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Reddit's Google Search visibility has exploded in recent months. Now the companies have struck a content licensing deal. Coincidence?
If 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.
This new vacation rental structured data comes with new Search Console and Rich Results reports.
This may be the first and only patent Google has related to SGE.
Plus, perspectives is coming to desktop, content creators get more visibility and more.
The notes feature is a labs experiment that you can turn on or off.
SGE now in more countries, more languages with more features.
There is a setting to turn this real-time response off.
Google said the links in SGE AI answers are from high-quality sites.
This allows you to use different syntaxes that can now connect together.
You may have noticed a reduction in clicks from Google Search related to this change.
With this new structured data, Gogole launched a new rich results report and testing tool support for the markup.
Plus Google SGE can provide written drafts.
This "lite" version as some are calling it fits better with the current traditional search results.
This will be released in the "coming months" on iOS and Android, Google said.
Google will soon add the About this result feature for individual links that are included in SGE responses.
After Google released shared conversations in Bard, Google Search began crawling and indexing those public chats.
Plus, Bard PaLM 2 model is better, expanded more features and new Bard extensions.
This change comes one month after Google announced HowTo would no longer appear on mobile devices and just for desktop users.
Sundar Pichai compares the shift to SGE to the shift from desktop to mobile – and believes it won't blow up Google's current business model.
Artificial Intelligence Optimization (AIO)
Launching first in the U.S., Google said it will keep testing how it presents results and prioritize driving traffic to websites.
Feature would let users leave comments about webpages. It is expected to appear as a new Google Labs experiment.
This test began earlier this month and it seems Google has now paused showing links in these AI-generated answer results.
Paywalled content will not work with the new SGE while browsing feature. Google SGE also added definitions and color coding syntax.
Google also confirmed adding links to the AI-generated answers and continues to work to improve speed.
Google's SGE's AI-generated answers have failed to cite sources. This test aims to correct that. Here's what it looks like.
The new features include pin and rename conversations, export code to more places, share answers, use images for prompts, listen to answers and adjust responses.
Google has updated the Search Generative Experience to use Business Profile data for its AI-snapshots.
This weekend, Google has begun rolling out the new perspectives feature to searchers.
Plus, Google said they made a number of "quality updates to SGE.
Bard is now better at mathematical tasks, coding questions and string manipulation.
To enable this, manage your preferences in location settings.
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.