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 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, …

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 …

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 …

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.

We are finally seeing much larger movement from the Google November 2024 core …

Last week we covered how Google’s John Mueller cautioned about using Google Trends for content ideas. Google’s John Mueller also agreed that this can be an issue for Google Search’s people also ask (PAA) feature. When Glenn Gabe noted PAA …

Some are seeing Microsoft placing ads in the Bing Search results mixed in between the organic results. Google has been testing this for a while now, calling it dynamic ad placement to try to make it sound like a good …

Google Search has been placing trending labels in the search results for a while now. But there is a new variation of that, showing a “Trending this week” label in a gray, green and purple format. I don’t think I’ve …

On Friday, Google began to show these massive pop up, overlay ads, on top of the Google Search results, for when you search for your business and are logged into your Google Business Profile account. The ad takes up a …

Google has been telling us for many months that they will be rolling out ads for AI Overviews. Last month, Google said they will soon show in the US mobile search results – well, I think we’ve seen one of …

Google Analytics may not have fully brought in your analytics data for Wednesday, November 13th, within the GA4 interface. Over the past few days, I’ve seen complaints from site owners and marketers about GA4 missing data from that day.…

The Google November 2024 core update started rolling out Monday, November 11, at 3:30 pm ET and we saw some movement begin around Wednesday/Thursday but it was not that widespread. Now, over the weekend, this core update seems to be …

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

Google launched the November 2024 core update earlier this week, and we are now starting to see movement and ranking shifts because of it. Google AI Overviews is testing using real hyperlinks, instead of paperclips. Google cautioned……

Google Maps will now show you if you can find products nearby, like you’d see in directly in Google Search and Google Shopping. This “Products nearby” carousel now shows up directly in the Google Maps app, the company announced.…

Google has released a native app for Google Gemini for iPhone devices. This comes after Google added Gemini to the Google app on iOS, created a native Gemini app for Android and also had it available on the web.…

Google sent emails to some Google Merchant Center advertisers and free users about a new feature in Chrome where the Google web browser will showcase your promotions directly in the browser. It will pop up promotion codes during the holiday …