OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has introduced a prototype of SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine. The launch has sparked considerable interest, leading to discussions about its potential to compete with Google. However, early studies and user feedback indicate that while SearchGPT shows promise, it has limitations and needs more refinement. Experts suggest it needs further … Read more
Thursday morning, Google unleashed the much anticipated August 2024 core update, to be followed by a very untimely ranking bug, that is still ongoing over 3 days later. With that being said, many SEOs and publishers have been busy documenting some of what they have been seeing since the August core update began rolling out. Caveats. … Read more
Google is incentivizing searchers to leave notes on Google Search and Google Discover results by offering them an “early adopter badge.” Google is showing this message in the Google Discover feed and it says, “Add a note to earn a badge.” Niki Robinson from Posts By Ghost shared this with me the other day. She … Read more
Starting at around 1:30am ET, Bing Search and the sites Microsoft Bing powers, have been experiencing global and widespread outages. This leads to many Bing Searches failing, and then third-party services that rely on Bing Search, such as Copilot for web and mobile, Copilot in Windows, ChatGPT internet search, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, also failing. Downdetector. … Read more
We reported on Saturday that the Google March 2024 core update seemed to have touched down on land, and we saw a lot of sites start to report major ranking drops, and the third-party tracking tools noticed big volatility. That all calmed on Sunday through today but we also had reports of reversals. We also … Read more
I am seeing early signs of a possible Google Search ranking algorithm update starting yesterday, February 28th, and into today, February 29th. The chatter started to spike yesterday amongst the SEO community and some of the third-party rank tracking tools are showing a spike in volatility. Again, Google has not confirmed an update in over … Read more
Today is Google’s official 25th birthday and to celebrate Google has a special Doodle that showcases some of Google’s early Google logos. It progresses to show you the old to the current official Google logos. Google wrote, “Let’s take a walk down memory lane to learn how we were born 25 years ago…” “Today’s Doodle … Read more
Google has shared some early feedback on how searchers and consumers use the new Search Generative Experience while expanding access to SGE in Japan and India. Google also officially launched link cards in SGE after weeks of testing. Early SGE Feedback from Google Hema Budaraju, Senior Director of Product Management from Google Search shared these … Read more
Gary Illyes from Google posted information on how Google Search handles the 103 early hints HTTP server status response. He said, “Googlebot will ignore the 103 and wait for the subsequent response.” This was posted on LinkedIn and wrote, “HTTP 103 should be handled gracefully by Googlebot. If the response from the server is formatted … Read more
Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism of this new search experience. John Mueller of Google also responded to some questions and complaints. I figured it … Read more
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