Last month we shared the spam efforts the Google Maps team announced – but did you know that in 2024 Google had almost one billion reviews published within Google Maps? That is 999 million reviews, 752 million photos and videos and 94 million place edits published just in 2024.
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Google Maps 2024: 999 Million Reviews & 752 Million Photos / Videos Published
Apple announced this week that it partnered with MICHELIN Guide; The Infatuation and Golf Digest to provide “insights, ratings, and reviews from expert sources” within Apple Maps.
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Apple Maps Adds Insights, Ratings & Reviews From More Sources
Robby Stein, VP of Product at Google Search, confirmed Google is working on making it easier to share AI Overviews within Google Search and AI Mode responses.
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Google Working To Make It Easier To Share AI Overviews & AI Mode
Microsoft is testing shading the site names, the brand names, of retailers in the Bing Shopping search results. So the name Amazon is in a blue shaded background color as opposed to just saying Amazon.com.
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Bing Shopping Tests Shading Site Names
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Google is testing a “Shuffle” button in some of its AI generated answers within the Google Search results. When you click the shuffle button, it seems to redo or change up the response Google’s AI gives you.
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Google Search AI Shuffle Button
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Google engineer’s testimony gives an overview of how quality scoring works and reveals a hidden Chrome-based popularity signal. The post Googler’s Deposition Offers View Of Google’s Ranking Systems appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Googler’s Deposition Offers View Of Google’s Ranking Systems via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Google’s Search Relations team shares which HTTP status codes matter most for SEO. Learn how redirects, 1xx codes, and network errors impact your site’s performance. The post HTTP Status Codes Google Cares About (And Those It Ignores) appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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HTTP Status Codes Google Cares About (And Those It Ignores) via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2025
Tariffs affect product costs and ad performance. This month’s Ask A PPC outlines their direct impact on PPC metrics, conversion rates, and bidding strategies. The post Ask A PPC: How Will The Tariffs Impact My PPC Campaigns?
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Ask A PPC: How Will The Tariffs Impact My PPC Campaigns? via @sejournal, @navahf
Another Google court document from the DOJ trial showed that Google said it is currently rethinking its entire search stack, from the ground up, with LLMs playing a more fundamental role.
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Google Rethinking Search Stack From Ground Up With LLMs