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Greg Sterling ran a poll on Twitter asking, “Are you now branching out from Google as a search/discovery tool?” Almost 30% of those who answered, which are primarily SEOs/SEms, said they are, while the other 70% said they are sticking with Google 99% of the time. I’ll be honest, I am not using ChatGPT, Bing […]

We saw Google label some car types as electric and hybrid a year ago. Now Google has this car carousel in the mobile search that lets you filter by many other car types. Saad AK posted this on Twitter and I am able to replicate myself by searching for [cars] on mobile: You are given

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that just because a site appears to be doing super well in terms of Google ranking and SEO today that it won’t one day degrade in value. John added, “just because something’s in Google News now doesn’t mean it’ll be there forever.” Sometimes sites just lose their luster, the

Google may be testing only showing images in the local finder, the local search results in Google Maps, for listings that are ads. The rest of the listings, the one without ads, may only show a map image but not an image from the business profile. This was spotted by Justin Mosebach posted about this

Here is an interesting-looking super G logo sign from the Google Singapore. The super G logo has leaves and other vegetation-like growth art on it. It is like the logo is growing organically. I spotted this one on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find

We know the Google Indexing API should be used for just job postings and live-streaming content. If you use it for other content, it just won’t do what you want. A Black Hat World thread seems to confirm that it doesn’t work for other content types. The SEOs in that thread are discussing whether it

Several months ago, Google launched a feature to show those logged into their Google Ads account a section in web search named “Your Google Ad Summary.” It seems Google is now expanding that section to let you edit some ads and apply some recommendations. Sujit Shukla spotted this for a Google Ads campaign he manages

Every year Google releases its web spam report showing how much better the search company got at fighting search spam. This year is no different but here, Google is showcasing how successful SpamBrain was at making big strides in fighting search spam. Here are some high level numbers that Google shared in its 2022 report:

Google’s John Mueller was asked about his feelings on the Google March 2023 broad core update and if he can honestly not say that the “update messed the SERP a bit up.” John responded saying, “I’ve seen a ranking update landing as “oops, everything is wrong.” There’s always room for improvement, I don’t think the