Google announced last night that it is looking to develop a complementary protocol to the 30-year-old robots.txt protocol. This is because of all the new generative AI technologies Google and other companies are releasing.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/aHUIeVb
Bing Tests Search Result Listing Branded Side Labels
Bing is now testing showing branded side labels next to each search result listing. We saw earlier more basic side labels and before that branded side bars for some search queries. I am also seeing favicons on the side of the snippets. Bing is always very busy testing these things.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/QLVAqJz
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/QLVAqJz
Google Ireland Dance Class On International Music Day
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/7Jjd6eY
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/ukJdlUq
Google: It Doesn't Matter If You Use Blog Folders For URLs & We're Not Wrong
Google's John Mueller said it doesn't matter either way if you put your blog posts on a subfolder of /blog or just on the root directory of the site, without the /blog.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/UBIzgoQ
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/UBIzgoQ
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 5 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/9En6kic
Bing Chat To Allow You Not To Search The Web (No-Search)
Bing Chat will be adding a feature to tell it not to search the web for an answer. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing Search at Microsoft, said on Twitter, "#nosearch is coming" when asked if Bing Chat can exclude web search results from the answers.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/XEQnbBj
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/XEQnbBj
Google's John Mueller: No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance
Google's John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, "No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest."
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/bcH6r37
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/bcH6r37
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/UvkoRNS
Google Search Generative Experience Shows Local Store Inventory
Did you know that the new Google Search Generative Experience that launched to us a month ago shows nearby stores that have products in stock directly in the generative AI answer. This might not be new, but based on my early tests, I don't believe I've seen Google SGE show "Stores," and I definitely didn't cover that they did.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/K9WDoVy
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/K9WDoVy
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 30 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/MIp28v7
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Volatility Pinging Google Sitemaps Bing Index Coverage AI Search Local & PPC
This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would drop the Ping endpoints for Google Sitemaps later this year. Some are seeing the new index...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/rp1qc5e
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/rp1qc5e
Bing Chat Share Feature Returning On July 4th
In May, Bing added a share feature to Bing Chat and then had to abruptly remove the feature in early June. Bing's Mikhail Parakhin said that the feature should start to slowly roll back out, under a new system, starting on July 4th.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/j5XAgRa
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/j5XAgRa
Google Ads New Brand Restrictions For Search & Brand Exclusions For Performance Max
Google Ads announced that new brand settings are rolling out for Search and Performance Max campaigns. Specifically, brand restrictions for broad match in Search campaigns and brand exclusions in Performance Max campaigns are rolling out.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/NAIk4sW
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/NAIk4sW
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 29 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.
Yep, we are seeing yet another heated Google search ranking algorithm update that has come...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/cULdjaZ
Google Search Product Pricing Graph Over 3-Months
Google is testing showing the price fluctuations of a product in a graph over a three-month period in the search results. We saw product pricing sliders but this is on a graph to show pricing changes over that time period.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/KwbfQ21
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/KwbfQ21
Google Rich Testing Tools Drop Down Selector Now Shows URL Inspection Tool
Google has updated the Google Rich Results test to spell out that the test is coming from the Google URL Inspection tool. This update probably happened when added the new Google-InspectionTool useragent to the crawler list back in May.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/F8bfmJZ
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/F8bfmJZ
Microsoft: Bing Chat Slow Rollouts Are Random To Reduce Bias
Bing, and other software companies, like Google, tend to roll out new features slowly. So they might roll out a new feature first to 1% of users, then 10%, then 50% and then eventually 100% of users. This rollout is done randomly to reduce bias, Microsoft Bing's Mikhail Parakhin said on Twitter.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/AUmCB2d
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/AUmCB2d
Bing Search Answer Panel Adds Interactive Reaction Emojis
Bing Search lets searchers interact with some of the right bar answer panels using emojis. If you search for [barack obama] and look at the side bar, you will see the option to react to some of the answers given using emojis.
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/lSugrw9
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/lSugrw9
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 28 2023
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
from Search Engine Roundtable https://ift.tt/PIzjilZ
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)