• Google’s “Circle to Search” Feature not Working for some Samsung Users

    The feature was first introduced for Pixel 8 and Galaxy S24 devices a few months back.

  • Google Search: SGE Now Brings AI-Generated Results for Users

    Google makes its AI-powered Search, SGE, available to users outside the beta.

  • Google quietly testing its AI search results among general users

    Google is testing versions of its generative AI-assisted search results to the general population, without an opt-in.

  • Google will start showing AI-powered search results to users who didn't opt in

    If you're in the US, you might see a new shaded section at the top of your Google Search results with a summary answering your inquiry, along with links for more information. That section, generated by Google's generative AI technology, used to appear only if you've opted into the Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the Search Labs platform. Now, according to Search Engine Land, Google has started adding the experience on a "subset of queries, on a small percentage of search traffic in the...

  • Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Spam Update Done, Patience With Core Update, Helpful Content Recoveries, Yahoo Search Coming & New Head Of Google Search

    This week we covered that the Google March 2024 spam update is done rolling out. Google says to wait for the March 2024 core update to be done before making changes. Google will collect feedback after the core and spam updates are done. We have yet to see any September 2023 helpful content recoveries, but there is still time to go. Google said publishing content in bulk is not considered spam. Google is having issues again with showing images in the search results. Google replaced the...

  • New Google Shopping & Maps Search Features

    Google announced a number of new(ish) shopping and maps/local features yesterday, a lot of them using AI features that Google likes to tout. There are glanceable AI-generated reviews, swipe left/right shopping, AI-generated product ideas, local trip ideas, recommendation lists for locations, and more.The truth is, most of these we covered as tests in the past, and now they are life - so you probably saw most of these. So I will recap them quickly.(1) Glanceable place highlights by Google's AI,...

  • Again, Images Not Showing For Some Google Search Result Snippets

    Google is once again investigating issues with recipe images and other images not showing for some sites within the Google Search results. We reported on several issues with recipe sites several weeks ago and it seems to be happening again for some of these sites.I am not sure if it is related to Google penalizing some recipe sites for improper use of recipe markup or if this is a bug with Google Search.There are complaints from mostly recipe sites but also from other sites about this issue.Here...

  • How To Remove A Subdomain Of A Subdomain Via Google Search Console

    Let's say you have a subdomain of a subdomain, such as sub.sub.domain.tld, how do you remove sub.sub.domain.tld from Google while keeping sub.domain.tld in the Google search results. The answer is to verify the sub.sub.domain.tld property directly in Search Console and remove just that property.This question came up on Reddit where the user asked, "I have a domain property GSC for my main site (which is a subdomain itself) and I want to use the removals tool to remove a number of sub-subdomains...

  • Google Removes Phone Numbers From Hotel Search Listings

    Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To be clear, the normal local listings, like pizza shops and so forth, do have the phone numbers but not the hotel listings for some reason.This seems to have started yesterday, Tuesday, March 19th. Lluc B. Penycate spotted it and notified me of this change on X. He wrote, "Google Business Profiles for hotels not showing telephone number (EU). Call button is still showing. Is it a bug?" I did as the...

  • Google Search Ads 360 gains retail media capabilities

    Google said this will increase efficiency and scale for retail media with self-service.

  • Google's Circle to Search feature will soon handle language translation

    Google just announced that it’s expanding its recently-launched Circle to Search tool to include language translation, as part of an update to various core services. Circle to Search, as the name suggests, already lets some Android users research stuff by drawing a circle around an object. The forthcoming language translation component won’t even require a drawn circle. Google says people will just have to long press the home button or the navigation bar and look for the translate icon. It’ll...

  • It Looks Like Google’s Been Testing “AI Overviews” in its Search Results

    A number of Google search users in the United states have been getting results with the "AI overview" feature.