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Google: Inhalte im Knowledge Panel können von denen in Search Profiles abweichen
Die Angaben aus einem Google Search Profile werden nicht eins zu eins in das zugehörige Knowledge Panel übernommen.
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Google: Inhalte im Knowledge Panel können von denen in Search Profiles abweichen
Programming Note: Offline Monday For Yom Kippur 5787
This is a programming note: I will be 100% offline from Sunday night (September 20th) through Monday night (September 21st) for Yom Kippur. I am not scheduling any stories tomorrow, Monday, Yom Kippur; nothing will be posted.
Google Web Guide Classic Search Button Doesn't Take You To Classic Search
Google Search has this beta opt-in feature named Web Guide, it is like a mix of its AI search results interface and web search interface - in one. That being said, there seems to be a bug where, when you click the button that says "Classic search," it does not take you out of Web Guide and into classic search.
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Google Web Guide Classic Search Button Doesn't Take You To Classic Search
Google Search Console Crawl Stats Missing A Day Of Data: September 15th
The crawl stats report is missing a day of data again, this time, the missing data is from September 15th (it might be a day later for some of you on different time zones). That being said, this has happened numerous times before and Google tends to always restore the data.
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Google Search Console Crawl Stats Missing A Day Of Data: September 15th
Google Discover: Neuer 'Dive Deeper'-Button könnte Websites Traffic kosten
Google bereitet offenbar einen Test mit einem neuen Button in Discover vor, der in die KI-Suche leitet und damit zu weniger Klicks für die genannten Websites führen könnte.
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Google Discover: Neuer 'Dive Deeper'-Button könnte Websites Traffic kosten
AI Mode Tags: FollowUp, Generate, Layout, Entity List and @prompt_leaks.ignore
Explore the core AI mode tags used
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AI Mode Tags: FollowUp, Generate, Layout, Entity List and @prompt_leaks.ignore
Google Discover Tests Dive Deeper Feature
Google is testing a new feature in Google Discover named "Dive deeper." When you click on it, it does not take you to a publisher's article, instead, it takes you to an AI-generated short topic overview with links to some other articles (which do take you to the publisher) and community reaction.
Search News Buzz Video Recap: Unusual Google Search Ranking Volatility, Ad Tech Monopoly Remedies, AI Contribution Publisher Payouts & More
This week we covered the first week or so of Google's unusual ranking volatility only to see things spike up in a big way this week as well - something is up. Google's remedies are out for its ad tech monopoly ruling. Google has an AI contribution pilot for paying publishers...
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Unusual Google Search Ranking Volatility, Ad Tech Monopoly Remedies, AI Contribution Publisher Payouts & More
Google May Be More Successful In Blocking Scrapers & Tracking Tools
Google may be more successful in blocking AI scrapers, search scrapers and third-party tracking tools since around September 13th or so. This coincides with the September 4th and September 12th reversals we reported, and it also aligns with the methods Google has been using to block non-human behavior in its search results recently.
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Google May Be More Successful In Blocking Scrapers & Tracking Tools
Google Search Bar Results Page Testing AI Mode Button
Google is now testing adding the AI Mode button to the search bar when you are inside the search results page. Google has the AI Mode button almost everywhere else, but now we are seeing it added to the search bar, within the search results page, not just the home page.
Bing Also Asking To Verify You Are Human Before Showing Search Results
Microsoft Bing is also asking some searchers to verify they are human before showing them search results. Google is doing this a lot, in various forms, and now Bing was spotted doing this.
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Bing Also Asking To Verify You Are Human Before Showing Search Results
Google Ads Commerce Audience Sharing Help Document
Google has posted a new help document in the Google Ads help area named About commerce audience sharing through Google Ads. It explains that "Commerce audience sharing allows commerce partners, such as retailers or marketplaces, to share first-party data segments with their advertising partners, such as brands or sellers."
Google Merchant Center API Now Supports Product Reviews
Google updated the upload a product reviews data source to Merchant Center help document to now say that you can do this via the Merchant Center API. Previously, the document said, "API isn't currently supported for product reviews data sources." Now it says, "Add product reviews using API."
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Google Merchant Center API Now Supports Product Reviews
Google Now Requires You Label Adult Products In Ecommerce Feeds
Google has updated its guidelines for sites with explicit content to now specify that ecommerce sites must "label adult products in ecommerce feeds or markup." There is also a new section at the bottom of the help document titled, "For Google Shopping features."
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Google Now Requires You Label Adult Products In Ecommerce Feeds
Google Search Drops Free Product Listings From European Economic Area
Google Search has dropped the free product listings and carousel formats from the European Economic Area (EEA). This change is part of what the European Commission forced Google to do in these regions under the Digital Markets Act.
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Google Search Drops Free Product Listings From European Economic Area
Google Supports Local Business Queries In Aggregator & Supplier Search Units
Google has added local business query support to the aggregator and supplier units within Google Search. Google updated both the aggregator unit and supplier unit documentation to add "and local businesses" sprinkled throughout those documents.
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Google Supports Local Business Queries In Aggregator & Supplier Search Units
Google Search Profiles jetzt schon ab 10.000 Followern verfügbar
Google senkt die Mindest-Followerzahl für Search Profiles weiter: Bereits 10.000 Follower auf einer unterstützten Plattform genügen.
Google's Approach to Recursive Self-Improvement
Dream-RSI optimizes AI agent search strategies offline by replaying past discovery trees as exact simulators, reducing execution costs across discovery tasks.
3 new ways we're improving Search profiles for publishers
Search profile updates help publishers better highlight their content and connect with their audiences.
Fanout V2: From Paraphrastic Collapse to Complementary Set
Google Research introduced R4T, an RL-trained diffusion retriever that optimizes fan-out query sets for diversity and speed, achieving up to 20x latency speedups.
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