xAI, the AI arm of X Corp, has previewed the next stage of its Grok AI model, with the upcoming Grok 1.5 able to incorporate multimodal inputs within its queries. That means that you’ll soon be able to pose questions like this: I mean, given Tesla’s access to vehicle inputs, you’d expect that xAI would […]
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said on Twitter that Google probably shouldn’t trigger a Search Generative Experience answer for navigational queries. You can always manually trigger the SGE response, but by default, it probably shouldn’t be generated. Danny Sullivan wrote, “I would expect SGE to only appear if we think it’s helpful, and navigation queries, […]
Google seems to be testing showing a date picker and occupancy selector for searches related to hotel queries. I have not been able to replicate this, I have tried over the past few weeks without luck. But Saad AK spotted this and posted about it on Twitter – here is a screenshot from his videocast: […]
Twitter has launched a new ad option that will enable advertisers to place Promoted Tweets within specific search resultsenabling more specific targeting based on user intent. Millions of people on Twitter search for what’s happening every day. Now advertisers can bid to insert Promoted Tweets solely among specific search results, reaching people with high real-time […]
Google probably did yet another weekend search ranking algorithm update, I see a pattern here. Google’s Hyung-Jin Kim said EAT is used for all queries, not just YMYL. Google documented its notable search updates, they now call systems, even some of the retired ones. Google has a new spam policy for those who circumvent other […]
Google seems to be testing another refinement feature named “explore more.” This is in addition to the product gridsand popular products and refine by search features. This looks similar to the refine by search feature but takes up less real estate. This was spotted by Punit who posted these screenshots on Twitter: I personally cannot […]
Google is testing a new format for destination queries that not only shows things to do but now showed this story format “Discover” section. Google embeds stories from TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and possibly other platforms for this section. I personally cannot replicate this, but Saas AK shared a video of this in action on Twitter […]
We had more volatility from Google Search on July 10th. Google shows half the number of people also ask boxes in the search results. Google Search Console anonymizes many queries, so it is not very rare. Google Search Console is rolling out the video indexing report slowly. Google Search Console has a bug with desktop […]
A couple of weeks ago, Patrick Stock of Ahrefs released a bombshell report showing that on average about 50% of queries in Search Console are hidden, ie classified as anonymous. I reached out to Google, giving them a chance to respond to this, and the result led to Google updating its help document on anonymous […]