Microsoft seems to have rolled out a new shape for the favicons in its Bing search results. Instead of being circles, now they seem to be square. Khushal Bherwani spotted Bing testing this earlier, and when I tried this on New Year’s Eve, all my browsers only returned the square design for these search result…
Google is now showing a new section in some local panels named “Units available to rent.” This shows homes, condos and other apartments that the company has listed as available to rent out. Dan Buchy notified me of this and posted about it on LinkedIn – you can see it yourself for a search on…
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. Google Search now shows units available to rent in local panels. Google Search has a new explore stocks carousel. Google is testing colored search headers. Google Discover…
As you know, Microsoft released the Copilot App for iOS and Android but it does not support plugins like the Bing App. But don’t worry, Copilot will soon support plugins. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Advertising and Web Services at Microsoft, announced that plugin support will be added to the Copilot mobile apps. Here is…
Google Search can show a browse by category for a specific site when you search for that brand. For example, when you search for [eBay], Google may show you some of the categories the sites has that you can shop for. I am not sure if this is new, but I’ve never seen this before….
It seems that YouTube is not showing up in Google News as often as it use to. Will Flannigan, the SEO Editor at the Wall Street Journal posted a chart from The Trisolute News Dashboard showing the drop in visibility experienced by YouTube in Google News. This means that YouTube videos and results are not…
As many of you know, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service has a plugin for Browse With Bing, which basically opens up Bing Search to the popular AI chat feature. But Browse with Bing in ChatGPT “has a different implementation of Search access,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft said. Mikhail Parakhin was asked, “So the search itself is fast,…
OpenAI is opening its GPT Store next week where you can publish apps and software that you built on top of OpenAI’s GPT to the public. OpenAI sent out emails yesterday announcing this news. Greg Sterling received the email and posted it on X – the email says: Dear GPT Builder, We want to let…
Right before the New Year, the Google search results volatility spiked big time. I posted the Google webmaster report for January 2024 this week. I published a big list of feature requests for Google Search Console. Google Groups will stop posting Usenet content to combat spam, which may clear up some spam in Google Search….
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. YouTube may have seen a drop in visibility in Google News. OpenAI is going to open the GPT store next week. ChatGPT’s browse with Bing searches Bing…
