OpenAI announced shopping research within ChatGPT, “a new experience in ChatGPT that does the research for you to help you find the right products,” as OpenAI put it. This is clearly OpenAI’s response to Google’s AI Mode and Gemini 3 shopping experiences.

Google announced that it will be reinstating the suspended hotels in Hotel Center and removing the Suspended Hotels” tab in the “Properties” page of your Hotel Center account.

Google is now showing the “What to know” section within web search, not just AI Mode, within the product summary bar on the right side. This shows up when you click on a product.

Can you imagine you manage hundreds of clients in your Google Ads Manager Accounts (MCC) gets hijacked. Or your Google Account and your ad campaigns gets hijacked due to an MCC hijack? Well, this stuff happens and it can be incredibly scary and painful.

Google is testing removing the “more” results button for Local Service Ads within the web search results. Instead, you are given the option to expand the results to 8 in total but not click through to see more LSA listings.

OpenAI launched shopping research in ChatGPT, a tool that creates personalized buyer’s guides. Available to all logged-in users.

Seasonality adjustments during Black Friday and Cyber Monday often inflate costs and reduce ROAS. Here’s what Optmyzr’s three-year study reveals for PPC teams. The post What Optmyzr’s Three-Year Study Reveals About Seasonality Adjustments During BFCM appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller pushes back on building LLM-only Markdown or JSON pages for LLMs, saying clean HTML and structured data should come first. The post Google’s Mueller Questions Need For LLM-Only Markdown Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal

The EU’s Digital Omnibus proposal would relax parts of GDPR and the AI Act. Here’s what to watch.

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