Over the past week I’ve been hearing that some Google Business Profiles are vanishing or disappearing. I am told that Google is aware of the complaints and are investigating, but that was last week.

Ever want to find query data in Google Search Console where the query is a conversational query style? The long long queries that give you insight into how people may be finding your content via AI search engines, the ones where people talk their query and not type them?

Google recently rolled out the Live Search feature in the Gemini app. But now Google was caught testing that Live Search feature directly in the main Google Search app, the Google App.

WordPress co-founder cautioned that the FAIR project’s distributed plugin and theme repositories could undermine WordPress.org’s ability to manage trust and reliability The post WordPress Co-Founder Mullenweg’s Reaction To FAIR Project appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A Google research paper confirms that a local search indexing system has been in use for over a year in Search and Maps The post Google’s Local Job Type Algorithm Detailed In Research Paper appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

It seems the Google Search Console performance report for Google Discover has reported zero impressions and clicks starting Thursday, June 5th, or has underreported impressions and clicks significantly since that date. I am seeing a lot of complaints about this, and I am able to replicate this for several publishers I have GSC access with.

Google confirms that Recipe Rich Results and text search results select images using different criteria.

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

New data shows that AI search traffic overwhelmingly comes from desktop devices rather than mobile. The post Newly Released Data Shows Desktop AI Search Referrals Dominate appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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