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An updated AI Overviews experiment finds no measurable difference in bounce rates, time on site, or returns to search between clicks with and without summaries. The post Google AI Overviews Study Finds Lost Clicks Weren’t Lower Quality appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

OpenAI job listings and its advertising plans point to image, video, native and conversational ad formats for ChatGPT. The post OpenAI Hiring Points To Image & Video Ads Coming To ChatGPT 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. Google improved the recipe results in AI Mode, to make them more clickable…

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Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager who led Bing’s crawling and indexing team and championed IndexNow, has announced his retirement from Microsoft.

A global study of 6,100 organizations reveals most AI adoption is still surface-level, and the gap is widening fast. The post 88% Of Companies Use AI As A Tool, Only 12% Built A System appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Recipe bloggers really have Google’s ear, as Google has made yet another official change to its AI Mode recipe results. Google’s Robby Stein announced on X the launch of “a new visual treatment making it even easier to discover and visit recipe pages with AI Mode.” He added there are now “prominent links at the top of responses with useful details and images ‘” like the creator name, recipe ratings and number of ingredients.”

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 returns with 50% usage limits and a new classifier that may result in false positives. The post Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Is Back With New Usage Limits And Safeguards appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google AI Overviews can show the contents of the markdown files of web pages directly in the snippets within those AI Overviews. Google’s John Mueller called this “unexpected” and that this does not mean Google treats markdown files any differently than any other content page.