Google shows off Circle to Search and new AI-multisearch experience
Google Search keeps getting more interactive with the user experience for searching.
Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
Google Search keeps getting more interactive with the user experience for searching.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 17, 2024 at 2:10 pm ETSome vertical search features may show up less in Europe, such as Google Flights.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 17, 2024 at 11:36 am ETIt seems more like a game of Whac-A-Mole, where the results get better, than worse, and then better as Google releases updates.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 17, 2024 at 8:26 am ETCopilot Pro gives you the latest features and best models that Microsoft AI has to offer.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 15, 2024 at 2:00 pm ETGoogle said these changes are to "focus on quality and reliability" but Google has also fired hundreds of employees with these changes.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 11, 2024 at 8:26 am ETGoogle confirmed the issue some mobile users seeing a blank home page and is working on a fix.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 9, 2024 at 8:56 am ETYou can no longer set your desired crawl rate within Google Search Console.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 9, 2024 at 8:45 am ETGoogle removed references to rich results the snippet control help document.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 8, 2024 at 5:58 am ETIn 2023, we had nine official and confirmed Google algorithm updates - which was one less than the previous two years.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 26, 2023 at 8:00 am ETGoogle said it is "working on identifying the root cause" that is affecting a "small number of sites."
Barry Schwartz | Dec 21, 2023 at 12:30 pm ETIf your business isn't open 24/7, Google does not recommend you change your business listing to be open 24 hours per day.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 16, 2023 at 8:23 pm ETThis update will be the last time Google has confirmed a reviews update.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 7, 2023 at 12:27 pm ETKeep in mind, the November 2023 Reviews update overlapped with this core update and is still rolling out.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 6, 2023 at 8:25 am ETThis e-commerce related search reporting will end next month, in January 2024, Google said.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 6, 2023 at 6:00 am ETIf your video is not the primary part of the page, Google will not show your videos in search and within "Video mode" of Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 4, 2023 at 1:14 pm ETWe knew this was coming and now these Google mobile tools are no longer available.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 4, 2023 at 11:03 am ETThis new vacation rental structured data comes with new Search Console and Rich Results reports.
Barry Schwartz | Dec 4, 2023 at 6:22 am ETThis may be the first and only patent Google has related to SGE.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 30, 2023 at 7:47 am ETGoogle has updated the Search Console and Rich Results test reporting to support these new additions.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 29, 2023 at 6:05 am ETThe fourth broad core algorithm update of 2023 is now done rolling out.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 28, 2023 at 11:38 am ETGoogle can show these as rich results in Google Search and Google also added new Search Console reports.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 27, 2023 at 10:31 am ETYou may be seeing a 500 error when trying to access the tool.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 27, 2023 at 8:21 am ETThe tool is going away on January 8, 2024 because Google says it is no longer useful.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 24, 2023 at 9:51 am ETGoogle is working on a fix, this has no impact on indexing or ranking.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 21, 2023 at 7:44 am ETGoogle said it is "making it easy for U.S. shoppers to discover and shop at small businesses this weekend and beyond."
Barry Schwartz | Nov 20, 2023 at 7:00 am ETIt has been 11 months since the last update, here is what changed.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 16, 2023 at 3:37 pm ETThe lawsuit alleges two men created over 65 Google accounts and submitted hundreds of thousands of fake DMCA takedown requests to remove competitors from the search results.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 16, 2023 at 9:54 am ETThis uses GPT 4 to make the Bing search results more relevant and informative, Bing said.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2023 at 5:57 pm ETAt SMX today, Brian Provost, the SVP & GM at Yahoo said the new Yahoo Search experience will be launching soon.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2023 at 2:57 pm ETGoogle has sunset the robots.txt tester.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2023 at 11:43 am ETGoogle will surface personal insights and experiences from social media blog posts and forums. This is not an updated helpful content update.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2023 at 10:00 am ETPlus, perspectives is coming to desktop, content creators get more visibility and more.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2023 at 10:00 am ETThe notes feature is a labs experiment that you can turn on or off.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 15, 2023 at 10:00 am ETDanny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, was quoted as saying that major changes are coming Google's search ranking algorithms.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 13, 2023 at 9:49 am ETThe reports are within Google Search Console's performance report, where you filter by search appearance.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 13, 2023 at 8:15 am ETSGE now in more countries, more languages with more features.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm ETThis is the third reviews update of the year and the last reviews update Google will likely confirm.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 8, 2023 at 12:00 pm ETPlus the good page experience search appearance filter from the Performance report has been removed.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 8, 2023 at 11:30 am ETHaving a patent does not mean that Bing is using these techniques in Bing Search - but it is fun to read.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 7, 2023 at 9:21 am ETPart of job of the Search Liaison at Google is to share feedback on how to improve search.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 6, 2023 at 10:54 am ET