Google Reduces Local Pack Results In Web Search?

Google seems to be showing fewer and fewer local packs for various queries in the Google Search results interface. For the past few days or so, local SEOs have been noticing this trend and it is concerning them and their clients.

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Why Google Needs To Encourage Clicks To Publishers In The Search Generative Experience - It's About Ads & Revenues

There is a lot of concern and worry around the new Google Search Generative Experience and how that might impact traffic to content creators, publishers, site owners, and the web as a whole. I get that new things are scary, but I think the concern may be overblown.

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Bing Chat Now With Visual Search Comparisons, Knowledge Cards & More

On Friday afternoon, Microsoft Bing announced its weekly Bing Chat enhancements, including more visual results and layouts, knowledge card images and more features.

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Google +Topic Search Bar Refinements Finally Goes Live On Desktop

After so much testing and several months after going live on mobile search, Google has announced the +topic search bar refinements are now officially live on the desktop search results.

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Microsoft: Dark Mode Coming To Bing Chat

Microsoft will be bringing dark mode to Bing Chat in the future. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, when asked about dark mode for Bing Chat, he said on Twitter, "Coming, man, coming."

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Google NYC Store Gave Away Free Flowers For Pixel 7a Launch

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 12, 2023

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...

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Food Trucks Inside The Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 11, 2023

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.

I posted my thoughts on the all-new Google Search Generative Experience, and it might be worth a read...

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Google's New AI-Generated Image Label & Meta Data Required

Google also is now asking you to self-label your AI-generated images as AI generated with a IPTC photo meta data attribute. This way Google can label images as being AI-generated in the image search results.

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Google About This Image Snippet Feature

Google has launched the "about this image" feature at Google I/O, it is similar to when Google launched the "about this result" two years ago.

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Goodbye FID, Hello INP - Interaction to Next Paint Coming To Google Core Web Vitals

As expected, although it took a lot longer than we thought, Google announced it will be replacing the FID metric with the INP metric for its Core Web Vitals. This won't happen until March 2024, but it will happen.

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Google Stepping Stones

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 10, 2023

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.

Bing Chat AI model improvements will improve Bing's core search algorithm...

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Fake Google Men's Clothing Designer Store

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 9, 2023

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

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Microsoft: Bing Chat Growing Faster Than Servers Can Handle

Microsoft Bing Chat is growing so fast that the team can't add enough GPUs fast enough to keep up with the growth. This leads to some Bing Chat experiences being slow and a bit laggy. But Microsoft is aware and hopes to be able to improve here.

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Bing Search Technology Center In Hyderabad

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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 8, 2023

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.

With Google I/O around the corner...

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Vlog #222: Glenn Gabe on AI Content, E-E-A-T & The Future

In part one with Glenn Gabe, we talk about Bing chat and Google Bard and also the use of AI-generated content...

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Is This What Google Search May Be Launching At I/O?

For the past couple of weeks now, we've been hearing reports of how Google will change Google Search in the wake of AI and changes in searcher behavior. As many of you know, I cover a ton of Google Search user interface changes and I put together a collection of some of those changes we found that I think Google might announce at I/O as the future of Google Search.

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Bing Search "Learn More On" & Microsoft Edge Deal Days

Microsoft Bing is testing a new section named "Learn more on." This section seems to give you search refinements and expanders to find more information related to your original query. Bing is also adding a box named "Microsoft Edge Deal Days" to some search results.

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Google: hreflang x-default Can Help Feed URLs To Google It Might Not Otherwise See

Gary Illyes from Google posted on the Google Search blog about some of the more "hidden" advantages of using hreflang x-default value. As Gary noted on LinkedIn, "incidentally, it can also help with feeding Googlebot URLs that the poor thing otherwise might not see."

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Google Search Snippet With Visual Explore Features

We have seen the Google Explore feature many times, but here is a similar explore feature but as a sub-feature of a single search result snippet. Google is testing showing a scrollable snippet that is more visual and interactive.

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Coconut Chia Pudding At Google

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