Microsoft Bing is testing highlighting portions of the AI chat answer in blue, the one embedded in the Bing Search results. Bing Search started to test embedding its Bing Chat AI answers into the Bing search results two months ago and now Bing is testing highlighting part of the answer in blue. This was spotted […]
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 […]
Instagram’s testing out a new option that will help brands discover relevant UGC in the app that they can then share as examples to better promote their products in-stream. As you can see in this example, shared by Yolande Haynes on LinkedInInstagram is now prompting some shop managers to ‘Add user-generated content’ to their product […]
Facebook continues to explore ways to get more people posting to Stories, this time via a new, automated Stories generation process that uses image recognition AI to create new Stories from your shared content. As you can see in this example, posted by Jackie Pitkow (and shared by Matt Navarre), some users are now being […]
Google is testing displaying a business profile listing in an overlay interface within the web search results instead of taking you into the Google Maps interface. So when you click on a business listing in the local pack, instead of taking it into Google Maps to view more details on that business, Google is testing […]
Google Search is testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label for products and images that you can rotate within the search results. I guess either 3D or 360 labels would work for this, and I guess Google is testing the alternative. Here is a GIF of this, which was captured by Saad AK […]
Google is testing a few interfaces for the Google Posts and updates in the local interfaces. One is to overlay the Google updates in the images for the business listing and the other is to show a “more posts” button in the Google Posts overlay in Google Search. Khushal Bherwani noticed the Google updates/posts text […]
Microsoft Bing is testing placing a site’s favicon on the right side of the search result title’s snippet. We are accustomed to seeing it on the left for Google search results, we even saw Bing testing it on the left on mouse cursor hover overbut here it is being tested on the right. Shameem Adhikarath […]
Microsoft Bing is testing not showing the citations or links to publishers by default for some results in the Edge Sidebar. So instead of showing the links to the publishers, Bing is showing “click to view,” and when you click it, then Bing will show you those citations or links. This was spotted and covered […]
Twitter’s looking to give users a broader set of emoji reactions for their DMswhile also, potentially, enabling personalization of your quick reactions display in the app. As you can see in these mock-ups, shared by Twitter designer Andrea ConwayTwitter’s testing a new search option within the reaction pop-up in DMs which would enable you to […]