Google’s Sundar Pichai Envisions A Future With Bard At Your Side via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Microsoft Bing added (not sure how new this is) a feature named “explore this page” to its search results. When you click on the arrow to explore the page, an overlay box comes up in the search results showing you the topics you can find on that page.

Google has shut down Duplex on the Web and has retired its web crawler, DuplexWeb-Google. Google posted a notice of this in this help document saying “Duplex on the Web is deprecated, and will no longer be supported as of December, 2022. Any automation features enabled by Duplex on the Web will no longer be supported after this date.” Duplex on the web. Google called this feature “Duplex on the web,” and it allowed users to use the Google Assistant for new reservations and other purchase categories. […]

We may have seen a Google local search ranking update on Tuesday, June 8th. The BrightLocal tracking tool showed significant changes and volatility on June 8th, with a bit of heat also on June 6th and June 9th.