Google Ads Tests Sitelinks Carousels With Images
Google is testing showing images within the sitelinks carousel in Google Ads and sponsored results. We’ve seen images in sitelinks before, numerous times, but here is a version of them in the ads extension.
New Google Merchant Center Event Promotion
Google has a “new feature,” as it labeled it, within Google Merchant Center, for event promotions. This allows you to promote an event, such as a sale, promotion or occasion, that may help you sell product.
Google Site Commands Display AI Overviews
Here is a weird one – doing a site command and Google presenting an AI Overview summary of the results. In this case, the AI Overview was dead wrong – which is not all that uncommon – but why show an AI Overview here?
Google Business Profiles Information Edit Rejection Notice
Google is now sending emails to business owners when a Google Business Profile information edit was rejected. The email subject line says “A recent information edit was rejected,” and then it tells you more details on why and allows you to read the pol…
Brazilian Publishers Not Happy With Google & Discover
For the past week or so, news publishers from Brazil have not been happy with Google. It seems that Google Discover is broken for a lot of Brazilians, showing irrelevant content to users and searchers, and not showing content from the typical publisher…
Google Popular Products With Video & Content Reviews (Some 55 Years Old)
We’ve seen variations of Google’s popular products section in the search results show both article and video content reviews. But now we are seeing another format for it, one that even links to laptop reviews from 55 years ago, a good ten years before…
Google Ads Tests New Ad Group Interface For Search Campaigns
Google is testing a new ad groups interface for the Google Ads Search campaigns console. This seems to be a simpler interface with fewer options than the current version.
Jerry Dischler, Former Google Ads Boss, Leaving Google After Almost 20 Years
Jerry Dischler, the almost 20 year Google executive, is reportedly leaving Google a year and a half after he stepped down from that position. Jerry Dischler was involved in a lot of the Department of Justice negativity around Google’s ad business, whic…
Google before: & after: Operators Still In Beta Six Years Later
Six years ago, Google dropped some of its search tools date filters and then added new operators for before: and after: that let you filter content by specific dates. Well, six years later, that feature is still in beta.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 5, 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 testing replacing the local pack in the search results with AI Overviews…
Google Tests Replacing Map Local Pack With AI Overviews
Google may be testing replacing local pack at the top of the Google Search results for “near me” related queries with an AI Overview. So instead of showing a map and the three or so local listings, Google is showing an AI Overview with some local info…
Google Shopping Ads Tests Label For Lowest In 30 Days
Google is testing a new label or green text on its shopping ads to tell you when the price of that item is low. The label says “Lowest in 30 days,” which says the price is the lowest it has been in the past month.
Google’s AI Crawler For Gemini, Google-Extended, Does Render JavaScript
Google’s AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google’s main web search crawler.
Google Ads PMax Search Themes Tests 50 Limit (Up From 25)
Google Ads search themes for Performance Max campaign has a limit of 25 search themes per asset group. Well, according to Thomas Eccel, Google is testing doubling that limit to 50 search themes per asset group.
Google Tag Gateway For Advertisers & More
Google announced a number of new tag, analytics and data strategies on Friday including a new Google tag gateway for advertisers. Google tag gateway for advertisers allows you to run your Google tags, be it client-side or server-side through your own …
Google AdSense To Not Allow You To Block Video Games Ads
Google AdSense will remove the ability to block the video games category of ads. So if you previously told AdSense not to show ads related to video games on your site or in your apps, that block will soon not be respected.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 2, 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 AI Mode is now out in the wild, drops waitlist…
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Volatility, Wild AI Mode, Google Ads Commercial Queries & Channel Reporting & ChatGPT Shopping Search
This week we covered the ongoing Google Search ranking volatility. I posted the big Google webmaster report for May. Google admitted in a deposition that it used its search data for Gemini AI. Google Search Console leaked that it was showing desktop da…
Google Testing AI Mode In Wild; Adds Product/Place Cards, History Tab & More
Google is expanding AI Mode both in terms of features and access. Google is testing AI Mode in the wild with a limited number of searchers. Google also opened up its waitlist to all 18+ U.S. users. Google added product and place cards to the AI Mode re…
Google Merchant Center New Search For Products Feature
Google added a new way to search for your products in the Google Merchant Center console. There is a new search button named “Search for Products” that you can click on and will let you pick from a pre-defined set of searches or you can type your own s…