For the past several months, we’ve been seeing signs that the Google Maps and local questions and answers feature is being phased out.

Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed on X that ads can show above/below the AI Overviews or within the AI Overviews but not in both positions at the same time. She wrote, “Your ad could trigger to show either above/below AIO or within AIO, but not both at this time.”

Google is updating its Unapproved Substances section of the Healthcare and Medicines policy in June to allow the promotion and serving ads for Melatonin.

Google is testing another search results snippet hover effect. This one will color the background a light gray shadow like color. We’ve seen variations of this before (see articles below).

Microsoft is testing using alternative names and titles for the related searches section within the Bing Search results. I was able to trigger four alternatives to the normal related searches header.

Google’s Thematic Search patent describes a system that closely parallels how AI Mode’s Query Fan-Out technique generates summaries The post Google’s Query Fan-Out Patent: Thematic Search appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Struggling to prove content’s revenue impact?

Google AI Mode traffic bug fixed after organic search was mislabeled as direct traffic in Analytics. The post Google Fixes AI Mode Traffic Attribution Bug appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

New study of 25,000 searches shows that top Google rankings still matter for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI search results. The post Is SEO Still Relevant In The AI Era

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’s CEO, Sundar Pichai…