Google is turning the local knowledge panels, your Google Business Profile, into an AI Overview listing. At the top of the local listing it says “AI Overview” and then there is a “Show more” button to expand, which brings you into the follow up AI Mode style chat interface.

Google published guidance for adding a Search profile badge as Search becomes a destination for following creators and publisher. The post Google Search Profile Badges Expose The Publisher Traffic Crisis appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google is rolling out cart transfer and checkout testing in the Merchant Center UCP hub, plus a YouTube ads beta and wider AI insights. The post Google UCP Update Lets Merchants Enable Cart Transfer To Site appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A model can know the right answer and still defer to a wrong tool result. What does that mean for your visibility report? The post It Was There A Minute Ago appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

A model can know the right answer and still defer to a wrong tool result.

Google left one thing out of the announcement around the new Search profiles features announced today, you can now add a Search profile badge to your website. This allows users/searchers to follow you directly from your website.

Google lowers Search profile eligibility to 10,000 followers for U.S.

Google has updated the Search profiles with a new article design, a single login to manage multiple Search profiles and only 10,000 followers on social platforms are required.

OpenAI is testing a new ad format in ChatGPT named Sponsored Agents. Sponsored Agents “let people start a conversation with a business-sponsored agent after clicking an ad in ChatGPT,” OpenAI wrote.

Three AI warnings landed in five days. Nicholas Carr described the pattern in 2008, and it changes how you plan next quarter.