Google Testing Map Auto-Expansion Feature In Web Search
Google is testing having the map box automatically expand within the web search results, above or on the right side of the local pack results, when you begin to place your mouse cursor over the results. I tried several browsers to try to replicate this but I was unsuccessful. I found two examples of people
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Bing Chat Upgrade Rolling Out Reducing Refusals & Disengagements
Microsoft is rolling out version 98 of Bing Chat which some of you should start seeing later today or tomorrow. This upgrade reduces the number of times Bing Chat will refuse to create something and also a reduction of disengagement. Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, wrote on Twitter, “Starting to ship Prompt v98 today:
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Integrating SEO into the Newsroom
This edition of SEO for Google News is a special one. You may have seen that I wrote a guest newsletter for WTF is SEO?, the friendly rival newsletter dedicated to SEO for journalists. I wrote about crawl optimisation for news publishers for them, and I will be writing a much more technical follow-up to
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Bing AI Stories In Search Results
A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft Bing started to roll out “stories” in the search results side panel. Those stories are AI-generated stories, created by generative AI and not by people. I believe Shameem Adhikarath was the first to spot this change before Microsoft officially announced it. He shared a video cast with me on
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April 2023 Google Webmaster Report
Last month was jammed packed with Google search news including the Google March 2023 broad core update starting on March 15th and completing on March 28th. We had the end of the February 2023 product reviews update. Google Bard started to roll out, many are not impressed.
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Latest From Google’s John Mueller On Using AI To Write Content
So far, Google’s official stance on using AI to write content is just fine, assuming that content was not written to manipulate the search results. If the content is useful, helpful and quality, it doesn’t matter if a machine wrote it or a human. But John Mueller of Google doesn’t seem too positive about the
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Google Skills Food Cart
Here is a photo shared by Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology of the United Kingdom, from Chippenham of a food cart with a Google logo. She shared this on Twitter, and said “Fantastic to bring Google UK to the Cyber Confidence Centre in Chippenham today, improving over 70 small, local
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Keyword Clustering: 3 Simple Ways to Do It
For example, say you have these keywords: It’s clear that they all mean the same thing, so you don’t need to create different pages for each of them. You can just group and target them all on a single page.… Read more ›
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