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I was getting a bit nostalgic after seeing Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella on stage introducing the new Bing on Tuesday. I checked back at my records after vaguely remembering him doing the same thing in 2008 for Live Search (now Bing). I found the above photo from a PubCon/WebmasterWorld conference in November in Las Vegas.

Google is testing a “trending” label in the people also ask box in the mobile search results. I guess it shows trending searches in the category of what other people are asking about that query. I cannot replicate this but Vijay Chauhan spotted this and posted a videocast of this on Twitter. Here is a

Famed YouTuber and excellent tech reviewer, Marques Brownlee, posted a poll on Twitter to his 6 million followers asking would you rather use Google as it exists now or Bing with ChatGPT added. The poll had over 320,000 submissions and about 59% said they would rather use Google now. Here is that poll on Twitter:

With all this talk about how search is going to be more useful and helpful with the new AI features in Bing, very few are talking about ads in that interface. Nicole Farley at Search Engine Land has a screenshot of an ad spotted in the ChatGPT interface within Bing’s new search results. Here is

I am seeing signs of another Google search ranking algorithm update just a few days after the February 4th Google search ranking update – both of these have not been confirmed by Google. This February 8th and 9th Google update may be even stronger than the previous update. I probably should have covered this yesterday,

What an insane week between the AI announcements, algorithm updates, content, and so much more. I start off talking about Google’s Bard announcement and a bit about the Paris announcement two days later. But Microsoft Bing stole the show with their demo of how Bing incorporates ChatGPT into Bing Search – it’s impressive. In fact,

Microsoft Bing is now tucking away its logo, hiding it from searchers, after you conduct a search using your mobile device. Bing will anchor you down to the top of the search box, moving the Microsoft Bing logo out of view, and focusing just on the search results page. Former Microsoft Bing employee, Duane Forrester,

Here are some photos I found on Instagram of some of the swanky, highly stylish, rooms at the Google Dublin office. Here is the embed to see more: This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share

Chris Long asked a poll on LinkedIn, asking “How important is the Yandex leak for SEO?” He had 529 responses and by the responses, it seems like most SEOs don’t find the leak too important. Only 10% said it is “extremely important” and 17% said it is “important.” Most people responded that the leak is