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Rethinking Search, Replacing Reddit, Search Console Annotations & So Much More
This week, we covered, you guessed it, more Google search ranking volatility. Google also said they are rethinking its search stack from the ground up because of LLMs. Google is testing AI Overviews in more regions and languages prior to Google I/O/ Go…
Google Maps 2024: 999 Million Reviews & 752 Million Photos / Videos Published
Last month we shared the spam efforts the Google Maps team announced – but did you know that in 2024 Google had almost one billion reviews published within Google Maps? That is 999 million reviews, 752 million photos and videos and 94 million place ed…
Apple Maps Adds Insights, Ratings & Reviews From More Sources
Apple announced this week that it partnered with MICHELIN Guide; The Infatuation and Golf Digest to provide “insights, ratings, and reviews from expert sources” within Apple Maps.
Google Working To Make It Easier To Share AI Overviews & AI Mode
Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, confirmed Google is working on making it easier to share AI Overviews within Google Search and AI Mode responses.
Bing Shopping Tests Shading Site Names
Microsoft is testing shading the site names, the brand names, of retailers in the Bing Shopping search results. So the name Amazon is in a blue shaded background color as opposed to just saying Amazon.com.
Google Search AI Shuffle Button
Google is testing a “Shuffle” button in some of its AI generated answers within the Google Search results. When you click the shuffle button, it seems to redo or change up the response Google’s AI gives you.
A Declining Internet
For as broad and difficult of a problem running a search engine is and how many competing interests are involved, when Matt Cutts was at Google they ran a pretty clean show. Some of what they did before the algorithms could catch up was of course fearm…
Google’s Hyung-Jin Kim Shares Google Search Ranking Signals
On February 18, 2025 Google’s Hyung-Jin Kim was interviewed about Google’s ranking signals. Below are notes from that interview.
“Hand Crafting” of Signals
Almost every signal, aside from RankBrain and DeepRank (which are LLM-based) are hand-crafted an…
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 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 is rethinking its search stack from the ground up due to LLMs…
Google Rethinking Search Stack From Ground Up With LLMs
Another Google court document from the DOJ trial showed that Google said it is currently rethinking its entire search stack, from the ground up, with LLMs playing a more fundamental role. The doc said:
Google Doc: Link Position & Click Bias Ranking Bias Adjustment
The details from the DOJ and Google monopoly case hearing exhibits just keep on flowing and with that, we have another mention of how Google does look at clicks from the search results. This one talks about how the position of the link can be a bias to…
Google Ads New Ads Funded By Details
Earlier this month, Google updated its Ads Transparency policy to specify that it will display the payment profile name as the payer name for verified advertisers. Well, now we are starting to see a new section that says “Ads funded by” on the “My Ad C…
Google Ads Device Targeting Controls For Performance Max Campaigns
Google is rolling out device targeting controls and features within Google Ads Performance Max campaigns. We knew this was coming and now it seems to be rolling out to some (not all) advertisers. This allows you to target based on device type, such as…
Google Search Tests Vertical Search Labels In Autocomplete
Google is testing showing the vertical search category a query belongs to in its autocomplete search suggestions. When you click into the Google Search box, even before you begin typing your query, Google shows search suggestions and some of those sear…
Google Search Testing New Sub/Second Menu
Google is testing a new sub or secondary menu under the search bar in Google Search. This secondary menu, or sub-menu, is below the main search vertical options and is missing the bubble format that we’ve seen Google use for this sub-menu.