Google AI Mode Gains Search With Image Multimodal Capabilities With Lens
Google announced that AI Mode now lets you search by uploading a photo or image from your device. Before the new AI Mode only allowed you to search with text, but now, like you can with other Google Search features, you can use multimodal capabilities…
Google Things To Know Also Linking Back To More Search Results
Google Search is not just having its AI Overviews link back to itself but also search features like Things To Know. This is all while Google touts how it is seeing impressive growth in search results (artificially inflated?) and while supposedly prior…
Google Maps Blocked 240 Million Fake Reviews, 70 Million Edits, 12 Million Fake Listings In 2024
Google released its annual metrics on how well it did with fighting spam on Google Maps. In short, Google said it blocked or removed more than 240 million policy-violating reviews, blocked or removed more than 70 million policy-violating edits, removed…
Google Ads Adds Clarifications To Its Suspension Policies
Google has updated its Google Ads policies around suspensions yesterday. While no changes have been made to enforcement of these policies, Google has really updated a lot of the content, and examples provided in these policies.
Google Search With More AI Overviews
Pretty much every data provider that tracks AI Overviews in Google Search are showing that Google is showing AI Overviews more often today than they were a month ago. I am sure this is no surprise to many of you, I mean, we see them so often now.
Google Refreshes Its Merchant Opportunities Report
Google announced it has refreshed its Shopping tab listings report which it initially launched in November 2022 and renamed it to the Merchant opportunities report. The refreshed report now includes details about payments methods and store ratings, Goo…
How to Close the Gap Between SEO Recommendation and Execution
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Using AI to generate great SEO titles and meta descriptions
You need compelling titles and meta descriptions to attract visitors from search results and encourage users to click. Manually writing these elements for every page can be quite challenging. Generative AI can streamline this process by automating it. However, you should check the AI-generated suggestions critically. This post will show various methods for generating effective […]
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Apple Intelligence Raters Guidelines Leaked
On Friday afternoon, Danny Goodwin covered a 170 or so page PDF that Search Engine Land received from an anonymous tip named “Preference Ranking Guidelines.” It looks to me similar to the Google Quality Raters guidelines that continuously leaked until …
Google Search Video Ads
Google can show search ads with video formats. I mean, Google has been doing this for a while now, but they are kind of rare to see. This latest one is a video ad from Adidas.
Copilot Search in Bing Now Officially Live
After initially going live on Wednesday morning, Microsoft did not officially announce the launch of Copilot Search in Bing until late Friday afternoon. Microsoft said, “Copilot Search seamlessly blends the best of traditional and generative search tog…
Google Search Relevant Topics
Google has a new search refinement or expansion feature they are titling “Relevant topics.” This reminds me of People also ask, Things to do, and the other ways Google tries to get you to search more after conducting your first search.
Google: Hreflang Tags With 301 Redirects Are Probably Okay
Google’s John Mueller said if you have hreflang tags that point to a 301 redirect, it is probably okay. But you probably also want to automate the process of setting up those hreflang tags so that there is no redirect.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Post Core Volatility, Brand Ranking, Reddit AI Translations & Google Ads Double Serving
This week, we covered some more Google Search ranking volatility, post-core update. I also posted some polls on the Google March 2025 core update. Google said they do not have a brand ranking system. Google is ranking AI-translated Reddit results…
Google Responds To Comprehensive PMax Report
Mike Ryan put together the single most comprehensive third-party report on Google Ads Performance Max campaigns. It is free, super detailed, easy to read and chock-full of useful information. And guess what, Google’s Ginny Marvin responded to some of …
Bing Tests Ad Labels Not In Blue
Earlier this month we reported that Bing was testing ad labels in blue colors. Well, now I am seeing examples of those ads labels without the blue, but rather normal black text and icons on white backgrounds.
Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings
Google sent out a notification that it will automatically opt you into using content from your email campaigns to help Google know what to show in Google Search, Shopping, and Maps. It will look for content around new arrivals, sales or ongoing promot…
Bing Tests Pill Favicon Design & Sitename Changes
Bing is testing a pill-shaped favicon design, like Google did a lot last year, and showing both the site name and the favicon in the pill design.
Bing Related Image Search Box
Microsoft seems to be testing a new related image search box in the main web search results in Bing Search. I personally cannot replicate this, which I take as a sign that this is a test.
Daily Search Forum Recap: April 3, 2025
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
We are seeing more Google Search ranking volatility kick off yesterday…