Google seems to be rolling out colorful sections in the knowledge panels. Sometimes you will see gray, sometimes blue, sometimes orange and sometimes green and maybe more. We saw this on mobile over a decade ago, so this does seem new, especially on desktop.

Google updated its image SEO best practices and Google Discover documentation to clarify how Google picks a preferred image thumbnail for Google Search and Google Discover.

Google has updated or is updating a number of Google Ads and Google Merchant Center policies. This goes across alcohol, prescription drugs, gambling and games and government documents and services policies.

Critical vulnerability in WordPress User Registration & Membership plugin enables unauthenticated attackers to obtain administrator role. The post WordPress User Registration & Membership Plugin Vulnerability appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google has published a new help document titled About the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and UCP-powered checkout feature on Google. This was published in the Google Merchant Center help documentation section.

Google’s Titans architecture and MIRAS framework enable AI to handle massive amounts of data and work faster. The post Google’s Titans And MIRAS: Significant Advancement In Long-Context AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s landing page generator patent is limited to low conversion shopping pages, product feeds and advertising.

New data finds AI Overviews often cite sources beyond page one. Fan-out queries may help explain why, and YouTube appears frequently in citations.

Google updated its Image SEO and Discover documentation to explain how schema markup and the og:image meta tag influence thumbnail selection. The post Google Clarifies How It Picks Thumbnails For Search, Discover 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. There is a Google patent document that implies Google Search might send searchers to AI-generated page of your site…