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. Yelp sued Google, the search marketing industry found it funny. Google has a new tag diagnostic and consent management setup for Google Ads. Google says it does…
AI is impacting every aspect of Google, including SEO and Google Ads. In a recent article in Search Engine Land, Anna Crowe masterfully discussed the impact of generative AI on SEO. It’s a great article, and I encourage you to read it if you haven’t already. I want to expand on what Crowe wrote, focusing…
Gary Illyes from Google explained how Google Search may or may not handle special characters within Google Search. He explained this in the latest Google SEO office hours at the 16:10 mark. Gary was asked, “How does Google handle special characters like the superscript e in search results.” For example, a Latin letter E with…
Google Product Studio, which is part of Google Merchant Center Next, now works in the UK, India, and Japan. Google also added file upload support to Product Studio and additional seasonal-themed templates. Google announced “merchants with Merchant Center Next accounts based in the US, UK, CA, AU, IN, and JP” can now access Google Product…
Many people have an incredibly low bar for what they consider to be “great” content that deserves to rank in Google Search. So often, I see people bemoaning the fact that their content is great and high-quality. They just can’t understand why it isn’t ranking. But inevitably, when I go look at that great content,…
X is rolling out its ChatGPT rival, Grok, to Premium+ subscribers. Grok was developed by xAI, the artificial intelligence venture founded by Elon Musk in July 2023. It is available to users in the U.S. Availability in other countries is expected soon. Why we care. Generative AI is now a crucial tool for SEO and…
Crucial evidence from the Google antitrust trial has been removed from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) website. The DOJ had been publishing key documents, including Google’s private emails, memos, charts and internal presentations as it presented its case – without informing Judge Amit Mehta first. When the search engine raised a complaint, the judge…
Open AI has disabled the Bing search feature it has added to its ChatGPT AI service. “We’ve disabled the Browse with Bing beta feature out of an abundance of caution while we fix this in order to do right by content owners,” Open AI posted. Open AI said it is working on bringing the feature…
Google quietly expanded availability of Audience Signal Targeting for App campaigns, a feature previously only available for Performance Max campaigns. While Google hasn’t made an official announcement, advertisers are reporting the ability to use Audience Signal Targeting in their App campaigns. Why it matters. This update gives advertisers more control over their App campaign targeting,…
It is widely recognized that artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant strides in recent years, leading to remarkable achievements and breakthrough outcomes. However, it is not true that AI can attain equally impressive results across all tasks. For instance, while AI can surpass human performance in certain visual tasks, such as facial recognition, it can…