Google is testing swapping out the normal spelled-out Google logo with the Super G (that is what Google calls it) logo at the top of the Google Search results page. I find it weird but I guess it can work? This was spotted by Punit who posted screenshots and a video on Mastodon: Here is … Read more
Microsoft seems to be testing replacing the hard to see ad label with a longer sponsored label in the Bing Search results. So instead of it saying “ad” next to the search ads, it is testing showing “sponsored” text next to the search ads. Google uses “Sponsored” text next to its ads, at least currently. … Read more
Google Search may be replacing the heading for “X (Twitter)” posts with “Latest Posts from.” This would be a step to removing more X branding from the Google Search results page. This was spotted by both Gagan Ghotra on X and SERPAlerts on X. He is a screenshot from Brodie Clark: With the X posts: … Read more
Google may be testing replacing the “related searches” box with the “people also search for” box. The two are functionally not that different, from what I can tell. Shameem Adhikarath spotted this and posted several examples of the “related searches” now being titled “people also search for” in the Google Search results interface. He posted … Read more
Google seems to be testing a “comments” button in the Google Discover and Google Search interface. It might be Google testing replacing the notes button for search notes with comments, to see if it gets more engagement. This was spotted by both Shameem Adhikarath on X and Khushal Bherwani on X – here is one … Read more
Google officially clarified that it has no plans to replace its advertising sales staff with AI. Philipp Schindler, Google’s senior vice president and chief business officer, emphasized that recent organizational restructures were geared towards enhancing the efficiency of its services. Additionally, he highlighted that the ongoing development of new AI solutions is to enable its … Read more
June 19, 2018 | Posted by Shay Harel In what was all but one fell swoop, Google has largely done away with Video Thumbnails on the desktop SERP. In its place, the search engine is favoring a video carousel that has until this point been mainly relegated to mobile. Perfectly merging two worlds, … Read more
Google Search is testing replacing the 3D label with a 360 label for products and images that you can rotate within the search results. I guess either 3D or 360 labels would work for this, and I guess Google is testing the alternative. Here is a GIF of this, which was captured by Saad AK … Read more
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