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New Bingbot user-agent now fully live
After a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
Google search, network, and YouTube revenue all fell in Q4 2022
Google's Q4 earnings report showed a decline in ad revenue, missing analysts' expectations, due to challenges in the digital advertising market.
How to manage and edit your Google Business Profile from Google search
Managing your GBP listing from Google search is the new norm. Here's an overview of the in-search experience features you need to know.
Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT interface spotted in the wild
We know Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT into its search interface.
Sundar Pichai confirms Google is working on AI search feature users can “engage directly with”
In the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company's plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
Make the switch to GA4, or Google will do it for you
Starting next month, advertisers should begin creating new Google Analytics 4 properties, or they'll be automatically configured.
Meta blames weak advertising demand, rivals for Q4 2022 revenue decline
Rivals such as TikTok and continuing effects from App Tracking Transparency attributed to last quarter's decline.
Google’s search quality raters protest for higher pay
Google's search quality raters – the people who help evaluate Google's search results – want a raise.
Microsoft revises multi-channel advertising approach and discontinues bid modifiers for audience ads
Together, Microsoft says their Search and Audience networks can reach over a billion people.
Report: Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT feature to be faster and richer with GPT-4
As reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft's plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search.
ChatGPT Plus launches, it costs $20 a month
OpenAI said users can access the paid version of its popular ChatGPT service during peak times and get faster responses to prompts.
Google Maps removed policy-abiding reviews from Local Guides
Google is working on restoring the reviews over the next few weeks.
Google testing new search design with AI answers over organic results
We may have gotten our first preview of at what chatbot-style Google desktop search results will look like later this year
Microsoft Bing to rely more on lastmod date in XML sitemap files for crawling
Microsoft also released some interesting stats on lastmod dates in XML sitemap files.
Google Search Console Video indexing report gains video impressions overlay and sitemap filter
Google has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Search Engine Land’s updated What is PPC guide is now available
The evolution of PPC in recent years calls for an updated guide. Our improved version will bring you up to speed.
Is Google using a ChatGPT-like system for spam and AI content detection and ranking websites?
Key SEO takeaways from Google's 2020 paper on how text-generation models can be successfully used to detect low-quality content.
Twitter announces the end of CoTweets
Twitter discontinues co-tweeting feature after it failed to meet expectations under Elon Musk's leadership.
LinkedIn now lets you add an SEO title and description
Publishing articles on LinkedIn? Now you can customize how your SEO title and description will appear in search engines.
Meta advertising: 5 best practices for 2023
As Meta continues to lead the social media pack, advertisers must stay competitive on Facebook and Instagram. Here are five ways to do so.