Bing Search now lets you select text within the search results page and search for that selected text. I believe Bing was testing this for a while, and so did Google Search, but now it seems to be live. This is what I see when I do a search and then select text, it gives […]
This week we saw the continues heated and incredibly volatile Google search results continue throughout the whole week, and then it exploded this morning. Google’s Gary Illyes said we should avoid using LLMs and AI for diagnosing SEO issues. Gary also spoke about AI and Google at a Google Central Live event in Tokyo. Google […]
Google mobile search results can show the Google Business Profile listing in one section and the reviews later down in another section. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this on and off over the past year or so, but I can’t find my coverage of it. So Melanie Funderburk posted a video of this in action, […]
Google’s all-new search engine, the Search Generative Experiencewhich began to roll out for some, is really not more personalized than what you get from Google’s traditional search results. Google is currently not offering a more personalized search result set or AI generative answer based on who you are. Of course, when it comes to localizations […]
Google has added back the edit code button to the Rich Results Test tool. Ryan Levering from Google posted this news on mastodon saying, “Excited for this new button in Rich Results Test that makes it easier to test fixes to live code.” ” I know a lot of people missed the Structured Data Testing […]
Google has added the specific languages the Google Search translated search results feature works for to its support documentation. Specifically, Google added a “feature availability” section and moved some content around on the page. It says, “Currently, Google may translate results into the following languages: Bengali, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Portuguese, […]
A couple of months ago we reported that Microsoft may share revenues with publishers that help it create content for Bing Chat. It was under the Microsoft Start Partner program. Well, for the first time, I am seeing a Microsoft Start partner label in the Bing Chat results. This was posted on Twitter and Mikhail […]
Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer local packs for various queries in the Google Search results interface. For the past few days or so, local SEOs have been noticing this trend and it is concerning them and their clients. Joy Hawkins posted about this in the Local Search Forums saying, “I’ve been tracking […]
Google is testing a new version of the “more” results button to make it look more basic and simple. Instead of the larger more results button, Google is testing a simple link. Saad AK captured this and posted videos of it in action on Twitter. For example, the “more videos” button in the test has […]
Google seems to be testing a grid-like format for local results in the mobile web search results. We see these grid formats primarily for product and shopping search results, but I don’t think I’ve seen this for local search listings. This was spotted by Brandon on Twitter who posted a video cast of this in […]