Several weeks ago, Google announced it would test changes to the search results for hotels in order to see how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe would impact hotels. Well, that test is wrapped and the results were not good for hotels, says Google.

Google rolls out December 2024 core update, weeks after November update, capping off a year of notable algorithm changes. The post Google Rolls Out December 2024 Core Update 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. Google is testing using Gemini 2.0 to power AI Overviews

Google launches 24-hour data view in Search Console, offering near real-time insights for website performance monitoring. The post Google Launches New ’24 Hours’ View In Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google announced its “new AI model” named Gemini 2.0 and with that confirmed Google has begun testing using Gemini 2.0 to power AI Overviews in Google Search. Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, said the improved AI Overviews can “tackle more complex topics and multi-step questions, including advanced math equations, multimodal queries and coding.”

Google Ads is testing a new asset type named video. It seems Google may be testing allowing advertisers to add video assets to their search ads and other Google Ads campaigns.

Apple released a ton of new Apple Intelligence features yesterday, including what I’ve been waiting to play with – Apple Visual Intelligence. It seems, at least for now, that Apple Visual Intelligence works with ChatGPT and Google Search but I was not able to trigger it for Apple Maps like the initial demo showed.

After months of testing, and after Google was the first to make this move, Bing has dropped support for its cache operator and the cache link in Bing Search.

We’ve seen our share of Sitelinks tests in Google Search.