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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.