Key ChatGPT updates mapped for marketers, highlighting AI-driven trends that helped shape search behavior and visibility strategies. The post Timeline Of ChatGPT Updates & Key Events appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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Google has published a new help document on the topic of Google Business Profile negative review extortion scams.

Google is testing a new section within the Google Ads advertising console named “Missed Growth Opportunities.” This section shows you the “performance you could’ve achieved in the last year if you’d adjusted your bids and budgets for campaigns with growth opportunities,” according to Google.

There are a nice number of reports of GA4, Google Analytics, showing a huge surge in organic search traffic over the past couple of days, but Google Search Console is not showing any increase, it remains flat. Some are suspecting this is the result of fake bot traffic not being filtered by GA4, but others are not sure.

Google has updated its Voice Search models to be powered by Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R). Google said this allows it to “gets answers straight from your spoken query without having to convert it to text first, resulting in a faster, more reliable search for everyone.”

The Microsoft Advertising blog posted about how to optimize for AI Search Answers. I thought it was weird to see this on the Microsoft Advertising blog and not on the Bing Search blog, because (a) it is an ad blog and (b) it was written by Krishna Madhavan, who is part of the Bing team, not ad team.

YouTube’s new Brand Pulse Report helps marketers measure full brand impact across paid ads, creator videos, and organic content using AI-powered insights. The post YouTube Launches Brand Pulse Report to Measure Full Brand Impact appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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

Google took 9 years to scale.