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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 is testing using AI to generate backgrounds automatically for your shopping campaign images…

While this month was not as busy as last month, it was still a pretty stressful month for a lot of site owners and SEOs. I was expecting more core updates this past month, but we had none, whereas the previous report, we covered three confirmed Google updates.

Google is sending emails to some advertisers letting them know that they can opt out of a test, where Google will use AI to automatically create backgrounds for their images in Google Shopping Ads.

Jordi Ribas, the Head of Search at Microsoft, touted Bing’s growth on social media (X and LinkedIn).

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Over the weekend Google launched Product Studio AI features to Google Business Profiles products. Now when you add/edit products on your local Google Business Profile, Google will let you “change the background scene of your product with Product Studio, a generative AI tool which helps you create engaging imagery to showcase your products,” Kara from Google said.

Google has this new map unit that is titled “Related places” and shows a map with a carousel beneath it of related places. This actually comes up for brand name searches, which isn’t great – why would you want Google to show competitor names when you search for a specific brand name.