Last week, Google hosted the Google Marketing Live event at the new GooglePlex, the Bay View campus. Here is a photo or two from that event. The new office is pretty slick, by the way. This photo above is from Twitter, here is another: It’s #GML Day! I’m here at the Bay View Campus in […]

Google has noted that the Search Generative Experience as a labs experiment runs through the end of this year, through December 2023. If you go to labs.google.com, you might see it yourself. Here is a screenshot: I assume before then it might have started to be released in the main Google.com search results. I have

Google has updated its SafeSearch, adult content filter, help documentation to say you should not show the age gate prompt to Googlebot. Google wrote, “For content behind a mandatory age gate, we recommend allowing Googlebot to crawl your content without triggering the age gate.” Google wants to ensure Googlebot can see the content behind the

Bing has a feature in the Bing video search results to see “more like this” on video overlays. Plus, there are a few more features here on the video landing page in Bing Video search. Frank Sandtmann posted about this on Mastodon and wrote, “Bing seems to have a new feature on their video SERPs:

Instead of just showing citations in the footer of the response and answers in Bing Chat, Bing is now showing anchor text hyperlinks as responses. In fact, if you watch the answer being built, Bing Chat will create the actual HTML hyperlink. Here is what the anchor text-based hyperlink looks like in the output of

Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism of this new search experience. John Mueller of Google also responded to some questions and complaints. I figured it

I went to Menachem Ani’s office, JXT Group, to chat all things paid search. We first spoke about he first got into the Google Ads business, he was doing Google Ads since the early times. He started in the space doing ads for eBay listings, using Froogle and Google AdWords in 2003. We then went

Today, like previous years, Google has posted a grayed-out logo and a small US flag, to commemorate Memorial Day in the US. I will not be posting stories today, to respect the holiday. Here is what it looks like: Google also has a grayed-put logo at the top left of its search results page. Google