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

New data shows that AI search traffic overwhelmingly comes from desktop devices rather than mobile. The post Newly Released Data Shows Desktop AI Search Referrals Dominate appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Social media has become a frontline customer service channel. Here’s how brands can meet rising expectations and respond with care, speed, and strategy

This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility that spiked on June 4th. Have you heard of the Great Decoupling?

This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility that spiked on June 4th. Have you heard of the Great Decoupling? Did Google start indexing less in late May

Google is testing replacing the “Google Screened” label with a “Google Verified” label for the Local Service Ads. I am also seeing these results come up with no labels at all, outside of the normal “Sponsored” label.

Google is testing a new label on its search ads within the Google Search results that says “Learn more about Sponsored results.” This label is on the bottom right of the ad and neatly tucked under the listing in the gray background style.

When Google announced at Google I/O the launch of AI Mode, Google also announced a number of new features including the ability for Google to take your query and analyze complex datasets and create graphics based on that. Well, Google announced data visualizations and graphs for finance queries are now in AI Mode.

Google and Microsoft Bing has added short videos, also referred to as “Shorts” to their AI answers in search, AI Overviews and Copilot Answers. They display short videos in the answers that you can click on to view.

Google has updated the event structured data and recipe structured data help documentation. The changes include removing the online event properties, adding more examples and also saying that recipe markup has no impact on the image chosen for a text result image.