Google expands AI Overviews to over 100 countries
This will bring AI Overviews to over 1 billion users and should work in any of the currently supported languages.
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Google Search demoting content that is starkly different from the main content of the site
A Google spokesperson told Glenn Gabe, "Our systems aim to understand if a section of a site is independent or starkly different from the main content of the site. This helps us surface the most useful information from a range of sites."
Google Search Console performance report bug causes panic
Many of you woke up to seeing zero close to clicks and impressions this morning, this is an issue on Google's end Google confirmed.
Google Search to drop Sitelinks Search Box
This does not impact sitelinks but will impact the search box sitelinks feature.
Bing Webmaster Tools gains recommendations, 16 months of data and previews Copilot integration
Recommendations enhances top insights and it previously offered up to 6 months of data.
Microsoft working on simplifying Bing
Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, said they "unshipped 27 features" in Bing.
Google Search expands Store ratings to more countries
Now these are available on Google Search in India, Australia, Canada, and the UK.
Google Product Studio launches AI-generated video creation tool
This is now rolling out to US based merchants.
Google rolls out new AI-organized search results, AI Overview links
Google's organized search results will let you see content and perspectives from all around the web – articles, videos, forums and more.
Bing expands generative search experience and Deep Search
Bing generative search experience now works for informational queries.
Google Search Console Performance report filters now stick
There is a "reset filters" option to remove the filters you previously set.
Google updates its spam policies document
Google added more details on site reputation abuse, while updated and clarifying other sections of the search spam policies.
Google adds support for sale pricing and priceType property
Google said this makes it easier for merchants to specify sale pricing through structured data and bring parity with price features in Merchant Center.
Google Search completely kills the cache feature
9 months after Google dropped the cache link and 2 weeks after Google added the Wayback Machine links, the cache operator has fully stopped working.
Data providers: Google August 2024 core update was very volatile
Google said the March 2024 core update was their biggest core update but the August 2024 core update did shake things up, in a big way.
Google updates crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation
With that, Google expanded how Google products are affected by each crawler and gave robots.txt examples for each crawler.
Google Search adds Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine links to about this page
This comes after Google dropped the cache link from the search results.
Apple Visual Intelligence – search using your iPhone camera
Apple uses Google, OpenAI and other search providers for the search results.
Google Search testing new display for forum content
This new user interface shows top comments and related discussions around that forum search result snippet.
Google August 2024 core update rollout is now complete
The update took 19 days to rollout and was a pretty impactful update.
Google Trends email subscriptions to stop working on October 29
This comes shortly after Google updated the user interface for the trending now results.
Google Search now supports AVIF file formats
This means AVIF images will show in Google Search, Images, News, Discover and more.
Google Search may now use OG title for title links
Google added a 9th source that Google Search may use for title links.
Google Search ranking bug is now resolved
The four-plus day ranking bug, that kicked off around the same time of the August core update is now fixed.
Google August 2024 core update: What we’re seeing so far
Some sites hit by the September 2023 helpful content update are seeing some small signs of life. Will it last?
Google Search ranking bug unrelated to the core update
This bug is impacting a large number of the search results but Google identified the issue.
Google AI Overviews now show for signed-out users in the US
You no longer need to be logged in to see AI Overviews in the US, Google confirmed this is rolled out to all US searchers.
Google August 2024 core update rolling out now
One of the aims of the Google August 2024 core update is to surface useful content from small and independent sites.
Google AI Overviews gains new citations and links, plus more
Google is also rolling out AI Overviews in United Kingdom, India, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil and expanding Search labs features and availability.
Google gives new look for trending now section of Google Trends
The new design fits more trending keywords and gives you a nicer and more actionable interface to do your research with.
Google Search Console launches recommendations
This is an experimental feature, so you might not see it yet.
Report: Google Search traffic and queries not impacted by new competing AI search engines
New data from Datos’ clickstream panel analyzed by Sonata Insights showed Google traffic grew over the year, despite all the new AI competitors.
Google updates deepfakes search algorithms and controls and expands About this image
Google is making it easier to remove deepfakes and also expands About this image to Circle to Search and Google Lens.
Google Discover promoting AI Overviews for Olympic Games in Paris
Clicking to see the AI Overview takes you into a Google Search results page with the AI Overview at the top.
Microsoft confirms Reddit blocked Bing Search
Reddit updated its robots.txt file prohibiting Bing and some other search engines from crawling its site.
Bing testing new generative search experience
Microsoft said this "combines the power of LLMs and SLMs with Bing’s search results to generate a more delightful and efficient UX layout."
Billions of Google redirects to stop working next year
Google announced its URL shortener service will stop working completely on August 25, 2025.
Google ending Notes on Search by end of the month
Google launched Notes in Search 8 months ago as a labs experiment - that experiment ends today.
New Google core update coming in weeks
The last core update was the March 2024 core update, and many sites are still waiting since September 2023 to see helpful content recoveries.
Google Business Profile chat is gone and call history going away
This is just a reminder that Google has discontinued Google Business Profile chat yesterday and call history is going away.