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Microsoft enhances Bing search with new language models, claiming to reduce costs while delivering faster, more accurate results. The post Bing Search Updates: Faster, More Precise Results appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google releases official documentation on managing faceted navigation, warning websites about SEO risks of poorly implemented filtering systems. The post Google Formalizes Decade-Old Faceted Navigation Guidelines appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Google clarifies banned uses of its generative AI, prohibiting deepfakes, explicit content, and deception, while allowing certain exceptions. The post Google Refreshes Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Kevin Indig shares his successes and challenges in this year’s review.

Jonathan Jones attended the Google Search Central Live event in Zurich last week and posted excellent and detailed notes about the event, including a bit more on the more often core updates.

Google’s John Mueller reiterated in a big way that SEOs and site owners should not spend time disavowing “toxic” links.

Google has repurposed its 2014 blog post on faceted navigation best practices (which we covered a decade ago) and created a new help document page named Managing crawling of faceted navigation URLs.

Google Merchant Center added a new field in the “Promotion conditions” section for “first order” discount. This seems to be for shopping ads set up in Merchant Center.