Google says users have selected 345,000 Preferred Sources, which now appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode alongside new link carousels. The post Google Preferred Sources Hit 345K, Expand Into AI Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

YouTube is moving AI disclosure labels to more visible spots and adding automatic detection for undisclosed photorealistic AI content on videos. The post YouTube Now Auto-Detects AI Content, Labels It For Viewers appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Reframing “problems” as “opportunities” isn’t corporate spin. It’s the psychological condition that makes enterprise change actually happen

There are two interviews that is probably worth a listen of Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai and Google’s SVP of Knowledge & Information, out of Google I/O and Google Marketing Live. If you listen, you can see the direction Google Search is headed – and duh, it is AI.

Google is testing letting searchers check for real-time stock, inventory, of products through the local pack in the search results. There is this new button being tested next to view “more places” in the local pack that says, “Check real-time stock.”

Google is testing letting searchers check for real-time stock, inventory, of products through the local pack in the search results.

Google has confirmed another bug with the Search Console Discover performance report on May 21st.

Google is rolling out what it calls Real-Time Policy Reviews within Google Ads for Responsive Search Ads and rolling out to other campaign types later in the year. Google wrote, “this feature provides instant feedback during the ad creation process, significantly reducing the time it takes for your ads to begin serving.”

New data out of Similarweb says that since OpenAI began surfacing more prominent links to brands in the ChatGPT answers, referral traffic is up 150%. Also pageviews per visit is up 24% and time on site is up 11%.