Google announces Search improvements coming in 2025, powered by Gemini 2.0, expanding AI Overviews to handle complex queries.
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Google Announces Search Updates Powered By Gemini 2.0 via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
New study shows Google’s AI Overviews appear in nearly half of searches, influencing how users interact with search results.
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Study: Google AI Overviews Appear In 47% Of Search Results via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 11, 2024
This morning we reported about weirdness with the Search Console performance report date picker.
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Google Search Console New Date Picker & 24-Hour View
Google is testing adding the ability to track prices, share and save products you are looking at in Google Search and Google Shopping. Google added these buttons for track price, share and save after you click on an individual product within the Google Search results.
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Google Shopping Product Details With Track Price, Save & Share Buttons
Google Search Console has a bug with its date picker, when you want to compare two date ranges. It seems to default to the last month of data in most cases, not all.
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Google Search Console Performance Report Compare Dates Bug
Google’s video search results seem to be testing removing the YouTube channel name and video upload date from the search results snippet. I am not sure why Google would remove these important details from the search listings, but I guess Google likes to test these things.
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Google Video Search Tests Dropping YouTube Channel & Upload Date
Google has posted a new help document in the Google Merchant Center help center documenting the annotations and badges available both in free and paid Google Shopping results. Google wrote, “This article provides an overview of the different types of annotations and badges.”
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Google Merchant Center / Shopping Annotations & Badges Documented
Google now supports even more categories for more types of hours for your business listing. Google added a number of new hour types for religious institutions and restaurants.
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Google Business Profiles Adds More Hours Categories
Discover Microsoft’s latest updates on Copilot and ads, including enhanced ad integration, Performance Max optimization, and insights into AI-driven conversational search. The post Insights From Microsoft Ads Partners: Copilot And PMax appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Insights From Microsoft Ads Partners: Copilot And PMax via @sejournal, @LisaRocksSEM