Daily Search Forum Recap: January 18, 2022

Last September, in 2020, we reported that Google was testing the people also search for in the auto-complete search suggestions drop down. Well, those tests have not stopped. Here are more examples from Brodie Clark from the past week or so.

Brave Search has introduced Summarizer, a new AI-powered feature with similarities to Google’s featured snippets and Perspectives SERP features. It’s also like what BingGPT is doing, generating answers to questions in near real-time. Summarizer provides concise answers (generally two or three sentences), with one or multiple citations, to user search queries. Brave’s Summarizer answers are based on search results found on the web. This is a key point Brave called out in their announcement: “Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spout unsubstantiated […]

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…