Google To Label Some Search Ads With “Not A Government Website”
Google updated its Other restricted businesses: Government documents and services policy to say it may label some search ads to say, “Not a government website.”
Prompt: Analyse My Competitors Using Hobo SEO Analyser
Hobo Content Intelligence Engine DAY 1 – Update 1: V1: It takes about 24 hours for this methodology to propagate. Initial tests with Gemini Pro are showing a significant uplift in the strategic depth of SERP analysis. You don’t even need to cut and pas…
Bing Tests Colorful Lines In Search Results
Microsoft Bing is testing colorful lines and separator sections in the Bing Search results. The colors are in blue, orange and gray (and maybe more).
Bing Search Ads With Free Shipping Text Attributes
Microsoft is testing showing text attributes that can say things like “Free Shipping on Qualified Orders” with an icon next to the search ads on Bing Search. This is not just the CTA buttons that these ads have supported for a while but additional tex…
Google Search Tests Featured Stores Sponsored Ads Section
Google is testing a new sponsored ads section in the search results named Featured Stores. This reminds me of the from online stores but that was organic/free, not ads.
Google Search Testing Shaded Stock Price Interface
Google is testing a shaded box design for the stock pricing and information in the Google Search results. Google has these shaded designs in other areas as well but for now, this may just be a test.
Prompt: Rewrite My Page Using The Hobo SEO Rewriter
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Prompt: Check My Topical Authority in AI answers using Hobo SEO Researcher
This isn’t just another rank checker. It is a strategic intelligence framework designed to analyse the competitive landscape through the same lens as Google’s own core systems.
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Search Central Live Dubai 2025
For the first time, Search Central Live is coming to Dubai on October 21, 2025!
After events in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, we’re continuing our mission to help
you enhance your site’s performance in Google Search, live i…
What is Google’s Content Effort Signal?
Recent leaks like the content warehouse data leak from inside Google have given us the clearest picture yet of how the search engine truly values digital content. We were also told in the Google v. DOJ trial that “Most of Google’s quality signal is der…
Google AI Mode Travel Planning Gains More Features
Google AI Mode has had travel planning for some time but according to some in the travel industry, Google recently began rolling out more of these features in the wild. These include dynamic day-by-day trip plans, hotel add-ons, tickets, and dining st…
Google: Authentication For SEO Tools & Personal Crawlers
Google’s John Mueller posted saying “Authentication for your personal crawlers & SEO tools is going to be more and more of a topic.” I believe, but I can be wrong, this is alluding to the num parameter being disabled and how tools are having issues now…
Bing Tests Bolds Titles For Search Results & Ads
Microsoft is testing bolding the title links in the Bing search results for both the organic and paid listings. I am not sure if this was a bug or a test, but I suspect it was a test.
Bing Tests Sitelinks Interfaces Again
Microsoft is testing various interfaces for the sitelinks in Bing Search. We’ve seen and reported on Bing testing sitelinks many, many times here, so here are a few more variations.
Google AI Mode Tests Moving Query To Right Side
Google is testing moving your query from the left top position to the right top position of the AI response within AI Mode. This is a subtle change but it is interesting to see Google test these small changes to AI Mode.
How To Diversify Your Traffic Outside of Google SERPS
Is your traffic strategy too reliant on Google SERPs? Learn how digital PR and brand-led content can diversify your traffic and build lasting visibility beyond search.
Chrome Screen AI Protos
├───aocr│ └───google_ocr│ └───engine│ └───page_layout_mutators│ group_rpn_text_detection_mutator_runtime_options.proto│├───aphotos│ └───vision│ └───visionkit│ ├───drishti│ │ hexagon_delegate_calculator.proto│ ││ ├───engines│ │ └───proto│ │ audio_classifications.proto│ ││ ├───pipeline│ │ ├───drishti│ │ │ └───calculators│ │ │ tflite_task_object_detector_calculator.proto│ │ ││ │ └───proto│ │ face_cascade_options.proto│ │ hand_tracking_result.proto│ ││ └───text│ └───proto│ text_orientation_tracker.proto│├───chrome│ └───accessibility│ └───machine_intelligence│ └───chrome_screen_ai│ chrome_screen_ai.proto│├───frameworks│ └───client│ └───data│ data_annotation.proto│├───google│ ├───api│ │ inclusion.proto│ │ visibility.proto│ ││ ├───internal│ │ └───visionkit│ │ […]
RexBERT
RexBERT is a domain-specialized language model trained on massive volumes of e-commerce text (product titles, descriptions, attributes, reviews, FAQs). Unlike general-purpose transformers, it is optimized to understand the quirks of product data and the way consumers phrase queries. For a technical SEO professional, this means better alignment between how search engines interpret product content and […]
Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5786 – Happy & Healthy Jewish New Year
This is a programming note that Tuesday and Wednesday are Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 23rd and September 24th…
Daily Search Forum Recap: September 22, 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 completed the rollout of the August 2025 spam update today…