Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5, 2024

We saw Google test follow up questions below the AI Mode responses back in July. Now Google is testing follow up search suggestions, not necessarily in question format, at the bottom of some AI Mode results.

Google has documented a new user agent, a user-triggered fetcher, named Google-Pinpoint. “The Google-Pinpoint fetcher requests individual URLs that Pinpoint users specified as sources for their personal collections of documents,” Google posted in its updated documentation.

On July 1, 2024, Reddit updated its robots.txt file to prohibit most search engine and AI crawlers from accessing its content – including blocking Microsoft Bing. Reddit did not block Google Search, which we covered here a few weeks ago.