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Google Search is testing up and down arrow buttons in the search bar, so you can click to toggle down or up to autocomplete search suggestions. You can also use the arrow up and down on your keyword, but the buttons may be a new touch. I am not able to replicate it, I do […]

Microsoft had an event yesterday in NYC showing off some new features for Bing Chat, touting some growth figures and announcing it removed the waitlist for the co-pilot feature. I covered this in more detail on Search Engine Land but honestly, I covered many of these feature announcements on this site already, so you are

Remember those old Nokia mobile phones? Do you remember Google web search being tested on those devices? Jon Erlichman from Bloomberg shared an old video of this in action on Twitter the other day. Here it is: Early days of web search on a phone: pic.twitter.com/Ndkx2JvfU0 — Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) April 21, 2023 This post

What is better than having me at your conference? Having a cardboard version of me. I mean, have attended my share of search marketing conferences and I have never seen this many people so happy to see me. So Mordy Oberstein’s Wix corn hole game cut out of me seemed to do the job. People

Microsoft Advertising announced many new changes and information yesterday, including a new campaign-level change history report, new code-free conversions for Smart Campaigns accounts with Multi-platform, postponing the Enhanced CPC change, and more. (1) Change history for campaign-level conversions: Microsoft Advertising will be updating the change history report to include campaign-level conversions. This will show you

Google Discover generally should not show content or images that Google’s SafeSearch filter would block. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, said this on Twitter a few weeks ago but this was implied by previous statements from other Googlers over the years. Danny Sullivan was asked by Lily Ray, “Is the below article on SafeSearch filtering

Google has updated its help documentation for canonicalization. It removed a line about syndicated content and also updated a line about noindex to prevent selection of a canonical page within a single site. But Google added a whole section around not using a canonical tag for syndicated content anymore; more on that below. If you

Over the past couple of days, I have been seeing signs of a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. It may have started on May 1st, with the chatter within the SEO community growing throughout yesterday, May 2nd. I don’t think this is the residue from the April 2023 reviews update that officially completed on

Google launched highlighting of text within featured snippets some time ago, after a ton of testing. We saw it also in people also ask and now we are seeing it in the “things to know” section. Here is a screenshot showing how the “Things to know” section on the right side, when expanded, can highlight