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

Google Search is testing a new design and user interface for the search tools menu. Instead of it showing below the search bar, it now shows right under the tools button, with a new interface.…

Google continues its testing of labels and tags in the search results, including trending labels, by showing variations of “trending with” and “popular with” labels and tags added to search result snippets.…

In October, Microsoft announced it was testing adding Copilot features to Bing Webmaster Tools. This is not showing Copilot data in the performance reports, but rather using Copilot to ask questions about your data and website in Bing Webmaster Tools. …

Google has dropped Google Analytics data from its Google Search Console Insights tool and reporting. Google posted this notice on social saying, “we’re focusing on data from Search Console, no longer including metrics from Google Analytics.”…

Google’s John Mueller was asked about over-optimization and if that can cause issues for ranking in Google Search. John replied saying, “Sometimes “over optimization” does drift towards “SEO-spam”.”…

Google has updated its crawler help documentation to add a new section for HTTP caching, which explains how Google’s crawlers handle cache control headers. Google also posted a blog post begging us to let Google cache our pages.…

Google Search is once again having indexing issues where new content is not showing in the index for all sites. Google wrote this is about a “delayed indexing in Google Search” that is “affecting a small number of sites.”…