YouTube tests “Add Yours” sticker for Shorts, allowing creators to start trends and viewers to respond. The post New YouTube Feature Aims To Spark Viral Trends In Shorts appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that markup that SEOs and site owners control are generally not good signals The post Google Says These Are Not Good Signals appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google Search updated their documentation to reflect full support for labeling images that were AI-generated or manipulated The post Google Search Now Supports Labeling AI Generated Or Manipulated Images appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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.

This analysis explores the integration of shopping experiences into Google’s SERP features and evaluates their significance for ecommerce search queries. The post Critical SERP Features Of Google’s Shopping Marketplace appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A couple of years ago, I reported that Google has changed how your feeds work in Merchant Center for countries by removing the need to list a primary country and additional countries and replacing them with target countries.

Last month we reported that Google Ads began to allow some ads for opioid painkillers, like to discuss awareness and abuse. Well, Google decided to “indefinitely pausing this policy update” and not allow search ads for opioid painkillers.

Bing is testing adding nutritional details to images in its search results. It includes labeling food products with “high calcium,” “lean protein,” “anti-inflammatory,” and other labels.

Google Search now supports a new IPTC digital source type for images which seems to be about reading if an image was made in help with AI. Google added compositeWithTrainedAlgorithmicMedia to the IPTC photo metadata documentation this morning.

Google may be testing showing which country the site operates in with a country label attached to the search result snippet. In the example below, Google is showing a “South African” label with the country flag and the country written out at the top of the snippet next to the site name.