Research shows how people can keep using Google while making fewer traditional searches and clicking through to fewer websites.

Google Business Profiles seems to be adding a fifth way to verify your business, this new method is by submitting a photo of your business location. The other methods are phone or text, email, live video call or a postcard in the mail.

Google has expanded access to Waze Ads beyond the United States and to a total of 42 countries. Google updated the PMax help documents in the Google Ads help center with this new information. It now says, “Waze Ads are currently available across select global markets…”

Google Ads is testing another variation of expandable sitelinks, where sitelinks are collapsed by default and a number indicator shows how many more are available. You can then click to expand the sitelinks to show more.

Microsoft is testing bolding the https portion of the URLs in the Bing Search results. We’ve seen Microsoft test HTTPS labels in various forms over the years, including using lock icons.

Google Ads is now pushing notifications to advertisers for recommendations they have previously dismissed.

We got a number of updates coming from OpenAI about ChatGPT Ads and the ChatGPT Ads Manager, we also suspect that the shopping results coming from ChatGPT only come from those who submit product feeds. The other updates include a plugin for integration with ChatGPT and/or Codex, custom audience improvements, conversion matching updates, ad unit formats, budget pacing, more conversion optimization options and expansion of the platform.

We got a number of updates coming from OpenAI about ChatGPT Ads and the ChatGPT Ads Manager, we also suspect that the shopping results coming from ChatGPT only come from those who submit product feeds.

Google’s latest Search integration is another step to a future where users get things done without traditional search results. The post Google’s New Weather AI In Search Continues Shift Away From 10 Blue Links appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Ten Speed’s citation study shows product pages beating Reddit nearly six to one for B2B buyers, verified only after six pointed fact-check questions. The post Product Pages Get 24% Of AI Citations, Reddit & YouTube 4% appeared first on Search Engine Journal .