Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Google announced new shopping features through Google Lens to help with in-store shopping and local shopping. Google said, “Google Lens can quickly show you product insights tailored to the store you’re in. Just snap a photo to find product information, …

Google has updated its site reputation abuse policy to expand what is included in abuse. It now includes third-party content that has first-party involvement or content oversight. Google also dropped a mention of the starkly different content algorithm but made …

Microsoft is testing categorizing the videos within its Bing video search results. Bing’s video search interface can show at the top a featured video for the query, then trending videos related to the query, then short videos, then a related …

Is OpenAI, its ChatGPT service, taking market share from Google? Well, maybe. Rand Fishkin of Sparktoro posted his assumptions based on a mix of data from SimilarWeb and Datos that says ChatGPT’s current market share is 4.33% – that is …

Google has updated its guide to Google Search ranking systems to mention at the top of the page that it uses both page-level and site-wide signals for search rankings. There was a debate on this after the Google creator summit …

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today……

Google may be testing removing the “more results” button from the people also ask results within Google Search. In some searches, on some browsers, I see the “more results” button after expanding a people also ask result, but in others, …

There are new reports that Google is showing more and more YouTube videos in Google Discover. There is also a new study that says YouTube is the most cited source in Google’s AI Overviews. Is Google promoting its own video …

Google Ads has this newish “in store” and “online” tab sponsored ads interface for its search ads, where you can tab between nearby stores and online stores that have what you are searching for. Plus a newish list view of …

Google has begun testing removing EU-based news publishers in Google News, Google Search, and Google Discover for 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain (not France). Google is doing this to provide data …

Over a year and a half ago, Google told us they would be dropping the page experience report from Google Search Console in the “coming months.” Well, it took many “coming months” for it to happen and now the page …