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.

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT Search several weeks ago, it was just available to paid users.

Is ChatGPT a viable alternative to Google?

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s comments suggest AI’s future direction, something SEOs should watch closely The post Google’s Ex-CEO on AI: What SEOs Should Pay Attention To appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

ChatGPT makes web search, voice features and maps free for all users, expanding access beyond Premium subscribers. The post ChatGPT Update: Free Web Search, New Voice & Maps Features appeared first on Search Engine Journal