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Duane Forrester, a former Microsoft and Bing employee, has acquired a new Bing mug to replace his Bing Webmaster Tools cup, from Fabrice Canel. This transaction went down at PubCon a few weeks ago. It was shared on Twitter and I had to highlight this event. Here is the fun chain: Get ready for a […]

Google Search is testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label for products and images that you can rotate within the search results. I guess either 3D or 360 labels would work for this, and I guess Google is testing the alternative. Here is a GIF of this, which was captured by Saad AK

Google may be testing a new search result snippet that blends a typical search result snippet with a local snippet result. This one has the favicon, sitename, URL, title and image but it removed the description portion and replaced it with local features, like map, directions, call and hours. This was spotted by Manish Chauhan

A few weeks ago, Microsoft added three tones or modes of responses to the Bing Chat feature; balanced, creative and precise. Yesterday, Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Bing, explained the thinking Microsoft Bing has behind when to use each Bing Chat mode. He said laid out on Twitter Microsoft’s “current thinking about Bing Chat modes.”

Google will be updating its Merchant Center policy to allow ads for electric bikes that go up to 28 mph. This is an increase from the max speed of 15.5 mph from May 2022. This new policy is effective as of this month, March 2023. Google wrote, “effective March 2023, our “Unsupported Shopping content” policy

Google released the March 2023 broad core update, so far this has been a very fast and big update. Bing said they’ve been using the new GPT-4 technology for the past several weeks. Bing also hinted that the Bing Search answers would be replaced with Chat-based answers. Bing’s sidebar with Bing Chat is now in

Last September at the Search On event, Google announced a new personalized shopping results based on your previous shopping habits with the ability to specify which brands you want. That feature was supposedly launched later in 2022 but I think this is the first time I’ve seen it in the wild. When you search for

Here is a photo I took back in 2006 that I recently stumbled upon when looking for another photo. It is from August 2006 at the old Google Dance event, you can see old Googlebots playing soccer at the GooglePlex controlled by Googlers in lab coats. My favorite part, the flip phone taking a photo.

Microsoft Advertising’s broad match modifier keywords are now being served as broad match keywords instead of phrase match on Bing Search. This is effective as of yesterday, March 15, 2023. Microsoft posted a note about this saying “Please note: All broad match modifier keywords for search ads now serve as broad match keywords instead of