Category: SE Roundtable

In Google Business Profiles, businesses can go in and mark their business as “Permanently closed.” But it seems that option went missing a few days ago. I no longer see it as an option, along with the option to select …

Google is placing links, normal looking links, within the AI Overviews that take you into AI Mode instead of taking you to web pages and web sites. These links appear at the bottom of the AI Overview and prompt follow-up …

Google added a new section to the Google Store ratings: An overview for Merchants within Google Merchant Center detailing the requirements for Google Store ratings. This was added a week or so ago, and it says you need at least …

It looks like spammers are taking advantage of Gemini Notebook, public NotebookLM, pages to spam Google with all sorts of content. This includes pages on sex toys, porn, peptides, coupon codes and more.…

Google Search has this beta opt-in feature named Web Guide, it is like a mix of its AI search results interface and web search interface – in one. That being said, there seems to be a bug where, when you …

This is a programming note: I will be 100% offline from Sunday night (September 20th) through Monday night (September 21st) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories tomorrow, Monday, Yom Kippur; nothing will be posted.…

The crawl stats report is missing a day of data again, this time, the missing data is from September 15th (it might be a day later for some of you on different time zones). That being said, this has happened …

Google is testing a new feature in Google Discover named “Dive deeper.” When you click on it, it does not take you to a publisher’s article, instead, it takes you to an AI-generated short topic overview with links to some …

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

Google has posted a new help document in the Google Ads help area named About commerce audience sharing through Google Ads. It explains that “Commerce audience sharing allows commerce partners, such as retailers or marketplaces, to share first-party data segments …

Google is now testing adding the AI Mode button to the search bar when you are inside the search results page. Google has the AI Mode button almost everywhere else, but now we are seeing it added to the search …

Microsoft Bing is also asking some searchers to verify they are human before showing them search results. Google is doing this a lot, in various forms, and now Bing was spotted doing this.…

Google may be more successful in blocking AI scrapers, search scrapers and third-party tracking tools since around September 13th or so. This coincides with the September 4th and September 12th reversals we reported, and it also aligns with the methods …

This week we covered the first week or so of Google’s unusual ranking volatility only to see things spike up in a big way this week as well – something is up. Google’s remedies are out for its ad tech …

Microsoft is testing adding new labels to the Bing Search product carousels. Labels include Top Picks, Price Drop, Sale and likely other labels on the Bing Search product listings, within the carousels.…

Earlier this month, we learned a judge ruled that Google won’t be broken up over its monopoly ruling in its ad tech case. And now we have the full memo with the judge’s proposed remedies, including Google making behavioral changes.…

Google is turning the local knowledge panels, your Google Business Profile, into an AI Overview listing. At the top of the local listing it says “AI Overview” and then there is a “Show more” button to expand, which brings you …