Google simplifies Search Console by removing Page Experience report while retaining Core Web Vitals and HTTPS monitoring tools. Google removed the Page Experience report from Search Console. Core Web Vitals and HTTPS reports will continue to function separately. The change aims to reduce clutter while maintaining all essential metrics. Source link
Google has quietly introduced a new AI Search experiment called Learn About, which summarizes content and offers navigational menus to explore related subtopics. This new way of exploring content uses drill-down navigational menus called Interactive Lists and if the user scrolls down far enough they will eventually find links to human created content. This new … Read more
Microsoft has provided guidance on how to optimize content for AI-powered search engines. This advice is timely now that OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Search, which uses Bing’s search index. Understanding user intent is everything in this new era of search, Microsoft says: “In the past, digital marketing strategies often relied heavily on demographic data and … Read more
Google has updated Maps to include product-specific search capabilities, just in time for the holiday shopping season. This feature allows consumers to search for specific items and find nearby stores with available inventory. Key Features The update lets you search for products directly within Google Maps and find real-time inventory availability at nearby stores. Shoppers … Read more
In nearly 20 years in search marketing, something I continue to see and debate about is shared budgets. When I ask the advertiser why, I always get a similar answer: “We have a set limited budget, and this is the best way for us to fund everything.” Or, the one that truly pains me: “The … Read more
A recent investigation finds that Google’s Featured Snippets may display conflicting information from the same source material, depending on how users phrase their search queries. This raises concerns about the search engine’s ability to interpret content accurately. Sarah Presch, director at Dragon Metrics, discovered that Google’s Featured Snippets pull opposing statements from the same articles … Read more
ChatGPT Search (CGS) is a landmark launch in the shift from traditional to AI Search. Now, OpenAI competes with Google (Search) heads-on. Note the subtle elbow hit between the lines in the announcement: Getting useful answers on the web can take a lot of effort. It often requires multiple searches and digging through links to … Read more
As the availability of ChatGPT Search expands, understanding its indexing mechanics will be vital for digital visibility. While Bing’s index plays a key role, OpenAI’s system surfaces content using its own crawlers and attribution methods. Here is a breakdown of the technical requirements for ensuring your website is indexed correctly. Technical Framework ChatGPT Search combines … Read more
CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI executives held a Reddit AMA to answer questions, including those about ChatGPT Search, providing an inside look at how it works. Their answers offer insights into what SEO may look like in the immediate future. The people from OpenAI answering the questions: Sam Altman, CEO Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer … Read more
The role of AI in SEO has kept rapidly evolving over the past few months. Google formally launched AI Overviews in May, and Bing launched its generative search pilot in July, with a full launch at the start of October. On July 25, OpenAI announced a SearchGPT prototype. Then, on October 31, it launched ChatGPT … Read more
OpenAI is bringing real-time web search capabilities to ChatGPT, enhancing the functionality of the AI chatbot. This new feature, announced today, allows ChatGPT to provide up-to-date information with proper source attribution while keeping its conversational interface. Key Updates ChatGPT can now deliver real-time data, including news, sports scores, stock prices, and weather updates. Search results … Read more
Meta is reportedly developing a search engine index for its AI chatbot to reduce reliance on Google for AI-generated summaries of current events. Meta AI appears to be evolving to the next stage of becoming a fully independent AI search engine. Meta-ExternalAgent Meta has been crawling the Internet since at least this past summer from … Read more
Alphabet Inc. reported its third-quarter earnings, with revenues reaching $88.3 billion, a 15% increase from last year. The Google parent company’s operating margin expanded to 32% from 27.8% year-over-year, while net income rose 34% to $26.3 billion. During the earnings call, the company highlighted the growing role of AI across its products and services. Google … Read more
While everyone is looking at AI Overviews, Google launched a personalized shopping experience to build a foothold in the vertical that’s the least sensitive to LLM disruption. AI could revive personalization and bring it to other areas of Google as well. The new SERP layout shakes up ecommerce SEO by making Google the new category … Read more
Google expands AI-powered search summaries globally, now reaching over 100 countries with support for six different languages. Google’s AI Overviews is expanding from US-only to over 100 countries, reaching 1 billion monthly users. The feature now supports six languages and includes new ways to display website links. Google has started showing ads in AI Overviews … Read more
Marketers work with search data every day, but we’re greatly underutilizing its potential. Let me explain. Search data can tell us all kinds of things about markets, audiences, behavior, and preferences. It’s a source of intelligence that informs smarter, better, more timely business decisions beyond SEO. In this article, I’ll introduce you to a different … Read more
Google has announced an expansion of its Travel Feeds feature for Search Ads. This update allows hotel advertisers to directly include more detailed information from their feeds in search results. A Google support page reads: “When you link your Hotel Center to Google Ads, Google will automatically enrich existing Search ad formats with prices, images, … Read more
Google has announced the retirement of the sitelinks search box feature. This change, set to take effect on November 21, marks the end of a tool that has been part of Google Search for over a decade. We’re saying bye to the sitelinks search box in Google Search results starting Nov 21, 2024, as usage … Read more
