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.

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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.”

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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.

Google is testing the placement of AI-generated summaries in Google Ads sponsored results, right below the description. Google did add the disclaimer to the ad, “Google Al responses are generated independently and can make mistakes, so double-check responses.”

Google has always allowed you to request that content be removed from Google Search via the legal DMCA request form.

Google is adding AI-generated content, generated by Gemini, to Google AdSense ad intents formatted ads. That means when a user interacts with the AdSense ad unit, a link, anchor or chip, it opens a dialog that shows the user ads and Gemini-generated content related to the ad intent clicked.