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. Google has said page experience is now part of what makes content helpful……

Google creates a more powerful unit called Google DeepMind to accelerate the progress of AI innovation The post Google Announces Internal Shakeup To Create Google DeepMind appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

In today’s fiercely competitive market, delivering personalized experiences is crucial for customer engagement and loyalty. However, marketers who fail to adapt to the transition from decision-tree to trigger-based engagement strategies risk falling behind and missing out on the opportunity to …

Google Bard’s latest update enhances creative exploration with diverse, distinct draft options. The post Google Bard’s Latest Update Boosts Creativity With More Drafts appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

Google has just announced four new enhancements for the GA4 homepage. New welcome tutorial New banner along the top of the Home page Improvements to the Suggested for you section Dismiss suggestions, insights, and recommendations What’s new. You can read …

Google introduces GoogleOther, a new web crawler, to optimize operations, streamline R&D tasks, and reduce strain on Googlebot. The post Google Introduces New Crawler To Optimize Googlebot’s Performance appeared first on Search Engine Journal.…

I find myself going back to traditional search over asking AI-based search for answers, and I was curious if I am alone or not. So I created a number of polls on Twitter asking if search marketers are using AI-search …

Google has launched GoogleOther, a new web crawler. GoogleOther will be used internally by various Google teams to crawl the public web, said Google’s Gary Illyes on LinkedIn. It respects the same directives and protocols of the main Googlebot crawler …

Was your website or content used to help train AI systems as part of Google’s C4 dataset? A new search tool from the Washington Post lets you find out. Why we care. The dataset includes the types of websites and …

Currently holding strong at just under a 65% market share, WordPress has been the world’s top CMS platform for many years. From novice and experienced bloggers and small businesses to the largest ecommerce and news websites, WordPress has been a …

Google is set to integrate generative artificial intelligence into its advertising business in the coming months, joining other major tech companies in adopting the technology. Based on an internal presentation for advertisers obtained by the Financial Times, the Alphabet-owned …

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Google has added a new crawler to its list of Google Crawlers and user agents, this one is named GoogleOther. It is described as a “generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content …

Google Bard is rolling out an update to make the draft responses more distinct from each other, while Bing Chat has rolled out cleaner and nicer formatted math formulas.…

Google has launched some goodies for news publishers, including a new Reader Revenue Manager within the Google Publisher Center and a Subscribed content report in Google Search Console.…

In the coming months, Google will deprecate the page experience report within Google Search Console, the mobile usability report, and the mobile-friendly testing tool. The core web vitals and HTTPs report will remain in Google Search Console.…

Yesterday, Google announced it made some changes to its guidance around what makes content considered helpful, including adding in good page experience to the equation. Google also made some other changes to this document, which I will detail below.…