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Both Semrush and RankRanger are reporting several point drops in the percentage of time a people also ask box shows up in the Google search results. The drop started on Friday, February 24th, a few days after the rollout of the February 2023 product reviews update. Here is the Semrush report showing a drop from […]

Microsoft Bing seems to be incorporating more of its Chat AI features into answer boxes in the main search results. Bing is testing a “summarized” box that gives you summary answers from X sources and the web. This was spotted by Citizen Kimi on Twitter and also Brodie Clark on Twitter, here are some screenshots:

Google has been testing blocking news in Google Search on about 4% of Canadian users. Google said, “We’re briefly testing potential product responses to Bill C-18 that impact a very small percentage of Canadian users.” I reported on this on Search Engine Land last week after Google sent me this statement: We’re briefly testing potential

Yesterday, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced at PubCon that Bing Webmaster Tools would get two new features. First is the Bing Chat integration, and the second is the index coverage report. The Bing Chat integration, where the Bing Webmaster Tools performance report will allow you to see impressions, click, click-through rates, and more from

I am seeing a much bigger spike in chatter within the SEO community this morning around another Google search ranking algorithm update. It might be related to the ongoing Google February 2023 product reviews update or it might be something new. Right now, the tools and the chatter within the community are pretty extreme. The

I found a photo on Instagram of YouTuber, Sophie Foster, doing pottery at Google’s YouTube office. I am not sure what event this was for, or if there was any event, but hey, pottery is fun, right? Bit too messy for me but I prefer touching sterile keyboards… This post is part of our daily

We have seen people inside this boat at the Kirkland, Seattle office a couple of times, but here is a photo more of the outside that I recently found on Instagram. Google also has row boats in the London office, and we’ve seen other Google boats over the years. I don’t think this boat has

Gary Illyes from Google said in his Q&A session yesterday at PubCon that while recovering from a Google helpful content update is possible, you can’t always get back to where you were. Previously Google explained that the helpful content update system is automated and regularly evaluates content. So the algorithm constantly looks at your content