Hands-on with Google’s new Search Generative Experience
Here's your early look at a variety of searches on the new Google Search Generative Experience.
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Here's your early look at a variety of searches on the new Google Search Generative Experience.
Some of you who signed up for the waitlist will get an email notifying you that you have access to try out the new labs search experience.
Google released an update today that is better at summarizing information and identifying sources for its answers.
Google's related topics filter was launched on mobile in December and is now on desktop after months of testing.
Bard also adds dark mode, Google Lens, more integrations, all announced at Google I/O.
In addition to the new Google Search Generative Experience, Google launched a few new features in the old search engine.
You can use Bard to help you code up some Python scripts to automate some of your daily SEO or PPC tasks.
Bard always showed multiple drafts but now those drafts are more distinct from each other, Google explained.
When a video isn't the main content, Google won't show it as a thumbnail. Google's testing showed a "minimal impact" on publishers.
Google also now has a release notes document to track updates to Bard.
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Google said it will link to citations when Bard directly quote at length from a webpage.
You can sign up for the waitlist if you are based in the US or UK.
Google wants to be clear: Bard is separate from Search. Yet it has become synonymous with generative AI features coming soon to Search.
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The excitement and interest are very real for the new Microsoft Bing search experience.
Google Lens is now used over 10 billion times per month.
Your Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
We know Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT into its search interface.
In the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company's plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
We may have gotten our first preview of at what chatbot-style Google desktop search results will look like later this year
Google says headlines should be concise, eliminates 110 character limit.
Google announced this as a pilot feature in India, but some in the U.S. are also seeing it.
This new document explains the most common user interface elements of Google web search page.
Here's a set of guidelines to follow when optimizing for the featured snippet – like using an “is” statement and defining the topic concisely.
As previewed at the Search On event, now these new related topics options can show in the top far filter options.
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Commas will continue to work but Google is specifically recommending you use dots over commas.
Between October 18th and October 28th, Google Search had a bug with top stories and other search features.
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This was a reporting issue only and did not impact the Google search results.
Google has confirmed this Perspectives box is a test but would not tell us more on how this works.
Learn the specific steps I took to earn my knowledge panel entry and get established in Google’s Knowledge Graph.
This is a feature many search marketers use for keyword research, and searchers use it for query expansion.
This is a feature many SEOs and SEMs use for keyword research, and searchers use it for query expansion.