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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.

If you want your pages to show in Google’s AI Mode……

Google may extend the Google Search box so you can see more of your longer query. As you know, people are doing longer searches these days, and sometimes, you can’t see the full query when you type it. Instead, you …

This week, we covered more Google Search ranking volatility around May 29th. Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai, said web publishing is not dead and had a great interview with The Verge. Most SEOs are scared of AI Mode in Google……

Google has once again confirmed that in order for Google to show your content as a citation or link in AI Mode, it generally needs to be crawled and then indexed by Google. This is the same thing for a …

Some advertisers are seeing the newly announced and much anticipated channel reporting for Performance Max campaigns within the Google Ads advertiser console in the wild. This was announced about a month ago, after hearing leaks of it weeks prior and …

Gary Illyes from Google described how search engine crawlers have changed over the years. This came up in the latest Search Off the Record podcast with Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes from Google.…

Google seems to be renaming Search Max to AI Max within the Google Ads interface. The new wording for this says, “Al Max for search campaigns.” Then there is a toggle to turn on “Optimise your campaign with Al Max” …

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

Microsoft is testing using alternative names and titles for the related searches section within the Bing Search results. I was able to trigger four alternatives to the normal related searches header.…

Google is testing another search results snippet hover effect. This one will color the background a light gray shadow like color. We’ve seen variations of this before (see articles below).…

Google is updating its Unapproved Substances section of the Healthcare and Medicines policy in June to allow the promotion and serving ads for Melatonin. This is currently allowed in the U.S. and Canada, but will now be allowed beyond.…

Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed on X that ads can show above/below the AI Overviews or within the AI Overviews but not in both positions at the same time. She wrote, “Your ad could trigger to show either above/below …

For the past several months, we’ve been seeing signs that the Google Maps and local questions and answers feature is being phased out. Well, it seems like it is not going away but rather changed when it does and does …

Google Search ranking and results have experienced increased volatility over the past 24 hours or so – the search results are heating up. I am noticing an uptick in SEO chatter within the industry and also some of the tools …