Daily Search Forum Recap: August 31, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google Search Generative Experience now really launched links in its AI-powered answers...

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 30, 2023

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Google: If A Page Is Indexed Then It Was Rendered By Google (Even Refreshes)

Martin Splitt from the Google Search Relations team said on Twitter that if a page is indexed that means it was rendered. He added that page refreshes are also fully rendered by Google when indexed.

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Google Band Music Rooms

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 29, 2023

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Bing: We Release Search Features Globally (We Don't Discriminate)

Bing's CEO, Mikhail Parakhin, said that Bing does not release some features slower or delayed in some countries. He said they release "All countries at the same time," adding that they "don't discriminate."

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 28, 2023

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The Google August 2023 core update seemed to cause some big movement on some sites around Friday, August 25th...

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Google Search Generative Experience Local Results Gain More Link Cards

The new Google Search Generative Experience now shows more links and link cards in the local results interface for some users. The link cards show below the listing and also at the top right of the map interface in the SGE interface on both desktop and mobile.

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Bing Logo In Beach Sand From Flip Flops

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 25, 2023

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Google Ads Advertiser Console Recent Data Unaccessible, Google Says

Google Ads posted an issue where the Google Ads advertiser console may not be showing recent data. Google wrote yesterday, "The affected users are able to access Google Ads, but may not have access to the most recent data."

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Super Fancy Google Zurich Room

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 24, 2023

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Googlers spoke, "off the record...

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Google: A Page Doesn't Have To Be In The Top 10 Results To Be A Featured Snippet

Google's John Mueller said there is no rule that a page has to rank in the top ten search result positions for it to be considered eligible for a featured snippet position.

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Bing Chat NoSearch With Bing Disabled In The Wild

Bing Chat is now testing the nosearch feature, where Bing is disabled for Bing Chat responses. We first heard this was coming in early July but we were just waiting for a Bing Chat infrastructure update to happen before it was released.

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Google Local Pack Map Auto Expand Is Now Live

Since April, Google has been testing a local pack in the search results that auto-expands the map section when you hover your mouse cursor over it. This now seems to be live or rolling out fully.

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Google Jeweled Signage At Bay View Campus

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 23, 2023

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Bing Free Sydney T-Shirts & Bag Screen Printing

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2023

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Google Ads PMax Brand Safety Controls & Reporting Clarifications

Google's Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, posted a X/Twitter thread clarifying some of the confusion about brand safety controls & reporting supported in PMax, Performance Max campaigns.

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2023 Google NYC Police Style Scooter Rack

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2023

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There may have been a new unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update this weekend...

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Bing Search Tests Verified Label

Bing is testing a "Verified" label in the search result snippets. This is a new label that is placed next to the URL in the search result that says "verified."

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Google NYC Massage Chair

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 18, 2023

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Google SGE has dropped showing citations and links in the AI-generated answers...

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Bing Chat Pasting Images From Clipboard Into Query Box Coming August 28th

Bing Chat will soon allow you to copy and image to your clipboard and paste it directly into the query or search box. This will make it faster than manually uploading the image to Bing Chat.

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Google Tests Wider Larger Image Thumbnails In Search Result Snippets

Google is testing wider and larger image thumbnails on snippets in the desktop search results interface. The images look about twice as wide, maybe even more, the the normal image thumbnails you'd see Google display in the desktop search results.

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Google Blow Up Air Chair

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 17, 2023

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Google Ads Tests Paid Customer Support Options

Google is testing a paid version of customer support for its advertisers who use Google Ads. Google said this is a "paid pilot" where its "smallest customers can receive specialized, one-on-one support, tailored to their specific needs."

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Android Head Art At Google NYC

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 16, 2023

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Google SGE While Browsing - Search Generative Experience On The Browser

Google's next step for its Search Generative Experience is SGE while browsing. In Chrome on desktop and in the mobile Google app on iOS and Android, Google SGE can summarize longer web page content for you. Yea, it is similar to Bing Chat's Edge sidebar feature.

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Google Search Generative Experience Now Has Definition Overlay Links

Google has added those definition-based contextual links to some of the words placed in the Search Generative Experience answers and results. This is very similar to the featured snippet injected definition links but in this case, you can trigger a conversation in SGE when you ask for more details.

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Add Social Media Links To Your Google Business Profiles

Google seems to now support adding social media links to your Google Business Profiles. You can add your Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, TikTok, X (formerly known as Twitter), YouTube and other social links to your business profile.

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Moz Google Algorithm Temperature Dress At Mozcon

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 15, 2023

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Google: If You're Using AI To Write Your Content, It's Going To Be Rehashed From Other Sites

Google's John Mueller had a nice one-liner on Reddit again, this one he said "By definition (I'm simplifying), if you're using AI to write your content, it's going to be rehashed from other sites."

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Inside View Of The Colorful Google Glass Structure

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 14, 2023

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Google Ads Shopping Campaigns Enhanced CPC Deprecation

Google Ads is deprecating Shopping campaigns using Enhanced CPC starting one early October 2023. Google said any Shopping campaigns using Enhanced CPC will behave as if they are using Manual CPC bidding when deprecated.

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Google Chicago Whisky Fulton Palooza Event

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 11, 2023

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Google Tests Local Service Ads List View

Google is testing showing two local service ads in a list view, a change from it showing three local service ads in a carousel format. Google actually switched to three LSAs a year or so ago, up from two, and is now back to testing two.

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Google: Human Oversight For AI Generated Content Is Important

Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said it is important that there is human oversight when it comes to using AI-generated content. He said this on Twitter after speaking at the Google Search Central Live event in San Francisco last night.

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New: Bing Search Select Text To Search Bing Chat

We previously reported how Bing Chat lets you select text on the Bing search results to conduct another search. Now Bing is expanding that to also let you search directly on Bing Chat, not just Bing Search.

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Google: Text To HTML Ratio Makes No Sense For SEO & Ignore It

Google's John Mueller is at it again, saying that text-to-HTML ratios are not a thing for SEO. He said on Reddit, "It makes absolutely no sense at all for SEO," and you should "ignore any report that gives you a text:html ratio."

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Google Tests Colored +Topics Search Bar Refinements

Google is testing using colors for the +topic search bar refinements, those bubble buttons you sometimes get under this search bar in Google Search. I am seeing normal white buttons, then grey, blue and green, but I am sure there are more.

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iJustine With Google's Peter The Greeter

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 10, 2023

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Google Business Profiles Adds "Fix Photo That Doesn't Show" To Appeal Form

Google has added a new option in the Google Business Profile appeal for "Fix photo that doesn't show." This means you can submit a support request for when you know a photo is not showing up on your Google Business Profile and you want it to.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2023

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Google will show fewer HowTo and FAQ rich results in search going forward...

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Google Ads Gains New Ads & Reporting Insights For Upcoming Holidays

Google announced several new features for the upcoming holiday season; yea, it is coming... These features include Customer Acquisition with High Value optimization, local ad changes, new product reporting, and more visibility for your Google shipping ads.

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Google Jeep Buggy

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 8, 2023

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Google Search Major League Baseball "Recent Featured Highlights"

Google has a new search feature titled "recent featured highlights" for Major League Baseball players. It showcases stats for recent games, short video clips and more.

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Google Carnival Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 7, 2023

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OpenAI's ChatGPT New Web Crawler - GPTBot

OpenAI, the folks behind ChatGPT, have published information on its web crawler named GPTBot. You can now see if OpenAI is crawling your site, how much so, and you can disallow access to all or part of your site with the robots.txt protocol.

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Google Metal Stairs

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 4, 2023

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Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update - August 3-4 (Unconfirmed)

It has been a full 9 days since I last reported about a Google Search ranking algorithm update and now I am seeing signs of another one starting yesterday, August 3rd through today, August 4th.

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Finally: Bing Chat Works On Chrome, Firefox and Other Browsers

This morning Bing Chat started to work across non-Edge browsers. That means, if you are logged into Bing, you can use Bing Chat on Chrome and Firefox and likely other browsers.

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LEGO Dinosaur Enclosed In Podium Casing At Google Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 3, 2023

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Google Ads Outages Impacting Majority Of Advertisers

Google just confirmed an issue with Google Ads that has been impacting advertisers all day. Advertisers are getting notices that read "Google Ads can't complete your request right now. Please reload this page to try again."

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Google Search Console Performance Reporting Not Tracking Search Generative Experience Yet

With the new Google Search Generative Experience, we are all hopeful that Google will give us reporting and filtering in Search Console. This way, we can track how well our sites are performing in SGE vs normal Google Search. But it seems like Search Console is not reporting on SGE at all.

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Google Business Profile Tests Generative AI To Help Owners Write Business Descriptions

Google Business Profiles is testing using generative AI to help business owners write descriptions about their businesses. When you edit your business profile in Google, and then edit your business description, Google is showing some owners a AI-powered business description.

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Rusty Android Figurine

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 2, 2023

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Google Tests New Local Search Ad Format

About a month ago, I spotted a new ad format in the Google Search results that had this local pack vibe. I shared it around, seeing if anyone else would notice it but I didn't hear back. The new ad format looks like a local result but has a sponsored label.

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Google Removes @ID from Site Name Markup Documentation

Google has removed the @id mentions in the site name documentation calling the use of @id "unneeded." If you compare the old version of the page to the new version, you will see the example code that shows @id lines were removed.

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Google Super G Borg Style Sign

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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 1, 2023

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Google: Content Written By Tapping Into Popular Searches Is Likely Not People-First Content

Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, commented about a popular tactic content marketers use before writing content - using trending keyword tools to find topics that are trending or popular now. Sullivan wrote "Content with the primary purpose of tapping into popular searches is probably not really people-first and wouldn't be recommended for long-term success."

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Google: We Don't Archive Our Own Search Result Pages

Google's John Mueller was asked if Google stores a permanent or semi-permanent copy of its own search result pages for future reference. John replied basically saying no, because it is not an efficient use of Google's resources.

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GooglePlex Swimming Pool

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