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

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Google Discover may be showing X posts (formerly Twitter tweets) from accounts you follow and not from other accounts that you do not follow. Discover has shown X/Twitter posts for a while now, on occasion, but I didn’t know Google could show X posts from only accounts you follow.

OpenAI announced it made improvements to search in ChatGPT.

Markham Erickson, Vice President, Government Affairs and Public Policy at Google told The Verge that searchers want AI Overviews, “contextual answers and summaries,” over links to publishers. But to help the ecosystem and the value exchange, Google will continue to provide links.

Earlier this year, we saw some signs that the Google local Questions and Answers feature seemed to be slowly going away, not just in India but other places. Well, now, Google sent out an email saying it will “be discontinuing the My Business Q&A API.”

Google is testing a new way to lift a suspension within Google Merchant Center. Some can now do video verification, the same way they can with verifying their Google Business Profiles.

A Google Search bug from this morning led to the search results being overwhelmed with just ads. This is obviously a Google Search serving bug where Google had a glitch and was unable to serve the proper amount of organic/free results.

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