Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

It’s been almost two weeks since I last reported on a Google Search ranking update (unconfirmed) and that may be a recent record. But that being said, I am now seeing some signs of another unconfirmed Google update

Google announced a couple new Google Lens features; (1) they are expanding how AI Overviews show on Google Lens results and (2) Chrome and Google’s iOS app now let you search your screen with Google Lens.

Google Business Profiles now can add backgrounds to the images you upload to your Google Posts, using AI. Victoria Kroll from Google wrote that you can now “can create an engaging AI-generated background for the photos you plan to use in the post.”

Google announced three updates to its image and assets system including its generative AI can now generate people and faces.

Google is showing AI-generated review summaries on some top quality store pages. So when you click on a specific retailer or merchant’s top quality store link, at the top of the reviews you may see an AI-generated summary of those reviews.

Martin Split from Google said that having an audio version of a page or a blog post, does not impact your Google rankings. He said it is good for your users, but has no SEO impact.

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