Satisfaction with the AI overviews is increasing and Google will continue to evolve the experience this year, according to Sundar Pichai.
It is good to have choices but too many choices might not be good, said some wise man. Well, here is Google giving you 16 choices of bikes in the shopping ad spot at the top of the Google Search results.This was spotted by Mike Hardaker and he shared this screenshot with me on X - here it is:I tried to replicate it, but I was unable to. I suspect this is some sort of weird bug?I mean, I was able to see the normal carousel ads:I also saw the right side ads:And those new vertical tall ads:This...
Google has for a long time used AI to write some knowledge panels. But now Google is labeling some of these AI written knowledge panels with "Al overviews are experimental" as a disclaimer. This may show up for both SGE and non-SGE results, I believe.Johannes Beus at Sistrix posted about this, sharing this screenshot:You can see that one shows the AI written section and one does not. I tried it myself logged in to SGE and it did not give me the AI written knowledge panel:That being said, I do...
A study earlier this year by German academics verified what many users of Google search had long suspected: the search engine, once the gold standard for such activities, had been getting worse. The reason, the researchers concluded, is that too much low-quality content was being optimized to appear higher inRead Entire Article
Next time you turn to Google with a question, you may be given an “experimental” answer.
Next time you turn to Google with a question, you may be given an “experimental” answer.
In a complaint to the EU, email firm Tuta says it suddenly became much less visible in Google search.
Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground, he said.Everyone in the SEO/SEM space is talking about this article and I came back to the SEO on fire. If you have not read it yet, you should.Update: I added Google's statements to this below:I'll...
Meta AI will point users to web search results of Google or Microsoft Bing for queries that require the most up-to-date answers.
Google Senior VP Prabhakar Raghavan blames increasing competition, costs and regulation for a 'new operating reality'.
GOOGLE fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn't for politics (First column, 15th story, link)
Google's search engine was once the crown jewel of the Internet, but one executive's power grab led to its spectacular downfall, reports tech writer Edward Zitron in his newsletter article, titled "The Man Who Killed Google Search." In 2019, Google's ads team raised a "code yellow" alarm due to declining search revenue growth. — Read the rest