Google seems to have stopped showing rich results for event markup in the Google search results. The event lists are no longer showing up event URLs in the Google search result snippet. This was first spotted by Christian Kunz who posted about this both on X and Mastodon and then wrote it up on his … Read more
Google is showing some folks an e-commerce or products section in their Google Discover feed. Glenn Gabe was shown a “clothing” section in his Discover feed that led to Google Shopping for more details. Glenn posted this screenshot on X and wrote, “Focus on ecommerce & interested in Discover? Interesting to see a “Clothing” module … Read more
Bing seems to be testing showing the number of people who visited a website listed in a search ad. The ad in the Bing Search results says X “visitors in the past month.” Here is a screenshot that Khushal Bherwani posted on X of this feature: Google has shown in search results if you visited … Read more
Google will soon block Bard’s shared conversations from appearing in Google Search. Google Bard recently came out with shared conversations that let users publicly share the chats they had with Bard. Soon after Google Search started to discover those URLs, crawl them, and index them. The issue. Gagan Ghotra posted on X a screenshot showing … Read more
TikTok Search has started showing external links to Google results. App researcher Radu Oncescu shared a screenshot on X (formerly known as Twitter) after noticing the new feature, which is being tested in several different markets across the world: The test shows a Google Search box appearing midway down the social platform’s search results page, … Read more
Bing Search now displays a section named “recent chat topics” for some searchers who have recently used Bing Chat. The area is added at the top of the search results page; it is titled “recent chat topics” and shows a Bing icon with the query in a bubble. Here is a screenshot of this feature … Read more
It seems like the Google Search feature for “things to know” has significantly dropped and is rarely showing now both on desktop and mobile. I am personally not seeing things to know boxes for my test queries and according to RankRanger, Things to know is no longer showing up for most, if not all, search … Read more
Google Search stopped showing How-to rich results on desktop yesterday. Google’s announcement. In an update to an Aug. 8 blog post about the reduction of visibility for HowTo and FAQ results, Google announced: “Continuing our efforts to simplify Google’s search results, we’re extending the How-to change to desktop as well. As of September 13, Google … Read more
Starting in July, some sites are seeing an increase in canonical pages errors shown in Google Search Console, with Google choosing different canonical pages than the ones declared by the website. In most cases, Google’s chosen canonical pages don’t make sense. It does look like this issue has resolved, but I thought it was worth … Read more
Google can now show six top stories in a uniform gird format in the top of the desktop Google Search results. We normally see four top stories but if we see more, it is not normally in a uniform grid format. I am not sure if this is new but Shalom Goodman thinks it is … Read more
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