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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Jason Howell on the AI Inside podcast had Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, on a few weeks ago. In that interview, he said that the methodologies used by the click studies done on AI Overviews can be “questioned.” He added, “from our point of view the web is thriving.”

Google’s Jeff Dean, the lead of Google AI and a Google veteran since 1999, highlighted Google’s index freshness as one of its key advantages in its AI services. On X, Jeff posted, “Index freshness is something I and many others at Google have worked on for many years.”

Google Ads is testing a new version of the segment dropdown menu within the advertiser console. The new version is a more compact version that displays more options on your screen simultaneously.

Google appears to be reintroducing the “product status change” report within Google Merchant Center. This displays the historical changes of your product statuses and is a feature that was greatly missed.

Microsoft is testing a new image carousel within the Bing Search results. This image carousel shows two rows of images, instead of one, has related searches with an arrow at the top of the carousel and a new larger squared off arrow format.