Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter“#nosearch is coming” when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers. So in the future, you should be able to tell […]
On Monday, I reported that Google stopped crawling and indexing Twitter content after Twitter made it so that unregistered (signed-out) users were not able to see tweets. Well, Twitter made a change in the past 24 hours or so that now Google and unregistered users can see the tweet but there is a modal that […]
This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would drop the Ping endpoints for Google Sitemaps later this year. Some are seeing the new index coverage report in Bing Webmaster Tools. Google said word count is not an […]
Do you know how to narrow your Google Search down to a specific website or location, or how to search for certain file types across the web? If you know the right operators, you can use Google in a range of different ways, which can make it much easier to find the best matches, while […]
In part one we learned about Amy Toman and her love for small business. We dug more into that love in part two and also spoke about helping small businesses with local optimization, even with low budgets. Plus, we spoke about the Google Product Experts community. Most local SEOs care deeply about small businesses, she […]
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 […]
So it’s been well over a week of incredible volatility within the Google search results. Pages have been bouncing all over the place, rankings are jumping and then last night and today we are seeing even hotter temperatures from the Google tracking tools and more chatter from within the SEO industry. Everyone is asking where […]
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, […]
On June 14th we reported on a Google search ranking algorithm update and since then the Google search results have not stopped with its larger than normal volatility. It is like they put the pot of water on the stove and never turned it off, at least not for the past several days now. Since […]