Gary Illyes from Google posted information on how Google Search handles the 103 early hints HTTP server status response. He said, “Googlebot will ignore the 103 and wait for the subsequent response.” This was posted on LinkedIn and wrote, “HTTP 103 should be handled gracefully by Googlebot. If the response from the server is formatted […]
Google announced it is rolling out a feature to try on clothing and products on models virtually. This virtual try-on uses generative AI to show you clothes on a wide selection of real models, Google said. Google is also releasing new filters for apparel results. The virtual try-on is pretty cool, Google said its AI […]
Google announced it upgraded the Google Search Generative Experience experiment to now also bring in reviews and photos from not just the web but also from Google Business Profiles. This makes Google SGE better at helping you plan trips, travel, restaurants and so on. Google wrote that they have “added new capabilities to SGE for […]
Microsoft is testing image recognition and visual search features in Bing Chat. This is where you can upload an image and ask Bing Chat questions around that image. Bing has this for Bing Image search, it is named visual search. Right now, Bing’s CEO Mikhail Parakhin said it is being tested on 5% of all […]
I am seeing some early signs of another Google search ranking algorithm updateas the Google search results seem more volatile than normal and there has been an increase in SEO chatter. The chatter is a bit off, meaning I am not seeing a huge amount of chatter relative to what many of the Google tracking […]
Google has released its first set of quality updates to the new Google Search Generative Experience that started to roll out a few weeks ago. The most noticeable update is that it is much faster, in fact, twice as fast, in responding with an AI-generated snapshot/answer. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said on Twitter“we’ve made […]
For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we had yet another unconfirmed Google search ranking update in the middle of the week. The Google Search Generative Experience AI snapshot answers are now twice as fast. Most SEOs seem unimpressed by the new Google Search Generative Experience. Google News Showcase is coming to the […]
Google’s Gary Illyes said in an SEO office hours video that you may want to consider consolidating pages that end up in a host group in the Google search results. Host groups are when Google shows two results from the same domain, one indented under the other. Gary said, “It’s a telltale that you have […]
Microsoft Bing Search is testing showing fewer options in the search bar menu below the search box. We saw this with Bing Image search before and now we are seeing this with Bing web search. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann on mastodon who wrote, “Bing is testing a massively reduced top navigation. Most navigation […]
Bing seems to be testing placing labels that describe the search result listing, on the left side bar of the search result listing. It seems the label will help define what the search result listing is about, maybe listing out some of its entities. Frank Sandtmann spotted this and posted this screenshot on mastodon (click […]