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Google announced a preview, a labs experiment, of its all-new search engine, it is calling Google Search Generative Experience. This is where Google brings in generative AI into the search interface and makes a search interface designed more for a youthful audience. I covered this in super detail on Search Engine Land so here I […]

Google also announced an upcoming update to the helpful content system (update) that will be released in the “coming months.” This update will find content in hard-to-find places such as forum threads, blogs and other places to show more “hidden gems” in Google Search. Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liasion, wrote on Twitter, “We’re also

As expected, although it took a lot longer than we thought, Google announced it will be replacing the FID metric with the INP metric for its Core Web Vitals. This won’t happen until March 2024, but it will happen. Martin Splitt from Google announced, “the Chrome team decided to promote INP as the new Core

I don’t buy lots of clothing but if I had to shop somewhere, I bet I could find some good deals at this Google Men’s retail store. We have seen many examples over the years of stores, normally not in the US, using the Google logo. Here is one more, although this one seems old

Google Search is testing adding a “show more” button on the “people also ask” section of its search results. When you click on the button, it will load more results underneath it. Normally, the people also ask does not have this “show more” button. This was spotted by Punit who posted a video of this

Google’s John Mueller had one of his good oneliners again. He posted a reply on Twitter saying, “something can be high-quality content with a lot of information for users and still be of low value for the web.” This was in response to a question that was asked of him on Twitter, let me just

Google I/O kicks off today and we are all expecting really big Google Search-related news today. Typically, I/O is focused on everything but core search but today, we are expecting the all-new search engine, Magi, and a bunch of new AI-focused search features. You can watch the keynote, which starts at 1 pm ET today,

Did you know that some of the improvements being made to the Bing Chat AI models will lead to improvements to the Bing Search core ranking algorithms? Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, said this on Twitter yesterday. Glenn Gabe asked him “So AI model improvements will ultimately improve Bing’s core search algo, but the

Over the past month or so, we’ve been seeing a huge drop in the number of FAQ rich results Google has been displaying both on mobile search and now desktop. Google has not commented or said anything on the topic, that is until now. John Mueller of Google posted an unofficial statement on Mastodon saying