Google has made it official and announced updates to Google Discover. That follow feature we covered a few weeks ago is now rolling out officially to all and Google confirmed it is showing more creator content from X, Instagram and YouTube Shorts within your Discover feed.
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Google Discover now displays social media posts from Instagram, X, and YouTube Shorts alongside traditional articles, creating a unified content feed. The post Google Discover Adds Social Media Posts & Follow Buttons appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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.