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New study: Product content claims up to 70% of AI search citations.

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

Your brand’s next impression could be through a chatbot.

Google released a new Google Ads ad strength guide and best practices document. The document should help you improve your overall ad strength in Google Ads.

Google is testing yet another search feature that generates new queries on Google Search. This one is named “Ask a follow-up” and they are sported with the Gemini stars next to them.

Microsoft is testing yet another variation for its favicons in the Bing Search snippets. This one uses a dark gray background, with a circle formatted favicon, next to the search result snippets.

Google is experimenting more with shopping carousels, this time, showing products and then which articles are recommending those products.

Microsoft is testing trending icons on Bing Search’s related searches section. We’ve seen both Google and Bing use trending icons in various search features over the years, but now Bing is testing them on the related searches feature.

This is a programming note that I am completely offline for the Passover holiday today. In fact, this post was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today – so you know I am offline. Passover is/was Sunday and Monday…