Google is testing a large blue visit button on its mobile search results interface. The button is hard to miss and shows up under the sitelinks for some searchers. Again, it is a test, so many of you will likely not be able to replicate it.
Google is testing a large blue visit button on its mobile search results interface. The button is hard to miss and shows up under the sitelinks for some searchers. Again, it is a test, so many of you will likely not be able to replicate it.
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Google has grayed out, muted, its logo, for Memorial Day, again this year. It also applied an American flag under the search box with the message, “Honoring those who sacrificed.” That links to the search results for [Memorial Day] on Google Search.
AI Overviews is meant to quickly deliver information to searchers, but it is delivering misinformation that ranges from plain bizarre to perilous to public health. Miriam rounds up some of the oddest AI overviews that have been spotted, explains why we’re being exposed to this feature and focuses on a famous reality-check anecdote.
Google’s new AI search overviews stumble with inaccurate, bizarre responses, prompting mainstream media attention.
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
We had more Google search ranking volatility in the middle of the week after some calming for a few days. Google Ads will soon show within the Google AI Overview, plus we covered a lot more ad news
Google has once again said that its enforcement of the site reputation abuse policy is still only being done through manual actions and not algorithmically. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liasion, said this on X yesterday, “We have not gone live with algorithmic actions on site reputation abuse.”
Google Search can now index Electronic Publication, the .epub, file type. Google added EPUB as a supported filetype to the file types indexable by Google help documentation.
Every day now, I see several screenshots on X of embarrassing and sometimes harmful AI Overviews within the Google Search results interface.