A recent investigation finds that Google’s Featured Snippets may display conflicting information from the same source material, depending on how users phrase their search queries. This raises concerns about the search engine’s ability to interpret content accurately. Sarah Presch, director at Dragon Metrics, discovered that Google’s Featured Snippets pull opposing statements from the same articles … Read more
Google Search’s translate feature may sometimes show images that match the word or words, depending on the language you are translating from and to. So if you want to translate the word baby into Spanish or French, Google will show baby photos but if you want to translate it into Hebrew or some other languages, … Read more
Google AI Overviews are triggered 10-20% less for signed-out users. While this percentage varies by industry, it is particularly noteworthy right now for ecommerce queries, which trigger AI Overviews 90% less often for signed-out users. Why we care. We’ve been closely watching the evolution of Google’s AI Overviews because it has the potential to disrupt … Read more
Google Search will soon label images as AI-generated, edited with photo editing software or if it was taken with a camera in the image search results. This label will be added to the about this image feature, according to The Verge who spoke to Laurie Richardson, vice president of trust and safety at Google. “Google … Read more
Google AI Overviews will now appear for all users in the United States, even if they are not signed into their Google account. Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that AI Overviews are available for signed-out users in the US after we noticed Google testing it this morning. What it looks like. I just … Read more
Google will begin showing photos in your Local Service Ads that come from your Local Service Ads profile. Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, wrote on X yesterday, “Starting today, we’ll begin selecting photos from your LSA profile to show in your ads.” Google also said adding photos can help improve your ad rank. “Adding photos … Read more
Google seems to be showing photos from reviews from actual users in the Google Shopping product image carousel. So when you click on a product listing and then swipe through the images, you may see actual photos submitted by users from their reviews. Saad AK spotted this and posted about it on X, he wrote, … Read more
Google Local Service Ads can now show the business’s phone number in the ad unit when you hover over your mouse cursor over the ad. It will then dynamically expand the ad to show the advertiser’s phone number. Khushal Bherwani noticed this and posted about this on X – I was able to replicate this, … Read more
Google’s AI Overviews now appear less than 7% of the time. This is one of 10 noteworthy findings from a new analysis of AI Overviews. This data was shared with Search Engine Land by enterprise SEO platform BrightEdge and its BrightEdge Generative Parser, which has been tracking and monitoring AI Overviews (and formerly Search Generative … Read more
Google is now showing Instagram posts within its Perspectives feature in the Google Search results. This started a week ago or so, and I received a number of posts about this since. The first person I noticed who spotted this was Gagan Ghotra, who posted this screenshot of this on X: Then others began to … Read more
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