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Google’s John Mueller confirmed that the GoogleProber and the GoogleProducer (which we covered here) are both legit Googlebot user agents and crawlers. “These are official Google requests with a user-agent specific to the Google News config in Publisher Center so if they are blocked the feeds you set up may not work properly,” John added. […]

Google Search now shows a carousel at the top of the search results for hotel results. Previously, Google showed a list view and only showed the carousel inside the hotel pack. Shay Haral from RankRanger spotted this recently and posted on Twitter saying, “Our SERP team spotted a new #GoogleAds Hotel carousel on mobile. Until

Google’s Danny Sullivan reiterated that when it comes to AI content, Google is fine with it, as long as the content is useful and written for people. If you are using AI to write spam, then that is against Google’s guidelines. But Google also added a new section to the people-first content section on “who,

Google now can show you a Merchant Center with Google Business Profile status dashboard in the search results. This is similar to how Google shows your local business profile in search, also similar to the Search Console dashboard and Google Ads summary box in search. This was spotted by Shameem Adhikarath and posted on Twitter,

Here is an interesting photo from the Google Netherlands office of what looks like a mobile home vehicle inside the office that is named Google Digitale Werkplaats. This was posted on Instagram but it doesn’t really say much more specifically to this photo. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day

A few weeks ago, we reported that Google dropped the podcasts carousel from the search results. Well, now Google confirmed the podcast carousel is 100% going away within the Google Search results. Google posted in the Google Podcast Manager the other day a message that reads, “Note: Google Search will stop showing podcast carousels by

Almost a year ago, Google began to integrate clipable coupons into Google Shopping. Well, now it seems that Google is testing showing those clipable coupons directly in Google Search, and not just in Google Shopping. Saad AK spotted this the other day and posted some videocasts of it in action on Twitter. Here is a

For the past few weeks, there have been reports via the Local Search Forum that Google has been removing emojis and special characters from business names within Google Business Profiles. This means if you try to add an emoji for your name to stand out in the Google local listings, Google may remove that emoji.

Microsoft has updated the Bing webmaster guidelines to support the updates with the new co-pilot, AI, ChatGPT-powered version of Bing. Bing updated the answers section and added a new section for “conversation mode and Bing image creator.” The current Bing webmaster guidelines is here and the section Bing updated was around here – it should